High-speed, All-electric Rail Project Connecting Southern California and Las Vegas Is Officially in the Works

In my opinion, horrible idea and not needed. I dont get why liberals love trains so much.

https://www.travelandleisure.com/bri...nced%20Tuesday

https://www.travelandleisure.com/thm...01ad8236aa.jpg

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High-speed rail company Brightline is starting its field investigation work in southern California to prepare for a rail corridor connecting the state with Las Vegas.

The Brightline West project is kicking off with work along I-15 from Jan. 23 to Jan. 26, the company announced Tuesday. This is the next stage of field work, which began in Nevada earlier this month.

“The field work will advance final stages of design in preparation for a groundbreaking,” Brightline West wrote in a statement.

When complete, the company will operate a 218-mile all-electric rail service connecting Sin City with the Los Angeles area with speeds up to 200 mph. The project is expected to take about four years.

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Originally Posted by desertrunner

I dont get why liberals love trains so much.

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this is because you are not a very bright person.

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I dont get why liberals love trains so much.

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this is because you are not a very bright person.

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Um, I am by far much more brighter than you, just not a full-time internet troll.

The question is valid since the liberals are so anti fossil fuel and pro-environment that a train does not make any sense. Just like when Biden cancelled the Keystone II pipeline, all of the sudden, the government must install railroad tracks and big diesel trains to haul and move the oil now. Makes no sense and counters the entire idea of shutting down the pipeline.

Also, Dems/liberals like trains because they can contain and move people...much like the Germans did with the jews.

Trains are nice, but not the future.

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Originally Posted by desertrunner

I dont get why liberals love trains so much.

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this is because you are not a very bright person.

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He’s obviously never drove home from Vegas to LA on Sunday afternoon.

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this is because you are not a very bright person.

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He’s obviously never drove home from Vegas to LA on Sunday afternoon.

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Done it, but also smart enough to extend my stay and just leave Monday morning instead.

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He’s obviously never drove home from Vegas to LA on Sunday afternoon.

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Done it, but also smart enough to extend my stay and just leave Monday morning instead.

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Well most people have these things called jobs they have to go to on Monday mornings. Except DJ Chaps of course.

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Done it, but also smart enough to extend my stay and just leave Monday morning instead.

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Well most people have these things called jobs they have to go to on Monday mornings.

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desertrunner is much too bright to have a job, clearly.

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Done it, but also smart enough to extend my stay and just leave Monday morning instead.

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Well most people have these things called jobs they have to go to on Monday mornings. Except DJ Chaps of course.

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Seriously, youre that dense, it is possible to take vacation days, shift trade, etc.

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Well most people have these things called jobs they have to go to on Monday mornings.

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desertrunner is much too bright to have a job, clearly.

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I can guarantee I have worked more shifts and years than you have. Druff can confirm this.

Another article-

Brightline West halfway to $12 billion funding for Las Vegas high-speed train

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Funding sources so far for Brightline West include:

$2.5 billion in private activity bonds announced today
$3 billion grant for the Nevada Department of Transportation, allocated to the project and announced in December
$1 billion private activity bond approved in 2020
$25 million grant to the San Bernardino County Transportation Authority announced in June

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Well most people have these things called jobs they have to go to on Monday mornings. Except DJ Chaps of course.

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Seriously, youre that dense, it is possible to take vacation days, shift trade, etc.

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Well most people have these things called jobs they have to go to on Monday mornings.

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desertrunner is much too bright to have a job, clearly.

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I can guarantee I have worked more shifts and years than you have. Druff can confirm this.

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i think i can guarantee you worked more shifts than i have as well.



those ditches dont dig themselves.

Let's stop with the fighting/trolling here. This is actually a good topic.

The problem with the train is that it's not a real LA-Vegas route. Were there a high speed train you could hop in/near downtown LA and get dropped in/near the Vegas strip, this would be useful. I wouldn't take it, because I like having a car at all times in Vegas, but I know many others who would.

