[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.

[!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.

[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.

[guitarplayer1953]

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

[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....

[SnuffaBolshevik]

I’m holding out for High Speed Stagecoach.

[Olog-hai]

No railroad that's going to operate at a mere 150 mph should cost $34 million per mile to build.

It's government regulation that destroyed the railroads (especially their passenger operations), as well as government competition from the other transportation modes by public (federal, centralized) support of that infrastructure (which no conservative should support; the "trust funds" were supposed to have been expired decades ago). Let airlines pay their own way in terms of airports; same goes for highways, which should all be tolled; no more gas taxes or airline ticket taxes. At least the railroad companies still own and maintain their own infrastructure; you never hear of trucking companies owning and operating highways for their own personal use; nor do you hear of truck drivers being "decertified" when they drive 1 mph over the speed limit (this is one of many things that railroad engineers have to be wary of).

[rockinqsranch]

“The board decision lists the cost of the project at $6.5 billion,.........”

If we look to the past to see the future we should allow actually about $11 billion IMO.

[PghBaldy]

Reid and the rest of the Dems, if they wish to not lie, should explain that the jobs are construction jobs, and probably not even 32,000 of them, and say how many DAYS or WEEKS or MONTHS of jobs they truly are. When I think of something or someone creating a job, I don’t consider that they may last less than a year.

[GeronL]

insanity

They always overstate the number of jobs by a factor of 5 and the economic impact and understate the costs to the taxpayers.

All this train will do is allow perverts to hitch a ride to the brothels.