Reid Applauds Decision Allowing DesertXpress Project to Move Forward

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ^ | October 26, 2011 | Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid

[mdittmar]

And now,the rest of the story,The company plans to operate trains traveling at 150 mph on dual tracks. The board decision lists the cost of the project at $6.5 billion, an increase from the $6 billion estimates previously given by DesertXpress.

The company is pursuing a $4.9 billion federal loan to build the line.

[DustyMoment]

. . . for DesertXpress to build and operate a 190-mile high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and Southern California that could create more than 32,000 Nevada jobs.

I could jump tall buildings in a single bound if I were Superman, too!! I might be a gazillionaire if I am Bill Gates!!

What a load of BS!!!

[muawiyah]

This is a total waste of money.

[cicero2k]

The DesertXpress Project will connect Las Vegas to Victorville in Southern California, and later the California high-speed rail system.

And this is where the plan fails. I've driven from LV to Victorville. It's easy, mindless driving and I have my car at both ends. A train does nothing. The only exception may be peak holiday weekends like New Years or Presidents. Not enough to sustain the train, not matter the subsidy.

It will end up like much of the TGV in France, pretty but useless.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks mdittmar.

...high-speed rail project that will create more than 32,000 Nevada jobs...

[mdittmar]

This just in,Officials with the proposed high-speed train linking Las Vegas and Southern California want to borrow about $6 billion from the federal government.

[Jonty30]

32,000 jobs from a single line that will run from something like Reno to San Diego or something like that?

[!1776!]

Can they use this thing to ship nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain?

The only way this boondoggle is going to creat 32,000 jobs is if they hammer iron into track by hand and count the endless beauracracy and costs that will be required to get "environmental approval"...

What a joke.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks mdittmar.

train, train:

• Maglev train funds being sought again
• Las Vegas Monorail bankrupt; Ambac big exposure
• Reid's Gambling Train
• Levitating train from L.A. to Las Vegas gets boost

Long line of bull:

• Obama declares 'I love Vegas' in attempt to make amends for past remarks about the city
• Seeking to appease city officials, Obama declares 'I love Vegas'
• Obama to tout housing help Friday in Las Vegas
• Obama promotes clean energy, stimulus in Nevada

The real Zero:

• Mayor 'bans' Barack Obama from Las Vegas for sins against the city
• Las Vegas Mayor Goodman rejects Obama invitation
• Las Vegas Mayor Goodman rejects Obama invitation (better put some ice on that)
• Las Vegas Monorail could seek partnership with Chinese
• Las Vegas Mayor Goodman rejects Obama invitation
• Las Vegas mayor snubs Obama
• Ritz-Carlton in Las Vegas to Close Down-(Blames Obama Directly!)
• Penn Jillette: Obama's 'stupid' jab at Vegas
• COMMENTS ABOUT OBAMA: Mayor's remarks stir backlash
• Las Vegas Mayor Goodman: I'll Give Obama the Boot Back to Washington
• Wayne Root: Obama vs. Vegas: "Bring It On!"
• What Does the President Have Against Sin City?
• LVMS invites President Obama to see Las Vegas from new perspective (NASCAR)
• Goodman: Obama 'A Slow Learner'
• Las Vegas mayor: Obama is "a real slow learner"; Update: Reid questioning Obama's patriotism ?
• President Obama singles out Las Vegas, Mayor calls him "slow learner" (Obama apologizes)
• President Obama clarifies Las Vegas comment (Sort of)
• President Obama Again Criticizes Trips to Las Vegas (Harry Reid: Lay off Las Vegas!)
• VIDEO: Obama Criticizes Las Vegas Again
• Reid: Don't Blame Obama For Vegas Blacklisting
• Mayor: Obama should apologize for Vegas trips quip

[muawiyah]

The mail airport at las Vegas handled 31,229,925 passengers in the last year.

You'd need 68 High Speed Rail Trains per day to handle that load ~ and then most of the passengers would find it necessary to get to an airport to go elsewhere in the country anyway.

Rail is a concept whose time has come, and for the most part, gone. Today we use automobiles and aircraft in this country for passenger traffic.

[mdittmar]

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is a joke,but I'm not laughing.

[ronnie raygun]

We laugh but it’s not funny. We need to set up a penitentiary for all concerned

[SunkenCiv]

Prostitution’s legal, so 32,000 new hookers is probably about right.

[Jonty30]

I suppose if you’re including all the support jobs. :)

[Loyal Sedition]

To write the full details of Harry's dirty deeds, socialist agenda, and two-faced activity would require a thick book.

I personally "Fact Checked" his re-election claim to having "saved" 22,000 jobs at "City Center" in Las Vegas. As usual Harry was being misleading.

The truth is that "City Center" only employs 12,000 people currently. The claimed "22,000 jobs saved" were temporary, existing only during construction.

This is typical of his boasting, no doubt every other one of his claims is similarly skewed, NOT an actual fact!

This boondoggle rail project will be the same, but worse. It will never turn a profit, the nations taxpayers will not only pay to build it, they will be forced to subsidize it for perpetuity!

Not a great way to make Las Vegas more popular.

[pops88]

The drive from Las Vegas to CA is definitely easy and mindless. While I’d be happy to have the lost CA drivers off the roads here, seriously, who is going to take the train when it’s not that long a drive? Well, there is one demographic I can think of which we can do without. It’s just for money to put in union worker’s pockets.

[RedMDer]

Attention FReepers! - Blast

[guitarplayer1953]

I was under the impression that no one was going to Vegas. So will this be rail service to a ghost town?

[az_gila]

The mail airport at las Vegas handled 31,229,925 passengers in the last year.
You'd need 68 High Speed Rail Trains per day to handle that load ~ and then most of the passengers would find it necessary to get to an airport to go elsewhere in the country anyway.

Rail is a concept whose time has come, and for the most part, gone. Today we use automobiles and aircraft in this country for passenger traffic

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Yes.... but the real question is “how many of those planes/people come from LAX?”

With the LA freeway congestion most folks consider themselves almost there when they finally get through the traffic to Victorville, especially on a Friday afternoon...:^)

It's a concept whose economic time has not yet come.

[martinidon]

So how much will the tickets cost? I can fly from Phx to Las Vegas on Southwest for $39 each way when they have promotions. You can get the same price from LAX. Unless the tickets are half that who would ride the rail (besides those scared of flying). I see another Amtrak boondoggle where the government has to subsidize this for many years to come. If this was in such demand there would be no need to borrow money from the government....