The ambitious plan to connect the San Fernando Valley to West L.A. is one final vote by the Metro Board away from giving the multi-billion-dollar project the go-ahead.

The ambitious 218-mile project will not be ready for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

Spanish police said Monday that at least 40 people died and 159 were injured in a high-speed train collision in southern Spain.

The ambitious plan to connect the San Fernando Valley to West L.A. is one final vote by the Metro Board away from giving the multi-billion-dollar project the go-ahead.

Members of the media are invited to attend a keynote address by Martin Imbleau, President and Chief Executive Officer, Alto, at the Empire Club of Canada, where he will provide an update on the Toronto–Québec City high-speed rail project and detail the public consultations that launch this month.

MONTREAL — Canada’s high-speed rail project could could involve the construction of a lengthy tunnels i Montreal, the company responsible for the project says in a route description on its website — which could greatly increase the cost of the project.

Public consultations start Wednesday on an ambitious project being sold as a nation-building "generational investment." But big questions remain about the planned high-speed rail corridor between Toronto and Quebec City,

The high-speed rail proposal, which supplanted a high-frequency rail proposal from Via Rail, is meant to improve train travel through the most densely populated part of the country by not only increase the speed at which the trains travel, but by separating passenger and freight trains.