California high-speed rail consultants billed taxpayers for late-night rides
CBS California Investigates obtained receipts behind the watchdog's findings of wasteful spending, revealing previously undisclosed connections to the high-speed rail CEO.
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CBS California Investigates obtained receipts behind the watchdog's findings of wasteful spending, revealing previously undisclosed connections to the high-speed rail CEO.
A watchdog report on wasteful consultant travel became a real-world test of the so-called high-speed rail "anti-transparency" law.
California Republican legislators are demanding an investigation into payments by state's high-speed rail project to consultants that a state watchdog last week called "wasteful and unallowable."
The California High-Speed Rail Authority paid out more than half a million dollars to consultants for wasteful expenses such as first-class flights and trips to nightclubs, a state watchdog said.
Newsom quietly enacted the controversial part of a high-speed rail oversight bill and may now veto the part his watchdog says he needs for transparecy and accountability, sources tell CBS California.
The watchdog's review warns the $4 billion federal funding loss now leaves the project needing billions in financing within 16 months — as the rail authority acknowledges for the first time that it still has no train contract, has cut its order from six trains to three, and has dropped the "Buy America" requirement.
Records reveal California twice missed deadlines to buy the trains at the center of a federal funding fight — then quietly dropped its lawsuit weeks after missing its new deadline.
The Trump administration is once again seeking to end federal funding for California's high-speed rail project, following a lengthy review of the state's progress that found "no viable path" to completion.
Gov. Gavin Newsom last week announced two appointments of Bay Area residents, one to a state rail authority and the other to a state commission.
France's high-speed rail network was hit by serious acts of criminal vandalism just hours before the Paris Olympics opening ceremony, officials say.
The Biden administration said it will give more than $6 billion to a pair of high-speed electric rail routes in the West.
The California high speed rail governing board approved the final environmental documents Thursday for the San Jose-to-San Francisco section, completing clearance of the project's Northern California leg.
California's High Speed Rail project was cheered by Gilroy officials who envision building a transit hub around the rail stop. Len Ramirez reports. (4-29-22)
High-speed rail between San Jose and the Central Valley took a step closer to becoming reality after the final environmental impact report was certified Thursday.
A new poll suggests strong public support for California's ambitious high-speed rail project, but the challenges of stretching it to San Jose are daunting.
The construction of California's high-speed rail system is at a "turning point" as a stretch of the project through the Central Valley is on track for completion in the next few years, the project's chief executive said Tuesday.
Ongoing negotiations between the California legislature and transportation officials continues to delay the state's high-speed rail project, with the most recent hurdle being a debate over whether the train should be high speed when it launches.
Delays in securing land for California's high-speed rail project will push completion of a 65-mile section of the line in Kings County until at least April 2025 — nearly two years after the date the state included in a business plan adopted last week, a newspaper reported Monday.
California is again pushing back the deadline and raising the cost for its high-speed rail project, this time asking the Biden administration for a one-year extension on completing construction on a section of track in the Central Valley.
The California High-Speed Rail Authority on Wednesday bumped its overall cost estimate for completing the rail line between San Francisco and Los Angeles to $80.3 billion.
The Trump administration will not immediately give $1 billion it revoked from California's high-speed rail project to another project, according to a legal agreement reached Wednesday between the two.
California sued Tuesday to block the Trump administration from cancelling nearly $1 billion for the state's high-speed rail project, escalating the state's feud with the federal government.
The Trump administration cancelled nearly $1 billion in federal money for California's high-speed rail project Thursday.
Leaders of California's high-speed rail project told the Trump administration its plans to withhold $3.5 billion in federal money for the project was "legally indefensible" and "disastrous policy."
The U.S. Department of Transportation announced Tuesday it would cancel nearly a billion dollars in grant funds yet to be paid to the California high-speed rail project.
