Ralph Vartabedian

A business plan approved by the California High-Speed Rail Authority last week did not account for a contractor’s warning of a two-year delay.

The Biden administration is said to be mulling a $3-trillion infrastructure plan it may soon unveil. California transportation agencies are onboard.

Seven years after awarding a low-bid high-speed rail contract to a Spanish firm, California is paying for that decision in delays and cost overruns in the San Joaquin Valley.

The bullet train link between Bakersfield and Merced would have a single track to save money.

California’s bullet train authority will ask the Legislature for $4.1 billion to complete Central Valley link.

A top bullet train contractor is contradicting claims by the California high-speed rail authority that the construction pace of the project is on target.

California’s high-speed rail project will have a friendlier federal relationship when Joe Biden takes office as president. But no one is expecting a bailout from “Amtrak Joe.”

Commission finds Roy Hill did not violate state conflict-of-interest laws following allegations that he helped modify a contract for a company in which he held stock.

Costs are rising for California’s high-speed rail project, focused on the Central Valley, as it confronts reduced revenue from the state’s cap-and-trade program.

A bridge that was supposed to take a year is incomplete after four, partly because of corrosion and other problems involving California’s high-speed-rail contractors.