USA’s NEW High-Speed Railway ($12BN)

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    Brightline is building a 12 billion dollar high-speed railway between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Since the 1960’s, the United States has tried to develop high-speed railways. For decades, nothing materialized. Then, in 2008, California high-speed rail launched, promising revolutionary rail service between Los Angeles and San Francisco. However, over 15 years later and the project has been plagued by land acquisition issues, cost overruns and a lack of funding. For a while, it seemed high-speed rail may not work in the US. Then, in Florida, a company called Brightline successfully built the country’s first privately operated intercity railway. They are now expanding and have begun construction on Brightline West, the USA’s first high-speed railway between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. With a max speed of 190 miles per hour, it will cut the travel time between the two cities from 4 hours to only 2 hours and ten minutes. Construction is starting in 2024, with an expected opening date in 2028!
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  • @FuturologyChannel
    @FuturologyChannel  8 місяців тому +13

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    • @fuqupal
      @fuqupal 8 місяців тому +1

      Europe and Asia goes: LOL! n00bs!

  • @TheLiamster
    @TheLiamster 8 місяців тому +245

    This is a great project but I hope it gets double tracked one day in order to run trains more frequently to keep up with demand

    • @entized5671
      @entized5671 8 місяців тому +51

      double tracking means removing highway lanes
      so I agree

    • @stickynorth
      @stickynorth 8 місяців тому +14

      Even with it PARTIALLY doubled tracked (large slow passing sections are designed into this existing project 4-5 I believe) they should be able to do frequencies as often as every half hour on the existing line which could be doubled if you do the European/Japanese thing and lock two trains together... Or keep adding interior section cars since I believe you can in theory make trains as long as 16 cars with the existing 25kv/60hz power that they are planning on using... Trains can seat up to 1200 people in those cases...

    • @f-86zoomer37
      @f-86zoomer37 8 місяців тому +2

      @@entized5671removing highway lanes, thereby causing more congestion and more traffic for the rest of us, all for a train nobody is gonna take? (It doesn’t connect either city directly, but ends miles away from city centers). Yet another high speed rail boondoggle. I’ll take my car or my flight, and so will everyone else.

    • @valentinschwegler165
      @valentinschwegler165 8 місяців тому +27

      @@f-86zoomer37its okay not everyone hates our planet. Also be happy because it will ease congestion for people who still choose the slower option

    • @mrxman581
      @mrxman581 8 місяців тому +4

      ​@@stickynorthIt's not just frequency but total average speed is dimished with single tracking. The 210 mile route should be done in 1:30, not 2:10. That's only an average speed of around 100 mph. That's not impressive for a new HSR train.

  • @mydiscworld
    @mydiscworld 8 місяців тому +157

    Single tracked is a bummer. Having the stations not central means getting a commuter train on the LA side and a taxi on the Vegas side, so driving will still be a fast door-to-door

    • @ZvonimirZelenika
      @ZvonimirZelenika 8 місяців тому +16

      When You exactly know the number of trains operating You can get it to work with single-track (there is an example of Bothnia Line in Sweden). Also to increase capacity You can first make trains longer while still keeping to same frequency of 1tph. Also, this is a MVP (Minimum Viable Product), I do expect the extension to Union Station with electrification of the IEOC line (similar to what is happening in SF with Caltrain to Gilroy) and then a connection via High Desert to CAHSR (who knows, maybe it will be Brightline building the High Desert Corridor HSR and maybe the whole CAHSR). But they need to start with something functional like they did in Florida and then expand.

    • @StreamSched
      @StreamSched 8 місяців тому +8

      Vegas side will have shuttle service and the underground Vegas Loop will have a stop there

    • @kirkrotger9208
      @kirkrotger9208 8 місяців тому +17

      ​@@StreamSchedThe Vegas Loop is completely worthless.

    • @nlpnt
      @nlpnt 8 місяців тому +2

      @@kirkrotger9208 Not *completely*, it gives Elon a source of nearly-new "program cars" for Tesla dealerships.

    • @theventuracountyrailfan
      @theventuracountyrailfan 8 місяців тому +1

      Do you live in this region

  • @xxivxvxvi
    @xxivxvxvi 8 місяців тому +65

    this is probably one of the few railway systems that i actually look forward to seeing

    • @ReynaldoAbasr
      @ReynaldoAbasr 7 місяців тому

      nothing happening now

    • @noerodriguez9047
      @noerodriguez9047 5 місяців тому

      @@ReynaldoAbasrI know they keep saying this since 35 years ago but I don’t see anything yet

  • @JuliusUnique
    @JuliusUnique 8 місяців тому +26

    less wear and tear than cars, sounds worth it to me

    • @CraigFThompson
      @CraigFThompson 8 місяців тому +7

      Not only that, but less transportation fuel consumption per unit of distance. The airlines are DEATHLY AFRAID of this HSR line becoming a reality; the fear stemming from a soon-to-be-enacted ban on ALL airline flights of 500 miles or less. The automotive industry is also DEATHLY AFRAID of a future sudden drop in sales, and the energy corporations are DEATHLY AFRAID of their power base crumbling, due to reduced demand for THEIR fuels....
      With a NATIONWIDE HSR SYSTEM, the entire country can save not only several trillions of dollars, but a helluva lot of future suffering, pertaining to the environment in which we must all live!!