The problem is that it's only planned to go to Rancho Cucamonga, which is about 45 miles east of Los Angeles.

This means that people wanting to take the train have to either drive to Rancho Cucamonga and park there (which can be as far as 100 miles from some parts of greater LA), or take the Metrolink just to get there, and then transfer to the train.

Is this going to save much time for anyone? Unlikely. Maybe it will have some utilization for those who can't drive, or those who want to be able to do the Friday-Sunday Vegas trip without the bad traffic both ways, but otherwise it really isn't very useful. The typical driver can make it to Vegas from downtown LA in 4 hours when there's little or no traffic. Doing the Metrolink bullshit and the transfer, plus the actual time it takes to go from Rancho Cucamonga to Vegas, plus the time to get from the station to the hotel -- I bet I could do the drive faster.

$12b on this is not a reasonable expenditure.

They're trying a new tactic to fix the Sunday backup at Primm (40 miles south of Vegas). They have improved the shoulder on the southbound 15 to where it is the same quality as a regular lane of traffic. On Sundays and Mondays, they now allow shoulder travel. It used to be only from 10am-8pm, but they lifted that restriction recently. Now you can drive on the shoulder on those two days.

I did that last time I went to Vegas, as they made special allowance for it on January 2, due to the New Years holiday. Most people were afraid to do it, as it felt unnatural.

I don't think this will do a lot of good during heavy traffic times, because the backup is due to the necessity to slow down for the (almost always closed) fruit inspection station at the border. and not as much because of a lack of lanes going south.

I hope the whole idea fails and folds before it gets started. A really bad idea.

I will say that there have sometimes been times I wanted Master Scalir to come to Vegas for the day for... "reasons"... but it's not practical for him to do so, since he has no car, and doesn't live close to the airport (plus it gets expensive to fly last minute).

So if this gets built, he's the guy who would get on the Metrolink and transfer.

But as I said, for most people this isn't very useful.

if i was the department of energy id fund this if only to let talent commute in from LA.

Brightline now is up and running in South Florida connecting Miami--->Orlando

eventually will too Tampa also with High Speed fast trains

And now a round trip ticket could cost over $400. I rather drive to Vegas from So Cal.

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Brightline founder and chairman Wes Edens told the Los Angeles Times round-trip tickets to take their high-speed rail between the two locations could cost over $400. Edens said the company is experimenting with pricing but that right now, prices are similar to airline tickets, meaning the cost changes depending on when you book.

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Brightline West: Round-trip tickets from Las Vegas to SoCal could cost over $400

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Originally Posted by desertrunner

In my opinion, horrible idea and not needed. I dont get why liberals love trains so much.

https://www.travelandleisure.com/bri...nced%20Tuesday

https://www.travelandleisure.com/thm...01ad8236aa.jpg

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High-speed rail company Brightline is starting its field investigation work in southern California to prepare for a rail corridor connecting the state with Las Vegas.

The Brightline West project is kicking off with work along I-15 from Jan. 23 to Jan. 26, the company announced Tuesday. This is the next stage of field work, which began in Nevada earlier this month.

“The field work will advance final stages of design in preparation for a groundbreaking,” Brightline West wrote in a statement.

When complete, the company will operate a 218-mile all-electric rail service connecting Sin City with the Los Angeles area with speeds up to 200 mph. The project is expected to take about four years.

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Answer is simple. They read Atlas Shrugged was about a big nationwide corporate train entity. Except the dumbass libs missed the rest of the story and oh yeah if your paying attn your starting to see atlas shrugged become real life. (Looking at Boeing).

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Well most people have these things called jobs they have to go to on Monday mornings.

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desertrunner is much too bright to have a job, clearly.

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Putting 2 and 2 together knowing DR was in fire service. Knowing CalPers retirement pays well I’m guessing he’s got a nice pension courtesy of the state he’s either started collecting or will very soon.

