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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I made that trip ONCE in four hours, and had all factors in my favor, including high winds that kept the CHP plane grounded. This was in ‘82, the population was at least 20% less, to boot. Six hours is much more like it, nowadays.
Thanks.
Probably start in Apple Valley actually N. E. of the river.
Because that would make sense.
-— The freeway to Vegas is always crowded. So, yes. -—
I just looked at the interstate highway map and I can see that Vegas is on the trucking route from LA to Salt Lake City, Denver and Chicago. But freight won’t be going by high speed rail. I’m surprised that a lot of people travel from LA to Vegas. OTOH, building through a sparsely populated area is probably relatively inexpensive.
When I think of good places for high speed rail, I think of the Washington to Boston corridor, but building there is probably impossible these days.
-— Foreigners are buying our businesses and investing in, well, everything here because we don’t.
This is dangerous. -—
It makes us interdependent, which is a positive, stabilizing force.
At first I agree. but as time passes, they call the shots and own the infrastructure. Over time, certainly decades, it is a bloodless invasion. Once they own the “big pieces” you either do what they say or are “extinguished” in some form.
Sun Tzu. Avoid brute force if you can.
” I’m surprised that a lot of people travel from LA to Vegas.”
Lol. You do know that Vegas is packed with resort casinos? It’s one of the favorite vacation getaways for people in SoCal. The freeways to and from Vegas are absolutely packed on weekends and holidays. An LA to LV run will be heavily used.
This route makes far more sense than the LA to SF one that Brown is building- I’m sure that it was picked in order to funnel tax money to Democrat insiders who own land along that corridor.
How many infrastructure jobs does the U.S. have in China that we own and operate?
Las Vegas’ number one goal is to find a way to get that MONEY coming from the coast into and out of Vegas FASTER and easier.
-— You do know that Vegas is packed with resort casinos? It’s one of the favorite vacation getaways for people in SoCal. -—
I can’t understand the attraction 8-)
It seems like you have everything you could possibly want in So. Cal.
“It seems like you have everything you could possibly want in So. Cal.”
Gangs. Graffiti. Illegals. An all Democrat government.
We have it all.
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