  • @jlafunk
    @jlafunk 8 місяців тому +85

    Just to interject, the California High Speed rail line is still being built. It's not dead.

    • @mrxman581
      @mrxman581 8 місяців тому +5

      Exactly, and is the first HSR line in the USA, not BLW.

    • @kyrieelite
      @kyrieelite 8 місяців тому +4

      And Acela is technically high-speed rail

    • @Ninjabeefyschtick
      @Ninjabeefyschtick 8 місяців тому +6

      ​@@mrxman581It is hard to say which one will complete first, but both will be game changers for CA and the US (after brightline FL of course!)!

    • @Mister8224
      @Mister8224 7 місяців тому +5

      ​@@NinjabeefyschtickAs you must know Florida Brightline ain't going so well. Ridership is cratering, forcing them to look for operating revenue(more taxes), after they promised it would be
      self-sustaining. Absolutely no reason it would be any different in CA. Boondoggle money pit.

    • @reminaya
      @reminaya 7 місяців тому +1

      @@Mister8224nailing it. A scam of epic proportions. The Browndogle!

  • @BIGJATPSU
    @BIGJATPSU 8 місяців тому +15

    In order for this to be a success, they need to AT LEAST electrify the Metrolink from Rancho into LA, ideally before opening. If they can take INTO LA direct, A LOT more Vegas residents (like myself), would use it more often. If it happens after fine, but it'd miss out showing out during the Olympics... if it's ready by then.

    • @mrxman581
      @mrxman581 8 місяців тому +1

      Their CEO has already stated that a direct connection to Union Station is not happening.

    • @CraigFThompson
      @CraigFThompson 8 місяців тому +6

      @BIGJATPSU Not only do they need to electrify, but also grade separate virtually the entire distance between San Bernardino and Los Angeles. Double-tracking is also in order.

    • @BIGJATPSU
      @BIGJATPSU 8 місяців тому

      @@CraigFThompson while that would be great, I believe that is why the "estimated" cost is so low in conjunction with using free right of way from the Feds mostly. Perhaps one day if the line proves worthwhile that can be done and then spliced in so as not to disrupt the service much.

    • @BIGJATPSU
      @BIGJATPSU 8 місяців тому

      @@mrxman581 true, but it NEEDS to. CHSR should just sell them their rights of way while agreeing the systems will connect.... eventually.

  • @Marco-zt6fz
    @Marco-zt6fz 8 місяців тому +66

    High Speed Railway is the future of mass transportation. All over europe, china Japan, Russia has High Speed Railway. The best railway network from europe has Switzerland, thats the reason that so many people go to work by train and not by car. But needs more then Highspeed Train also the local public transportion has to be connected. Its cheaper to go work by train then by car. Thats only one exemple.

    • @mrxman581
      @mrxman581 8 місяців тому +1

      Los Angeles and San Francisco have extensive local rail transit infrastructure.

    • @CraigFThompson
      @CraigFThompson 8 місяців тому +1

      ​@@mrxman581As well as San Diego....

    • @roger5059
      @roger5059 8 місяців тому

      ​@@mrxman581for american standards, yes

    • @zo62
      @zo62 7 місяців тому

      It was the past

    • @CraigFThompson
      @CraigFThompson 7 місяців тому +1

      @@zo62 And now we've gone BACK TO THE FUTURE.

  • @nanaokyere7141
    @nanaokyere7141 8 місяців тому +30

    This why i love when cities host huge events sich as the Olympics. It forces cities to come up with something quick and to built fast. Other thwn that, this project would DEFINITELY not be built in 4 years and instead would be built in 10-15 years.

    • @mrxman581
      @mrxman581 8 місяців тому +3

      The Olympics have absolutely NOTHING to do with the timeline of this project. It's propaganda. Why? Because this train ENDS in Ranch Cucamonga, not Los Angeles!

    • @CraigFThompson
      @CraigFThompson 8 місяців тому

      ​@@mrxman581And what about the propaganda it took to force several thousand Americans to forfeit their private properties to provide a right-of-way for some damned "Hitler strip" to traverse through the most expensive and valuable urban areas in our nation?! Because of the automotive industry and energy corporations, these stuperhighways continue to cost EVERYONE, regardless of vehicle ownership or not, to dig deep into their wallets to fund wasteful and inefficient swaths of concrete which not only haven't collected so much as a single red cent in tolls, but also NEVER generated a red cent's worth of taxes, despite the amount of land they consume!

