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A high-speed rail from L.A. to Las Vegas? China says it's partnering with U.S. to build
LA Times ^ | September 17, 2015 | Julie Makinen

Posted on 09/17/2015 3:27:31 PM PDT by don-o

A long-discussed high-speed rail project linking Southern California and Las Vegas will be built by a U.S.-China joint venture, Chinese officials said Thursday, though many details about the agreement remained hazy.

Announcement of cooperation on the XpressWest project adjacent to the 15 Freeway comes days ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the United States. Financial terms of the agreement, and the cost of the project, were not immediately clear.

XpressWest, a private venture formerly called DesertXpress, has been under discussion since at least 2007. Chinese officials described the project as a 230-mile train linking Las Vegas and Los Angeles, though XpressWest's website says the route is planned as 185 miles from Vegas to Victorville, 85 miles northeast of downtown L.A.

XpressWest agreed this month to form a joint venture with China Railway International USA Co. to build and operate the railway, Shu Guozeng, deputy head of the government's Office of the Central Leading Group for Financial and Economic Affairs, said at a news conference Thursday, according to the state-run Xinhua News Agency. Shu claimed the project could begin construction as early as September 2016.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: California; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: california; china; highspeedrail; lasvegas; losangeles; nevada; southerncalifornia; victorville; xpresswest
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1 posted on 09/17/2015 3:27:31 PM PDT by don-o
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To: don-o

Feasible?

2 posted on 09/17/2015 3:28:37 PM PDT by SunLakesJeff (Life)
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To: don-o

This makes a lot more sense than the existing Train To Nowhere project in CA.


3 posted on 09/17/2015 3:29:19 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: don-o

The Chinese built much of the last railway out of California.


4 posted on 09/17/2015 3:29:44 PM PDT by ThomasThomas (Silence is golden , duct tape is silver. El silencio es oro, cinta del conducto es de plata.)
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To: don-o

California loves its toys, no doubt.

5 posted on 09/17/2015 3:30:08 PM PDT by SunLakesJeff (Life)
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To: don-o

why? and why with china?


6 posted on 09/17/2015 3:30:21 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: don-o

And then a little islamo pre pubic punk inserts a time delay clock with a loaded charge midstream ...


7 posted on 09/17/2015 3:31:15 PM PDT by soycd
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To: ThomasThomas

"Dock that Chink a days' pay for nappin' on the job."

8 posted on 09/17/2015 3:32:14 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: don-o

It will go right through Rock Ridge, I’ll bet.


9 posted on 09/17/2015 3:32:16 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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The Chinese built much of the last railway out of California

Cruel Humor, if unintentional.
10 posted on 09/17/2015 3:32:19 PM PDT by SunLakesJeff (Life)
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To: Steve Van Doorn

11 posted on 09/17/2015 3:32:40 PM PDT by don-o (I am Kenneth Carlisle - Waco 5/17/15)
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To: don-o

The Chinese have a long history of building railroads in California! Maybe it’s a ‘heritage’ thing...


12 posted on 09/17/2015 3:32:52 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: don-o

Is this a vital commerce route or something?


13 posted on 09/17/2015 3:33:13 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: SERKIT

14 posted on 09/17/2015 3:33:27 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: don-o

That would actually be useful...


15 posted on 09/17/2015 3:34:08 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: SunLakesJeff

Let’s send more people to a desert citey to which water must be imported.

Lake Mead is pretty tapped out.

Are all those people going to bring water with them?

Four passenger cars, one tank car?


16 posted on 09/17/2015 3:35:18 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
Is this a vital commerce route or something?

It is for the Las Vegas casinos.

17 posted on 09/17/2015 3:36:31 PM PDT by TADSLOS (A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
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To: don-o

I would like to see Chinese “Best Management Practices” in a project like that.

Corrupt managers get taken to the ditch and shot, or get mobbed and beat up by their employees.


18 posted on 09/17/2015 3:41:48 PM PDT by bakeneko
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To: don-o
Drive 1.5-2 hours to get on a train? Why not just keep going the last fourish hours to Vegas? Idiots. Least take the dang thing out to Lancaster and meet up with the Metrolink train.

Not only do you hit more retirees who might want to hop a train to go gamble in Vegas (as well as more young couples who might want to weekend it out there), but you actually reach some industry and corporations who might also use the route.

I guess the only positive is that they skip the San Andreas fault zone by ending in Victorville - then again, there's more inland faults that can cause significant damage along that route.

19 posted on 09/17/2015 3:49:36 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: MrEdd

Estimated final cost of the train to nowhere in the desert is $120 billion. I have been tracking this scam for years now. For $120 billion you could purchase a new Toyota for each and every family unit in California or even better, build enough desalination plants to meet all of California’s domestic water needs. Fienstien’s husband is prime contractor. Jerry Brown is also part of the scam. The same Jerry Brown talking about running for Dem president in 2016


20 posted on 09/17/2015 3:50:26 PM PDT by robert14 (cng)
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