Officials broke ground Monday on a new high-speed rail system that will connect Southern California and Las Vegas. The Brightline West system will average speeds of about 115 miles per hour and reach a top speed of around 200 mph, comparable to other high-speed systems around the world. The Eurostar between London and Paris averages […]
Brightline West aims to be operational in 2028, when Los Angles hosts the Summer Olympics.
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Skeptics called the idea, a runaway train. Now, the long-anticipated and first high-speed rail in the United States began construction in the Vegas Valley on Monday. US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo, Sen. Jacky Rosen, California Rep. Pete Aguilar, and others attended the groundbreaking for Brightline West, marking []
Once complete, Brightline's train will connect Las Vegas and Rancho Cucamonga in two hours.
Southern Californians can expect to board a high-speed train as soon as 2028 for a two-hour ride to Las Vegas, officials on the $12-billion project said when construction ceremonially broke ground Monday in Sin City. "We'll move millions of people between two of the most exciting and important regions of the country, Southern California and here in southern Nevada," said Wes Edens, Brightline’s founder and chairman and a private equity billionaire. "We are the only industrialized country in the...
The CEO of the company in charge of the project says he expects it to be in operation before Los Angeles hosts the Summer Olympics in 2028.
Federal, transportation and union leaders gathered in Las Vegas Monday to drive spikes into a symbolic rail, marking the beginning of construction for a $12 billion high-speed rail line that will link Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area. “People have been dreaming of high-speed rail in America for decades,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said
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Night work on the Brightline West high-speed rail project is planned outside of Las Vegas on April 15-16 beginning at 9 p.m. as field investigations continue in the Interstate 15 median.
As work begins on building the US’s first high-speed rail service – linking Los Angeles to Las Vegas – analysts say the project could serve as a blueprint for similar projects across the country
The longstanding plan to connect Texas' two largest cities with a bullet train has support from political leaders in the U.S. and Japan, where the high-speed technology was developed. Amtrak continues to explore the idea.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Groundbreaking on a $12 billion high-speed passenger rail line between Las Vegas and