    • @markdunham7518
      @markdunham7518 2 місяці тому

      This project will never be finished. The Simpsons monorail episode.

  • @Contractwiththeuniverse.
    @Contractwiththeuniverse. 8 місяців тому +3

    I hope that bright line is successful for decades to come.

  • @johnl5316
    @johnl5316 Місяць тому +1

    This video must have been funded by the owners of alternative energy companies

  • @DarkKnight52365
    @DarkKnight52365 8 місяців тому +12

    let's it is successful as America needs a high-speed rail network

  • @Travel-by-Train
    @Travel-by-Train 5 місяців тому +1

    Great video... Thank you for giving a lot of detail and information 🍒🍒🍒

  • @shipidu
    @shipidu 5 місяців тому +4

    3.5Hr LA to Las Vegas? Only possible weekdays. Weekends at least 5hrs and Holidays over 6Hrs for sure.

  • @stephenharper9961
    @stephenharper9961 3 місяці тому +1

    Just like with the original brightline, the world watches with massive interest at this project

    • @starzallin1670
      @starzallin1670 3 місяці тому

      Lets see can it beat indian Hayabusa i think this train can't beat it

    • @starzallin1670
      @starzallin1670 3 місяці тому

      Can it beat indian Hayabusa I think no

  • @JRam-bg2ii
    @JRam-bg2ii 7 місяців тому +34

    Ranch Cucamonga is not Los Angeles. With all the bureaucracy, we will probably won’t see it truly go all the way to L.A for another 100 years.

    • @jorgedominguez7259
      @jorgedominguez7259 7 місяців тому +4

      It doesn’t need to. The metrolink is more than enough to get you to down town la. Rancho is a perfect middle spot

    • @sang7349
      @sang7349 6 місяців тому

      @@jorgedominguez7259 ...you should travel to Asia and Europe. their high speed stations connect to the major cities directly with links to subway systems and other transportation methods.

    • @andrewlau7049
      @andrewlau7049 5 місяців тому +1

      or Brightline can help upgrade the metrolink tracks so that Brightline can use those to get to LA union

    • @braddrummonds7389
      @braddrummonds7389 5 місяців тому +1

      @@jorgedominguez7259 You should probably actually watch someone that has done the math before making that kind of statement. ua-cam.com/video/11Noo855zyA/v-deo.htmlsi=dqlLrfjdQP5PE6gF
      The long and short is that the brightline is almost always preferable to driving a car, but certainly not to flying to vegas in most cases.
      Rancho Cucuamonga is NOT ideal. And there is a very good reason that high speed rail does not follow the same pattern (of having stations in "middle" suburbs ) in big cities with large amounts of inter-ctiy ridership.

  • @irenejewelrygirl-premierde3086
    @irenejewelrygirl-premierde3086 8 місяців тому +6

    I have some feedback living in one of the city's that will have a station. Yes, it's appropriately 3:40 to Vegas from Rancho (no stops to pee, for food, drinks, gas, etc) late morning on a Wednesday with not a lick of traffic. Often "the Pass" has 20 to 60 minute slow downs during regular commuting hours and without any major accidents, can be an additional 2 hours to Vegas or more if it's a holiday weekend or there is a special event. The same goes for the travel time with the Metrolink.
    Also, commuters here locally are ecstatic because this will reduce accidents in the pass by taking additional cars off the road. That corridor of the I-15 is considered one of the most dangerous in the country and this train will help resolve that by taking a good bit of the travel traffic off the roads. There are people that do the commute from the Apple Valley/Hesperia area (High Desert region) to Las Vegas as well and it will help them too.
    Looking at strictly LVconvis, roughly 1/3 of the 43M annual visitors come from So Cal. Which would mean 26.4 one way trips. This doesn't account for commuters or people traveling to McClaren Airport (which we often do).
    Thank you though for not confusing this projwxt with California's HighSpeed Rail authors project which has been riddled with delays due to right of way issues but mostly corruption (like the politician's family's company won the bid. Look it up).
    The other thing to note is that this project will likely not be hundreds of dollars per ticket that was a large news firm misquoted the representing from the company.

    • @Marcus-xn5tb
      @Marcus-xn5tb 8 місяців тому

      Hm. I thought I've seen a video where some important dude said it'll be $400 round trip which is way too high.

    • @irenejewelrygirl-premierde3086
      @irenejewelrygirl-premierde3086 8 місяців тому +1

      @Marcus-xn5tb he said, to recoup costs quickly. He was misquoted and they keep doing snippet videos. They came to our local chamber of commerce to speak.

    • @Marcus-xn5tb
      @Marcus-xn5tb 8 місяців тому

      @@irenejewelrygirl-premierde3086 "... to recoup costs quickly..." That's a yes...

    • @irenejewelrygirl-premierde3086
      @irenejewelrygirl-premierde3086 8 місяців тому +1

      @Marcus-xn5tb he's also not an idiot of a business man. If a company of a service isn't getting sales, they lower their prices.

