-— 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.
” 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.