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Seriously, youre that dense, it is possible to take vacation days, shift trade, etc.

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Originally Posted by sonatine

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Well most people have these things called jobs they have to go to on Monday mornings.

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desertrunner is much too bright to have a job, clearly.

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I can guarantee I have worked more shifts and years than you have. Druff can confirm this.

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i think i can guarantee you worked more shifts than i have as well.



those ditches dont dig themselves.

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Not when you’re sitting on your fat ass trolling everything including crypto soaking your feet in Diet Dr Pepper cream soda. You clearly missed the memo that DesertRunner worked/works 24 possibly 48s saving dumbasses like you in car wrecks fires etc couldn’t hold his Nomex if you even legit tried.

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Originally Posted by Dan Druff

They're trying a new tactic to fix the Sunday backup at Primm (40 miles south of Vegas). They have improved the shoulder on the southbound 15 to where it is the same quality as a regular lane of traffic. On Sundays and Mondays, they now allow shoulder travel. It used to be only from 10am-8pm, but they lifted that restriction recently. Now you can drive on the shoulder on those two days.

I did that last time I went to Vegas, as they made special allowance for it on January 2, due to the New Years holiday. Most people were afraid to do it, as it felt unnatural.

I don't think this will do a lot of good during heavy traffic times, because the backup is due to the necessity to slow down for the (almost always closed) fruit inspection station at the border. and not as much because of a lack of lanes going south.

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Meanwhile they continue to piss around on building I-11 from Phx to NV. Totally makes zero sense. Largest metro areas with no interstate connection between them. Ridiculous that the route continues to be a 2 lane Hwy (US93) that occasionally widens to 4 lanes at time to allow traffic to pass and spread out again. Meanwhile those zones are literally nascar racing strips with people consistently hitting 100mph+ trying to pass all the semis and slower traffic.

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desertrunner is much too bright to have a job, clearly.

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Putting 2 and 2 together knowing DR was in fire service. Knowing CalPers retirement pays well I’m guessing he’s got a nice pension courtesy of the state he’s either started collecting or will very soon.

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Wow, ftjesus is pretty spot on, I'm impressed. Druff can confirm at age 52, CalPERS and UCRS public safety retiree since Dec. 2022. I also have a FERS retirement waiting for me at age 62. Druff actually knows pretty much most of my life details and can confirm stuff.

I am in this pic somewhere and not the kid...

https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...7A&oe=661C7856

This week i drove from LA to Vegas on the 15 and saw NO construction or any indication of future rail in the desert. I guess we will wait and see.

Update with rendering of train interior-

https://ktla.com/news/california/soc...ibextid=Zxz2cZ

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Update with rendering of train interior-

https://ktla.com/news/california/soc...ibextid=Zxz2cZ

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If you suspended reality and the train was actually built it would be one week before the LA crowd would cover that interior in vomit and graffiti.

The drunken fights on board would be a whole daily twitter thing.

There is a reason LA has no mass transit.

Love this kind of thing. Skim through it.

https://youtu.be/8GK0CwIOGHw?si=HMdijKUKvbE-DCYd

An update-

https://www.reviewjournal.com/?p=317...ibextid=Zxz2cZ

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...2f01e65ea4.jpg

Still hope this project fails.

Why do you hate America so much, Dessert Runner?

In another thread you rambling about giving money to Ukraine is bad despite the money coming back to America as weapons purchases and/or weapons production jobs for Americans.

Superfast rail creates jobs for Americans, whcih means spending and taxes and other benefits to the economy.

Deaths by train are a lot lower than deaths by driving as well.

imagine being so autistic that normal trains just arent enough so you have to fixate on imaginary ones.

My personal take- This is still a horrible idea and should be scraped.