  • @alex30425
    @alex30425 8 місяців тому +11

    The California speed rail will be faster given the fact that more amount of the tract will allow faster speeds for a longer period of time. The bright line west will be slower as it’s going to the cheaper and slower route.

    • @mrxman581
      @mrxman581 8 місяців тому +2

      Very true. And the CAHSR will also have pass through tracks at various stations to possibly provide express service where it wouldn't stop at all the stations.

    • @kyrieelite
      @kyrieelite 8 місяців тому +1

      And also they are not single tracking CAHSR and it’s over a much longer route, hence a lot of the higher costs but also the higher speeds

  • @jsn_alva
    @jsn_alva 6 місяців тому +3

    Another similar Brightline project from LA to San Diego would be awesome. Only because Phase 1 of CHSR is way over schedule. Phase II connecting LA to SD through Murieta already seemed like an afterthought. Imagine waiting on that to finish. I would cap Phase II a Murrieta. Create a new straight-line project LA to SD.

  • @Scorpidoo
    @Scorpidoo 8 місяців тому +13

    That is alot of imperial system and the metric system going back and forth, be nice if both systems are seen or said in the video, so everyone in the world knows and understands.

  • @Imzaluzzulazmi
    @Imzaluzzulazmi 8 місяців тому +12

    Indonesia has high speed rail with maximum speed 350 km/h.

    • @jdos5643
      @jdos5643 2 місяці тому +1

      So does Japan

    • @Imzaluzzulazmi
      @Imzaluzzulazmi 2 місяці тому

      @jdos5643 , I rode Shinkansen from Yokohama to Tokyo in 2016.

  • @ThuyNguyen-hw3os
    @ThuyNguyen-hw3os 6 місяців тому +1

    Great video, thank you for sharing

  • @Swissmister93
    @Swissmister93 8 місяців тому +54

    Welcome to the 21st century, America

    • @mrxman581
      @mrxman581 8 місяців тому +3

      CAHSR already did that.

    • @markdunham7518
      @markdunham7518 2 місяці тому +1

      Don't congratulate anyone yet. It still hasn't happened. I'm pretty sure the money will be pilfered before anything is purchased.

  • @stefi300972
    @stefi300972 6 місяців тому +3

    I live in Fresno only a mile from the empty viaducts that have been standing for some time with no new progress and I have never seen a single worker, where is everyone? way behind schedule, I hope it will be finished some day but they say it will be another decade before the central valley part will be up and running, not even started on the other bits, I hope I am still alive when its finished, if ever, Bright line I believe will be finished within a few years. I wish them all the success, maybe they need to show California hows its really done.

    • @bright93
      @bright93 Місяць тому

      Brightline is using the established CAHSR specs for eventual connection to LA Union Station - you do know that an entire industry has to be created to make the train sets with Siemans

  • @BJI82a
    @BJI82a 8 місяців тому +8

    I hope it does work I would like to take a ride on one of those trains in the future.

  • @andrewgalindo6959
    @andrewgalindo6959 2 місяці тому

    I don't know when the last time you drove from L.A. to Vegas but with traffic it's closer to a 6 hour drive. I live in Victorville and from here it's about a 3 hour drive.

  • @RavenWinterz
    @RavenWinterz 5 місяців тому +1

    I could see this adding so much convenience for Americans. I'd travel to another city to spend the day just cuz I could and I'm sure a lot of other people would do that too. Not to mention the commuting benefits, as well as tourist convenience. This could be such a huge positive for our country. Yes there are kinks like having to travel to and from the stations but that could be fixed over time. For now lets just get these high speed trains up and running.

  • @johndunbar7504
    @johndunbar7504 8 місяців тому +2

    It has bee said of free enterprise cultures that companies will often go where governments dare not. This is the best example you will see. Brightline is leading the U.S. in to a passenger future by all this huge and daring investments,

  • @dohminkonoha3200
    @dohminkonoha3200 5 місяців тому +1

    From my experience , high speed train is not loud .
    This is scientifical truth that many Americans would get furious about it.

  • @maciejz7892
    @maciejz7892 6 місяців тому +2

    Single track? Last stop 60km from downtown Los Angeles? 218 miles with speed of 200 mp/h in 2 hours 10 minutes?
    I can already hear the voices of people in the States: "High speed rail is a stupid idea"

  • @Dhshevhsusjzns
    @Dhshevhsusjzns 5 місяців тому +1

    Cool! Im all for it!

  • @MichaelDavis-il8ze
    @MichaelDavis-il8ze 6 місяців тому +6

    The quote speed is incorrect. The trains travel at a max of 220 MPH, not 200.
    Additionally, the GM of Brightline quotes the travel time at 1 hour, 50 minutes.

