Posted on 01/24/2024 7:24:47 PM PST by george76
A proposed high-speed passenger train between Las Vegas and Southern California got another boost on Tuesday with Biden administration approval to issue $2.5 billion in tax-exempt bonds for the $12 billion project.
The announcement benefiting the Brightline West project followed a $3 billion U.S. Department of Transportation grant in December and government authorization in 2020 for the company to sell $1 billion in similar bonds.
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The 218-mile (351-kilometer) Brightline West project aims to whisk passengers at 186 mph (300 kph) or more in electric trains on new tracks along the Interstate 15 corridor
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No date has been announced for work to start, but officials have said it might be operational by the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in 2028.
Of course it does.
It pays very well to steel elections in Nevada.
Las Vegas doesn’t even have Amtrak service. Perhaps first connect it to the standard rail service.
Electric transit is fine. Electric trains are not.
A stupid project. Just build casinos in LA instead.
This isn't China. Maybe by 2035.
“...officials have said it might be operational by the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in 2028.”
What an effin joke
Billions for a train to Vegas, as our border is completely out of control...Raving lunatics are running the country..
What’s the big hurry to lose in casino’s?
Will California’s train to nowwhere be anywhere near built by then?
Brightline has a good chance of being up and running well before the California HighSpeed Rail currently priced at 130 billion dollars. Brightline is a private sector enterprise, operating a high speed rail already in Florida, so they know how to do it. Compared to most federal grants, this one just might be a good investment for the people. And it make sense, point-to-point transportation, LA to LV, as opposed to trying to cover the territory like the CHSR boondoggle.
🙄🖕. A train load of crap. Again.
No.
Indian casinos and card rooms aren’t really competitive with the casinos on the strip.
> Brightline has a good chance of being up and running well before the California HighSpeed Rail currently priced at 130 billion dollars. Brightline is a private sector enterprise, operating a high speed rail already in Florida, so they know how to do it. Compared to most federal grants, this one just might be a good investment for the people. And it make sense, point-to-point transportation, LA to LV, as opposed to trying to cover the territory like the CHSR boondoggle.
FWIW, this is my understanding (limited as it is) also.
I am under the impression that part of the CA HSR was moved east to help the two systems augment each other (someone out there who is following it closer may be able to comment with more accuracy).
Bottom line, the Brightline people (according to some who claim to be in the know) actually have a somewhat viable business plan, while CA HSR is and will for the forseeable future remain a financial mess.
(FWIW...)
With the democrats, whatever the mob wants, the mob gets and citizens pay the bill.
Red China’s knockoff stolen technology is nothing to look up to.
Must have taken lessons from the Big Dig.
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