The good news is that California will almost certainly have a high-speed rail line someday. The bad news is that it may look a lot like “Whoosh.” Whoosh is the name of the new high-speed rail line that opened last October on the Indonesian island of Java. Its existence is a breakthrough—Whoosh is the first bullet train in Southeast Asia and the Southern Hemisphere. Similarly, California’s train could be the first truly high-speed service in North America. (Amtrak’s Acela and Florida’s Brightline...
President Biden touted a high-speed rail project that will connect Las Vegas with Southern California, funded by billions of federal dollars, as he campaigned in Nevada on Tuesday. “Guess what? It's coming,” he told supporters at a campaign event in Reno. “Well over a billion dollars, man. And you're going to be able to get to — not that anybody wants to get to Los Angeles, but people from Los Angeles want to get to Nevada. Well, they’ll do it in two hours instead of four and take tens of...
With the first of the NCAA men’s March Madness Sweet 16 games scheduled to tip off on Thursday, California’s High-Speed Rail Authority decided to capitalize on the nation’s college basketball fervor with a particularly head-scratching post on social media. The High-Speed Rail Authority appears to have altered a notional map of what the U.S. would look like with a nationwide high-speed rail network. Whereas the original imaginary chart simply outlined train routes, the agency posted a version...
California’s high-speed rail train could feature an indoor play area for children and seating options that would allow people to meet as a group or cocoon in a reading nook. Recently released drawings of the imagined interior, station platforms and a video walk-through of a model train car offered a glimpse into the future of the transit system and its promise to transform the state. But how — and if — it will ever live up to that promise to connect Los Angeles to San Francisco by train in less...
A planned $5 billion medical campus in North Las Vegas is coming back under the direction of city government two years after the project was announced.
Trump Media & Technology Group - the firm behind the former US president's Truth Social site - is expected to list on New York's Nasdaq.
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Ex-US president planning to list Trump Media & Technology Group if merger with special purpose acquisition company goes aheadHow does Trump stand to make $3bn from Truth Social being listed on the market?Donald Trump’s wealth is set to increase by about $3.4bn (£2.7bn) if a shareholder vote on Friday paves the way for the float of his Trump Media business.The former US president is preparing to list Trump Media & Technology Group, which operates the Truth Social tech platform, via a merger with...
The CHIPS Act is designed to boost semiconductor manufacturing in the US and improve innovation in the country, especially with the threat of a Chinese invasion constantly hanging over Taiwan, home of TSMC.Read Entire Article
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Owain Hammett-George drove at speeds of up to 78mph on a 30mph road in his £21,000 Alfa Romeo which was bought for him by his father for passing his driving test.
PLDT rode on Savannah Davison’s powerful effort as it repulsed Farm Fresh, 25-9, 25-13, 25-21, yesterday to join Creamline on top in the Premier Volleyball League All-Filipino Conference at the Ynares Center Antipolo.