  • @johnl5316
    @johnl5316 Місяць тому +1

    solar and wind are a catastrophe

  • @terrysidhu1078
    @terrysidhu1078 3 місяці тому

    It should be twin track to cover maintenance and future growth, also should be working on future construction to the next city . Overnight hsr trains could be a big win in the future as they are in Europe

  • @mesmerize3965
    @mesmerize3965 2 місяці тому

    I think it is amazing ideas. The new ways to travel to many states. The future rides!❤❤❤

  • @passatboi
    @passatboi 8 місяців тому +9

    I don't get why they're building that station so far south in Las Vegas. There's a rail line that goes right behind the Rio and right up behind the Trump hotel. Put the station closer to the strip!

    • @mrxman581
      @mrxman581 8 місяців тому +1

      Because they would have to buy the ROW and surrounding land to do that. It costs too much for them. They want to build it on the cheap even if it results in degraded service. They're not buying the vast majority of the ROW on the 15. They're leasing it.

    • @Ven100
      @Ven100 8 місяців тому

      What you consider to be empty/ "so far south" will soon become a hotspot when all the development happens. They're already planning mix-used neighborhoods around the stations. Have vision people. Not to mention the multitudes of services that will take people from the station to the strip. Let's stop pretending the station is 30 miles outside of Vegas.

    • @CarBuddy10
      @CarBuddy10 7 місяців тому +1

      That rail line has tight bends south of the city, and no good place to connect it anywhere north of the bend. It wouldn't fit. They might be better off having it follow I-15 and then cross to Vegas Boulevard somewhere after the famed Welcome sign

  • @rainbowsixODST
    @rainbowsixODST 8 місяців тому +2

    BrightLine West and Texas High-Speed Rail are where my hopes are. If both of these or even just one can prove to the American people and our elected leaders that Highspeed rail is worth investing in then we could be on the precipice of a monumental high-speed rail building effort soon. All THSR needs are two more approvals(which should come sometime next year) and they can begin construction. They already have 30% of the land needed, they have the power of eminent domain, the backing of Amtrak, plus funding for the remainder of the project should be relatively simple to come by if they use the BrightLine model. Amtrak says THSR could be ready by 2030, just two years after BrightLine West and around the same time as California High-Speed Rail. If all three can be joined together then a a Highspeed rail revolution in America is certain!

  • @car24dude
    @car24dude 8 місяців тому +2

    The US needs more high speed trains. Oil companies Exxon -Mobile, Shell, BP, Marathon, and more is afraid of high speed trains.
    The US will never catch up with the number of tracks that China has.

  • @FBA-Renaissance
    @FBA-Renaissance 7 місяців тому +1

    5:45 - MAKE IT ONE HOUR 😎

  • @TheEbbemonster
    @TheEbbemonster 7 місяців тому +4

    I am glad to se the US is finally starting to see the light. It terms of transportation the US feels like a third world country compared to Europe, Japan and China.

    • @matthewwelsh294
      @matthewwelsh294 2 місяці тому

      The US is freaking a third world country from the healthcare system to transportation

  • @johnscanlan9335
    @johnscanlan9335 Місяць тому

    I've been hearing about the coming of this fantastic new train line since I first moved to Vegas in 2001 and it still hasn't happened!!!

  • @cloroxbleach2520
    @cloroxbleach2520 6 місяців тому +1

    Cool it with the overediting

  • @sneakyvee
    @sneakyvee 5 місяців тому +1

    2:05 says max 125mph on their website where did you get 230mph from? lol.

  • @osmanhossain676
    @osmanhossain676 8 місяців тому +2

    I always want California High-Speed Rail in California and Brightline West and I always love California High-Speed Rail in California and Brightline West.😮

  • @erichchan3
    @erichchan3 8 місяців тому +1

    High speed rail needs to be a thing for strategic parts of the US. I think its too far fetched to have a national US high speed line at this point but I think if we can see mini projects be successful it will draw more funding and interesting in states to invest in high speed rail.

  • @jon134a
    @jon134a 8 місяців тому +1

    Las Vegas should build subway from BL Station along LV blvd for more convenience.

  • @gto433
    @gto433 8 місяців тому +5

    Uber should sponsor such a project. Less people will reach these cities with their own cars.

  • @sujatabarman8940
    @sujatabarman8940 7 місяців тому +1

    Good News that USA is building High spped Bullet train, our India is also developing 250 kmph speed Bullet train,

  • @fiddleronthecube7835
    @fiddleronthecube7835 7 місяців тому +1

    All hot air. I'm not holding my breath.

  • @stickynorth
    @stickynorth 8 місяців тому +2

    I for one this this railway will be a model for high(er) speed rail in North America for several reasons... By using existing public Interstate ROW you don't have to battle/pay off private land owners who could drag out the project in court for decades and by keeping to a slightly slower overall running speed you also save on engineering costs while still offering competitive travel times. Even with a single electrified track WITH DOUBLE-TRACK PASSING SECTIONS as is designed you could easily offer services each way every 30 minutes without having to fully double-track the line.. And for more capacity? Just keep adding cars.. TGV's and Shinkansen's running on the same power grid can handle up to 16 cars with seating for over 1200 people per train which is amazing to think about!
    My only other advice? Offer a budget train option on the same line for people who think the ticket price is too high... In Europe? Ouigo offers the same speed of service on its fastest lines but with higher density-budget seating offering... Like a Southwest/Spirit Airlines but on rails... For those who only want to pay $10 AND watch a fight over $4 soda's it will be fantastic... Dinner and a show on the way to Vegas! Double your entertainment value, folks!

