California
The federal Interstate Commerce Commission is expected to hand down a decision this week that could either sound the death knell for CalTrain, the commuter rail service that once ran from Oxnard to Los Angeles, or open negotiations that could lead to resumption of service.
March 24, 1985
The first of 63 new two-level steel passenger cars for CalTrain, California’s popular commuter service between San Jose and San Francisco, are coming off the assembly line in a waterfront warehouse at Pier 50.
April 21, 1985
In 1982, CalTrain, the state’s ill-fated Oxnard-to-Los Angeles commuter train, was launched with champagne and balloons and predictions of a new age of commuter rail transit.
June 5, 1988
Officials of cities in eastern Ventura County will ask the City of Los Angeles to help pay to revive CalTrain, the Oxnard-to-Los Angeles commuter rail service that ended operations two years ago.
April 5, 1985
A revived CalTrain commuter service in the San Fernando Valley and Ventura County would encounter the same financial and legal problems that forced the cancellation of the line four years ago, transportation officials said Thursday.
Aug. 28, 1987
A luxury overnight train between Los Angeles and San Francisco would be a railway red-eye, but with private accommodations for people to sleep through the night.
April 18, 2023
The extension’s approval represents a significant step in making California’s high-speed bullet train between L.A. and San Francisco a reality.
Aug. 22, 2022
San Jose is one of several locations where flood risks have heightened considerably as new storms barrel into Northern California, swelling rivers.
Jan. 8, 2023
More than 400,000 customers were without power in California as the latest powerful winter storm pushed through, elevating flooding danger.
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Earlier this year, Governor Gavin Newsom announced an award of more than $2.5 billion to 16 ongoing public transportation projects in the first wave of a historic infusion of state funding to expand transit and passenger rail service throughout the state, helping to cut planet-warming pollution.
March 19, 2023