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It’s a good start, I only wish it went somewhere that wasn’t Vegas.
Right? Let’s not link two major cities, but instead spend billions to put a rail out to a dying city in the middle of the desert with disappearing water while climate change is happening.
Damn if this had existed when I lived in LA, I could’ve walked from my apartment to the red line and made it all the way to Vegas with zero traffic and no concerns of trying to drive home on Sunday with the dreaded I stayed up until four o’clock hangover.
Yeah it is one helluva drive.
From this Video
I haven’t read the article or heard anything about this, but calling it right now: this wont be completed in less than 20 years and $10B.
The planned cost is $12B, with overruns coming on top of that
i mean it’s brightline, they already run service in florida just fine.
But when wealthy people want anything they can make it happen in the blink of an eye.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A bipartisan group of lawmakers from Nevada and California have pushed for the federal grant for months, pitching Brightline West as a needed economic driver.
“This historic high-speed rail project will be a game changer for Nevada’s tourism economy and transportation,” Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) said in a statement.
“It’ll bring more visitors to our state, reduce traffic on the I-15, create thousands of good paying jobs, and decrease carbon emissions, all while relying on local union labor.”
Advocates hope the project can better connect Las Vegas to California with cheaper transportation, relieve traffic and cut emissions.
About 16 million people drive from Las Vegas toward Southern California on Interstate 15 every year through the Mojave Desert.
The Brightline West project is planned to run from a new station near the Las Vegas Strip to Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., where it would link with Los Angeles’s existing regional rail system.
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The should either put a stop in Primm/State Line or a dedicated line from Vegas and back.
Wait… Primm is real? I thought that only existed in Fallout New Vegas.
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Is Primm still a thing? I feel like a saw a recent video of it and it’s mostly abandoned. Too bad. We used to love going there for cheap everything. It was like twenty dollar rooms, fifty cent beers, one dollar breakfast, and dirt cheap gambling for all the broke college student’s degenerate needs.
(This was all back in the nineties though I feel like I got a sub twenty dollar room at whiskey Pete’s in the 2000s)
They still think so.