  • @TheEbbemonster
    @TheEbbemonster 7 місяців тому +1

    Great video! The risk of building a single train in the USA is the lacking interconnectedness. They need a China-scale investment and tons of lines to ripe the benefits.

  • @musaurelius7144
    @musaurelius7144 8 місяців тому +1

    You made a video some months ago with the new Nile Delta. Sense then the Egyptian Goverment has made a new project about the Qattara Depression. Maybe that could the topic of a future video? :) Also the Space Stations could be interesting to cover. :D

  • @shwmehvn
    @shwmehvn 29 днів тому

    But why is the train not pulling into LA (Union Station)? It's not even pulling into LA County, but 45 miles out in Rancho Cucamonga (San Bernardino County). LA Union Station is Southern California's rail nexus where Metro, Metrolink, and Amtrak meet.

  • @RcottR
    @RcottR 8 місяців тому +2

    California High Speed Rail is the definition of stupidity. Why San Fran to LA where there heaps of competition. San Diego to LA makes more economic sense. Hopefully this project can take advantage of this opportunity as part of Stage 2

  • @REDRex408
    @REDRex408 8 місяців тому +2

    We were on the lead during the late 1800s then everything slowed down

  • @mx338
    @mx338 5 місяців тому

    They should try to get their trains onto local tracks in LA, so they have more convenient inner city stops, like European high speed rail lines usually have.

  • @osmanhossain676
    @osmanhossain676 8 місяців тому +1

    I always want California High-Speed Rail in California and I always love California High-Speed Rail in California.😮

  • @Levi_Landon_2024
    @Levi_Landon_2024 5 місяців тому

    Here’s My Plan:
    Phase 1: Las Vegas > Rancho Cucamonga
    Phase 2: Rancho Cucamonga > LA Union (Runs On Metrolink Track)

  • @RT-xj7el
    @RT-xj7el 5 місяців тому

    Hope it works! It'll cost at least double the initial budget though. These always do.

  • @guy-claudeeleka5351
    @guy-claudeeleka5351 7 місяців тому +2

    3:09 wth are they doing 😂😭😭

  • @JasonPengo
    @JasonPengo Місяць тому

    If it went all the way to L.A. it might make a bit more sense. I don't know why they start the line in Rancho Cucamunga which is like 60 miles east of L.A.

  • @osmanhossain676
    @osmanhossain676 8 місяців тому +2

    Yes and yeah of course California High-Speed Rail in California.😮

  • @bbbeezy
    @bbbeezy 8 місяців тому +3

    I’m cautiously optimistic for this project. The single track issue hopefully won’t turn out to be much of an issue, but it’s still disappointing.
    The bigger issue for me is the line terminating in Rancho Cucamonga instead of Union Station. I think this could be a major impediment to achieving max ridership, especially for people who don’t live in or are visiting the inland empire.

    • @Ven100
      @Ven100 7 місяців тому +2

      The Metrolink line will be receiving upgrades so this really won't be a big deal.

  • @osmanhossain676
    @osmanhossain676 8 місяців тому +1

    Yes and yeah of course California High-Speed Rail in California and Brightline West.😮

  • @JoyClinton-i8g
    @JoyClinton-i8g 4 місяці тому

    The LA-LV Brightline might get sidetracked (pun intended) because Alstom has been deemed an "unavailable" HSR train manufacturer by the FRA due to all the non-compliance items on the HSR trains they are trying to sell to Amtrak. Alstom is now suing Siemens (the proposed LA-LV train supplier) and the FRA because the Siemens HSR trains won't meet "Buy America" provisions and require an FRA waiver.

  • @Deepak1233-c3t
    @Deepak1233-c3t 8 місяців тому +2

    Which bullet train come in this route

  • @jamesgoodman9259
    @jamesgoodman9259 5 місяців тому

    It's all about population density in the US. Maybe in higher density New England it can be economical without subsidies, but not many other places.

  • @Dargini
    @Dargini 7 місяців тому +1

    Hope they have cheap long term parking for it

  • @mikeyrobles2977
    @mikeyrobles2977 2 місяці тому

    We can't even maintain the rest of our aging infrastructure (I.E roadways, bridges ect. Ect....) without them falling apart, failing,or collapsing first so i doubt adding even more infrastructure for us all to worry about, prevent its aging, and be sure we are maintaining, would be the best idea. We need to get things in order first before expanding further i think.

