Construction Of 200 MPH High-Speed Train From Las Vegas To SoCal Set To Begin | Carscoops carscoops
The High-Speed Rail Labor Coalition has entered a memorandum of understanding with Brightline. The two will work together to build Brightline West, the nation’s first high-speednetwork in the southwest. The project involves a $10 billion dollar investment but has a number of benefits.
That stretch of rail will feature five different stations. The Southern California end will sit in Rancho Cucamonga. The other end will be at the Strip inand between the two stops will be three more in Apple Valley, Hesperia, and Victor Valley, California. Once completed, it’ll take passengers from Southern California near Los Angeles to Las Vegas, a 218-mile trip, in just over two hours.
Brightline expects it to create almost 35,000 jobs during construction and add more than $10 billion in economic impact. Many of those jobs will go to union workers involved as a part of this deal. The High-Speed Rail Labor Coalition includes 13 different rail unions representing more than 160,000 regional, commuter, and passenger railroad workers.Once the line is up and running it’ll maintain around 1,000 jobs while significantly reducing emissions.
. As of now, it has a line from Miami to West Palm Beach that reaches about 79 mph . It expects its rail from SoCal to Las Vegas to reach completion by 2026 or 2027.as we perform test runs along the 528 corridor with trains reaching speeds of 125 MPH between Cocoa and Orlando. This 40-mile stretch features no grade crossings and will only be used for passenger rail once service begins.
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