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Along the I-15 Freeway in the Inland Empire, heavy construction is set to commence next year for Brightline West, the $12-billion high-speed rail line which will connect Southern California with Las Vegas. Simultaneously, California High Speed Rail continues to make progress in the Central Valley, and could one day make its way southward into the Los Angeles area. In anticipation of a day when both services are up and running in Southern California, steps are being taken to connect them.
A September 2024 presentation published by the High Desert Corridor Joint Power Agency offers a look at the proposed High Desert Corridor high-speed rail line, which would span a roughly 54-mile corridor between Palmdale and Victor Valley. This would allow for direct service on Brightline West between Los Angeles Union Station and Las Vegas, rather the current route which is to terminate outside of Los Angeles County in Rancho Cucamonga.

Here's how Brightline West could connect with California High Speed Rail

https://la.urbanize.city/sites/defau...?itok=vGgYHRJK

https://la.urbanize.city/sites/defau...?itok=qY-NstHM

https://la.urbanize.city/sites/defau...?itok=YAiTbBdZ

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Why do you hate America so much, Dessert Runner?

I never said this. I love my country and the Mojave desert.

In another thread you rambling about giving money to Ukraine is bad despite the money coming back to America as weapons purchases and/or weapons production jobs for Americans.

Thats BS and a typical liberal lie. We need to stop laundering money at Ukraine, both Obama and Biden has done this.

Superfast rail creates jobs for Americans, whcih means spending and taxes and other benefits to the economy.

And you have facts to back this up? A train between LA and Vegas is NOT needed. People like to use their cars and/or fly there from ONT, BUR, SNA, etc.

Deaths by train are a lot lower than deaths by driving as well.

According to who? Did you just make that up or have real facts?

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Thanks to this post, I am always reminded by liberals like trains so much...

https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver...%2C520%2C0%2C0

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Answers in bold.

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Why do you hate America so much, Dessert Runner?

I never said this. I love my country and the Mojave desert.

In another thread you rambling about giving money to Ukraine is bad despite the money coming back to America as weapons purchases and/or weapons production jobs for Americans.

Thats BS and a typical liberal lie. We need to stop laundering money at Ukraine, both Obama and Biden has done this.

Superfast rail creates jobs for Americans, whcih means spending and taxes and other benefits to the economy.

And you have facts to back this up? A train between LA and Vegas is NOT needed. People like to use their cars and/or fly there from ONT, BUR, SNA, etc.

Deaths by train are a lot lower than deaths by driving as well.

According to who? Did you just make that up or have real facts?

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Thanks to this post, I am always reminded by liberals like trains so much...

https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver...%2C520%2C0%2C0

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The Nazis were right wing fascists, but Stalin sent even more people on trains to Siberia.

Another article dated 10/9/24-

https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-...ibextid=Zxz2cZ

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Las Vegas will eventually be linked to most major cities and towns in California via high-speed rail, starting with Victorville and Rancho Cucamonga.

https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net...wg&oe=67710519

Brightline keeps saying that its going to happen and going to start and then it never does. Again, this whole train idea is a total failure.

Another valid question was asked-

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What happens when they get to the Cajon Pass ? High speed rail trains have not been made yet that can go over a 6% grade . The highest grade a high speed rail train has gone over is 5.2% and that is in China. So are they going to build a tunnel through the mountains?

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https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...tg&oe=68B817ED

Brightline West hopes to kick off heavy construction by the end of the year on the $12 billion project set to run between Las Vegas and Rancho Cucamonga, California. DETAILS: https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/...reOVKRG--6WABg

Second story-

Construction work on the Brightline West is affecting some roads and ramps with closures next week. Plus, a wife's reaction after a judge sentences the man who killed her husband in a DUI crash. And, how Las Vegas' high jobless rate can predict what's ahead for the rest of the nation.

Video mark 1:50-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlGn7sAReO8




Note to Druff- The thread title in Post #1 is not what I originally wrote, wish you would please not alter the thread titles. Thanks