  • @stevefox898
    @stevefox898 7 місяців тому +1

    Better work more efficiently than the Orlando to Miami service. Late running trains, numerous fatalities, rude staff and indifferent customer service.

    • @stevefox898
      @stevefox898 7 місяців тому +1

      @@A-Wesker-5
      You are not looking hard enough. Try reading negative posts on Tripadvisor.

  • @arxligion
    @arxligion 6 місяців тому +1

    This is cool and all but Phoenix would be more useful

  • @WilliamLi-nd4lz
    @WilliamLi-nd4lz Місяць тому

    This is my proclamation. This will NEVER get done without overspending by AT LEAST 100%

  • @rolandsrepetto9907
    @rolandsrepetto9907 8 місяців тому +1

    3:28 why only a single track? is it safe enough?

    • @triplethreatpodcasts
      @triplethreatpodcasts 8 місяців тому +1

      Yes, there are signals. Single track is surprisingly common

    • @ddddirge
      @ddddirge 8 місяців тому +1

      Single track so that they finished sooner
      Maybe they'll add second track in the future

    • @mrxman581
      @mrxman581 8 місяців тому

      Probably not safe especially in the middle of a highway. It hasn't been done anywhere else in the world.

    • @kyrieelite
      @kyrieelite 8 місяців тому

      To cut costs and not room for double tracking in the highway median all the way. In the long term, the highway median should be widened to allow for double tracking

    • @triplethreatpodcasts
      @triplethreatpodcasts 8 місяців тому +3

      @@mrxman581 Rail in highway medians is remarkably common from subways, light rail, commuter rai, and Amtrak. The US has the strictest safety laws which is why there are walls making it an isolated corridor. Here's from their engineering study "The Project would construct a raised access road on the east side of I-15, an elevated railway with retaining walls in the I-15 median". Single tracking is common around the world, Spain even made a single tracked highspeed rail line. This project has imported the safest technology from around the world including the signaling system, the same used on the single tracked HSR line in Spain. It does exist and it is proven to be safe.

  • @kennyo673
    @kennyo673 7 місяців тому +1

    I'm not excited about this destination cause I think it should stretch longer maybe from northern California to los Angeles to las vegas

  • @patriot-wf1er
    @patriot-wf1er 7 місяців тому +1

    Lets see if the crooked politicians and bureaucrats can keep their hands out of the build money.

  • @MichelPetkovic
    @MichelPetkovic 4 місяці тому

    This is a great project...Finally, USA will have decent trains for the 21st century. However, I don't understand why only single track, since double track is the standard in most countries that have high-speed rail...and secondly, why is the station located in Ranch Cucamonga, It's too far from downtown LA.

  • @Dumbrarere
    @Dumbrarere 7 місяців тому +1

    It's worth noting that distances had nothing to do with holding back high speed rail projects (Let's be fair, if distance was really a concern, the Transcontinental Railroad would never have happened). Competition with cars and planes were initially a factor, but with rail travel making a resurgence, the primary factor holding these projects back is NIMBY and people constantly taking these projects to court in order to make it too expensive for the projects to keep going EVEN IF THE STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ARE LEGALLY OBLIGATED TO FUND AND FULLY COMPLETE THEM.

  • @krzyskolak8007
    @krzyskolak8007 7 місяців тому +1

    and keep it up, the future and the 15h as you know is not very passable

  • @mattpackwood6737
    @mattpackwood6737 4 місяці тому +2

    Misleading cover picture. The new high-speed rail will not go into LA itself. It ends in Rancho Cucamonga - 45 miles from downtown LA. Get your facts straight.

  • @themotorcyclezeroshow
    @themotorcyclezeroshow 18 днів тому

    A less convenient form of transportation than driving that takes more time and cost more money… yeah, it’s totally gonna be successful.

  • @PlayShorts3
    @PlayShorts3 8 місяців тому +1

    If this was China, the rail line would have finished before the 2026 world cup.

  • @InterstellarRefugee
    @InterstellarRefugee 8 місяців тому +1

    That ticket price is simply far too high. They should add a gambling car that kicks on as soon as you cross the border to supplement ticket prices. High Desert folks won't pay more than 100 for this

  • @THE_IRON_HORSE
    @THE_IRON_HORSE 7 місяців тому +1

    America has been had a high speed trainset, the amtrak acela but it was never able to run full speed as the territory it runs in is 100 yr old plus infrastructure that was never improved causing the train go only arlund 90-125 mph, but hopefully brighline can save us all, there doijg good in Florida so inhave a good feeling, kinda hope BR west can use a variant of the SCB-40 chargers cuz ion like that new trainset 😂😂

  • @grimreaper1430
    @grimreaper1430 4 місяці тому

    Party train to Vegas! Yeah!!

  • @jhonatanmiranda5289
    @jhonatanmiranda5289 7 місяців тому +1

    This video is wrong on a lot of the information given. It takes close to 5-6 hours from LA TO VEGAS.

