The freeway to Vegas is always crowded. So, yes.
I agree. I travel LA to Vegas every six weeks. Traffic is terrible unless you leave very early (5:30AM to 6:00AM)
-— 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.