![]() ![]() ![]() California has also been building its own high-speed system for the past several years, though it won’t connect the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles until the 2030s-assuming it overcomes funding and routing challenges. Amtrak is upgrading its profitable Acela line that runs between Boston and Washington, D.C., to become a true high-speed system. The U.S., with its car culture, extensive highway system and heavy reliance on air travel, is a laggard when it comes to building the kinds of bullet trains that have raced across Europe, Japan and China for years. To hold down costs, it also seeks to build tracks adjacent to existing highways–at ground level and not elevated–as it’s doing in Florida and intends to do in California and Nevada. (For more, see Inside A Wall Street Tycoon’s Plans To Get Americans Off The Highway–And On His Trains, from the Jissue of Forbes Magazine.)īeyond Brightline West and Florida, Eden’s plan is to build passenger lines connecting other large cities that are between 200 miles to 300 miles apart, distances that are often too far to drive and too close to fly. and Vegas, which ranges from four hours to interminable when traffic and weather conditions are unfavorable. It’s also likely to be faster than the typical car trip between L.A. That’s longer than flying time of less than an hour but comparable to total travel time when factoring in getting to and from crowded airports, checking in and going through security. With the new plan, a passenger could board a Metrolink commuter train at L.A.’s downtown Union Station, transfer to a Brightline West train at Rancho Cucamonga and be in Las Vegas in three and a half hours. Based on reporting from July, the project’s initial cost was 33 billion, with 12 billion to 16 billion coming from the federal government. The project was approved in 2008 and set to open in 2020, but it was hampered by funding cuts. “The trip between Victor Valley and Rancho Cucamonga would be approximately 35 minutes,” according to the Transportation Department. Take California High-Speed Rail Authority, for example. The additional segment under review, with overhead electric lines, includes stations Brightline would build in Rancho Cucamonga, adjacent to an existing Metrolink station, and Hesperia, California. (KBAK/KBFX) 22 miles of construction work on the. Brightline West plans to build a rail station in Rancho Cucamonga, a Los Angeles suburb, where passengers would transfer from Metrolink commuter trains. Thu, June 2nd 2022, 6:21 PM PDT 3 VIEW ALL PHOTOS Progress of the High-speed rail throughout Kern County. ![]()
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