California has gotten closer to high-speed rail, according to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. Amtrak and the California High-Speed Rail Authority have developed trains capable of operating up to 220 miles an hour for service on both the East and West Coasts, and the California authority received final bids to build the first leg of the state’s high-speed rail project, 29 miles of track in the Central Valley. “This brings the state’s largest infrastructure undertaking in history one step closer to breaking ground later this year,” Mr. LaHood wrote in his Fast Lane blog.
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