  • @SoCalHighIron
    @SoCalHighIron 8 місяців тому +5

    2:05 Not sure where 230 mph is coming from... Brightline in Florida travels at a max speed of 125 mph. Globally the threshold for what is considered "high-speed rail" is 155 mph (250 kph). I can't wait to ride this train!

    • @mrxman581
      @mrxman581 8 місяців тому +1

      The average speed will be around 100 mph on this train. That's very disappointing if the top speed is around 186 mph.

    • @SoCalHighIron
      @SoCalHighIron 8 місяців тому

      @@mrxman581 Average speed is definitely more important than top speed. CAHSR is going to blow it away in terms of average speed.

    • @giacomogiordano7348
      @giacomogiordano7348 8 місяців тому +1

      I think 230 is for the train max speed, not the operational speed

    • @kyrieelite
      @kyrieelite 8 місяців тому

      Video said 230kph not mph

    • @kyrieelite
      @kyrieelite 8 місяців тому

      @@giacomogiordano7348and it’s in kph for the current brightline route in FL. 230kph is ~140mph which Brightline only really reaches on the way to the Orlando airport

  • @higherarchy___
    @higherarchy___ 3 місяці тому

    US - cheap gas, free highways, long distances
    EU - expensive gas, uber expensive tolls, short distances
    I will not bet a single dollar on HSR in US

  • @HollywoodF1
    @HollywoodF1 Місяць тому

    That works out to $75 of each ticket to pay off the private capital investment in 10 years.

  • @GrantieDattAznn
    @GrantieDattAznn 5 місяців тому

    I wonder how much tickets are. Can't be more than a plane ticket right ?

  • @Dkrpan59
    @Dkrpan59 7 місяців тому +1

    One track is sufficient to last vegas look the time and money not so bright line would save

  • @MrCubflyer
    @MrCubflyer 7 місяців тому +1

    This country is very very far behind in the Rail transport business for one thing its very expensive to go anywhere and it usually takes forever , I was in Norway and you can get just about anywhere by train and most places have high speed trains also it doesn't cost an arm and leg to travel.

  • @michaelsmiley15
    @michaelsmiley15 7 місяців тому +1

    Construction has not begun
    Ground Breaking is not construction
    They are way behind schedule for making there deadline

  • @JohnEnnen
    @JohnEnnen 4 місяці тому

    I will believe it when I see it!.....................Talking about this for the last 40 years+

  • @Hal-uq5qv
    @Hal-uq5qv 25 днів тому

    Just copy what Japan already accomplished. Their country is about the size of California. Their trains use a magnetic type of energy without the need for an electrical antennae wire sticking on top to get it going. Also, their tracks have an earthquake detecting tech that stops the train from going during a quake which the state could use. And are monitored with cameras to prevent tampering

  • @Kakkoii_otoko
    @Kakkoii_otoko 2 місяці тому

    Ok. Ill believe it when it happens.

  • @dxelson
    @dxelson 8 місяців тому +8

    I dont think there are any single track HSR in China, Europe or Japan 😂

    • @asetiawan73
      @asetiawan73 8 місяців тому +1

      Same here in Indonesia is double track and can reach 350kmh

    • @Hastdupech8509
      @Hastdupech8509 8 місяців тому +6

      Yeah that's an accident waiting to happen. That's why these infrastructural projects get built by the State, privates value revenues over safety

    • @mrxman581
      @mrxman581 8 місяців тому +1

      ​@@Hastdupech8509Exactly, and built it on the cheap even if it results in degraded service. Why? Because it's about profit, not service.

    • @CraigFThompson
      @CraigFThompson 8 місяців тому

      ​@@mrxman581"For profit, not service";
      Sounds like the airlines, especially given the fact that they virtually stay airborne on governmental oversubsidization....

    • @Ven100
      @Ven100 8 місяців тому +2

      You should do your research. Spain has implemented single-track on its HSR network. It's like some of you have never heard of computer modeling or proper headway scheduling. 😏

  • @ashho313
    @ashho313 7 місяців тому +1

    And to this day we don't ride rail with

  • @alancampos8906
    @alancampos8906 8 місяців тому +2

    3:13 first ? Are you sure ?

    • @mrxman581
      @mrxman581 8 місяців тому

      Yeah, no, that would be CAHSR.

    • @kyrieelite
      @kyrieelite 8 місяців тому

      lol everyone pretends Acela doesn’t exist

    • @alancampos8906
      @alancampos8906 8 місяців тому

      @@kyrieelite right! And they already got a Bright line train in Florida and the California high speed rail will finalize soon.

    • @bonaz11
      @bonaz11 6 місяців тому

      @@kyrieelite cause it's not HSR

  • @zackatwood2867
    @zackatwood2867 8 місяців тому +2

    between RanCh0 CucAMoNgA and Vegas

  • @aeroaa2
    @aeroaa2 8 місяців тому

    why is your audio/mic so low on this video