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.
The LA gangbangers will own this.
Wow! Everyone gets a great deal to buy TAX FREE municipal bonds.
What could possibly go wrong?
A college frat brother worked in Vegas during the 70s, said they don’t pay for all those lights by giving away money.
Will there be gambling and brothel cars?
The scalp us pale faces
This train is needed because there is currently no way to get between Los Angeles and Las Vegas quickly.
Oh wait—are we in 1924?
Lol.
Wonder how far that sucker will skid when a large earthquake hits?.
For 2.5 Billion, you can just pay for the passengers to stay in Vegas.
For a really long time.
Last visit to Vegas was in 1989. Saw Jay Leno show before he became famous. But had to stand in line at noon to buy tickets. Then another line at show time to get a table. Leno was very good, but I don’t like lines. And I don’t gamble in casinos. Wall Street is enough gamble LOL.
“MIGHT” ALSO NEVER BE OPERATIONAL
PARK your car in Victorville in unsecured parking lot.....
Ride train to Vegas
Need taxi to get around Vegas==more $$$$
Reverse route:
Find your car has no wheels/tires/ & other parts easily accessed.
YOU ARE STRANDED IN VICTORVILLE !!!!
COST OF 275 mile trip-—MUCH MORE THAN YOU BUDGETED.
AIN’T “HI SPEED RAIL” GREAT????
$12,000,000,000 12 Billion
DIVIDED by 275 miles (the distance I drove from the Strip to Burbank—— EQUALS==
$4,363,636.35 per mile
OVER $ MILLION per mile.
They already have a dead project in the San Jouquin Valley-—WHY NOT ADD ANOTHER BOONDOGGLE???
IF terminus is Victorville-—TOTAL miles will be shorter !!!
You don’t wait in lines anymore and they rarely have tables. It’s theater style seating and you buy tickets online, or gamble so much they give you “free” tickets.
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