Construction begins on high speed rail line in Las Vegas
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- Опубліковано 27 кві 2024
- Construction has begun in Las Vegas on what will be the fastest train line in the United States. The line will connect to existing rails in Los Angeles, with the trip between the two destinations expected to take about two hours. Elise Preston has more.
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I’m not really sure what BART has to do with this.
Bart is a differenty type of rapid transit unlike New York Subway, the trains run on indian gauge track which is wider than standard gauge track.
idk either but its a nice feature i suppose lol!
They randomly squished together two almost completely unrelated stories. The only things they had in common were they about passenger rail somewhere in California.
sounds like the intern was asked to squeeze an extra story in there so the intern went with Bart
It has *nothing* to do with Brightline West, they're *irrelevant* to each other. The reporter did a *terrible job* with this news story, plain and simple...
Did they just compare high speed rail to BART?😂😂😂😂
Why is the thumbnail the old station platform at Sacramento when this train isn't even going there?
Meanwhile, France and Japan have had High Speed Rail since *1969* for petes sake!
Thanks for the history lesson.
1964 for Japan, 1981 for France. And since, China, Germany, Italy, Spain ... And all faster than this one will be.
Still a good thing, though.
Thanks Kawasaki for the first Bullet Train.
If you knew anything about american history, and how politics prevented hsr, you wouldn't be making these tenuous comments.
they didn't have trickle down low taxes on the rich to deal with.
I was born and raised in Las Vegas and they have been talking about this for about 30 years. I want to believe it’s really happening but it’s been a myth/legend for my entire life.
The odds are better that you'll see Big Foot gambling at the State Line before you'll see a Bullet Train to Vegas.
It's happening right now. Don't you have ears to hear? They've just broken ground and started actually working and digging.
@@yagi3925 I said “born and raised” - I haven’t lived there in a decade. My family does
@@rachreid8746 Sure but this is not what I meant. There is obviously some misunderstanding.
Brightline has already built an existing rail line in Florida that’s around hundred miles long. I believe they could build this.
Great news. California will have the first 2 HSR trains in the USA within 6 years. Fantastic!!!
maybe within 60 years the way chsr is going lol
No, this line is being built by the grown-ups from Florida.
You're awfully optimistic about CHSR being finished in this century.
1 is definitely going to be build but the other one is very doubtful. Probably unlikely.
@@tonyburzio4107 They might be able to do the Nevada part fast enough, but just wait until they get to CA. The California bureaucracy will grind them to a slow crawl
People in more-devoloped countries laugh at this news story.
I'm from Europe and while the US is far behind in terms of high speed rail, this is good news and a sign that there is a will to develop a decent train network.
No country has better road network then America. DIfferent nations build different things
@@politicalchannel66 That is not true, Germany has better network of highway and High Speed Train than U.S.A..President Eisenhower ideas of the highway came from being in Germany during WWII. I lived in Germany. The Republic party do not support High Speed Train. They stand in the way as road block.
And laugh at the fact that Las Vegas is the last big city in the country to have any rail light/subway system.
better late than never I guess
It’s a real shame they couldn’t get Brightline West to go all the way to Union Station in LA right from the start of service.
@joermnyc....Once you get to The Brightline Rail Stop in Southern California...You can connect with The Metrolink Light Rail and it will connect you with the Counties
of Los Angeles/Orange/Ventura/Riverside/San Bernardino and Oceanside(San Diego County).
@@sagittariusone2753 right, but many people prefer a “one seat ride”.
why they can't continue on existing rails at normal (slow) speed to the Union Station? In Europe high speed trains not only run on high speed tracks, there are many sections shared with regional and freight trains where high speed trains go at slow speed - so you have a "one seat ride".
Railroads were the reason small towns, now big Cities exist today. Lots of prospectors in the early days. Also the reason some are ghost towns now.
This is great. I csn aee myself hopping on one from Vegas to Cali. Get me a rental in Victorville, then head into Palmdale and Lancaster. My hometown.
We'll see because I also like having my car any time I go out if town.
Sure, everyone is really going to hop on a train that will stop everywhere and serving no purpose ( you ever wonder why nobody uses am track? As if a 30, minute flight isn’t better? Didn’t California just built a train like this but going nowhere? Why do you think every major city goes broke? There’s no return when the maintenance comes with it. Las Vegas will not continue growing ( water and federal land) so when this is done the maintenance will kick in. All major cities are broke for this exact reason.
@@anthonymartinez4307 I mean, are you sure nobody uses Amtrak? In the northeast, it’s the best way to travel between DC, Philly, NYC, and the other cities along the corridor. If anything, it demonstrates how train travel, when given it’s dedicated route and not having to adhere to freight, will have its way.
However, Las Vegas needs to build out a proper transit system if it wants to take advantage of the benefits of HSR.
Get your rental.
That's problem.
Rail work well in other countries because people are not so obsessed with cars.
There are not many riders to accommodate in the desert. Then you want rental agencies to set up the booth.
Victorville n Palmdale do have some kind of public transportation, n its time to improve. Wait HSR supporters don't care. They keep using other countries n other places. In other countries, cars are not needed to use rails.
An expensive project cannot even accommodate non car drivers crossing deserts, it's going to lose money just to appease selfish train lovers.
Good news, private company is running show.
Bad news is private company will not suffer the loss that government will take over this train lover toy.
@@Jorge-lh6pxIt works better on the east coast due to the population density where rail really isn’t feasible yet on the west coast where every town is a lot more scattered and it takes longer to get to the next major city.
@@Fatbaddie24 I don’t population density should be the focus. If there is a dedicated CBD, finding a way to access it by rail should be the goal. There are dedicated CBDs in San Fran, San Diego, LA, and other notable Cali cities (besides San Jose, probably the worst of them all).
And what does BART in the bay area have anything to do with the HSR linking LA and Las Vegas?
Nothing...
they needed to meet the minimum word count to get a good grade
Hope it can be rolled out everywhere NYC to SFO/LA
We love Brightline here in FL. This one will be built, if the $ is there. It is. Even when our Government gets involved… Ride one. Big improvement.
Back in the 1980's I rode an Amtrak train from L.A. to Las Vegas. It took 12 hours and we must have stopped a dozen times along the way. Sometimes in the middle of nowhere just to wait for freight trains to pass. And they wondered why nobody used the service.
They're going to share tracks with freight trains in the Cajon Pass. Wastes of money. Numerous train transfers. Nightmare ride. Southwest will be less than an hour.
The Desert Wind went from 1:35 LA to Vegas until 1997 (and continued on to Chicago). There were only four stops between those two cities; Fullerton, San Bernardino, Victorville, and Barstow. It was not fast, but took about seven hours, not twelve. Top speed would have been 79 MPH under the law.
@@pigjubby1This new train runs in exclusive tracks, 99% down the middle of the 15 freeway. No sharing with freight (unlike things like the Desert Wind). Top speed will be 186 MPH. The start of the train is in Rancho Cucamonga, east of LA but west of San Bernardino. There apparently will be two intermediate stations but most trains apparently will only stop at one of them.
Yay! California casino goers like myself will be happy to see an excessive amount of traffic off the route to Las Vegas. If it gets built, it will be time to say "good-bye" to Sunday traffic jams.
Brightline West has *NOTHING* to do with BART. As for the original Legacy cars yes they've been replaced, but it has *nothing* to do with crime or lack of cleanliness. It's being replaced as mentioned because of age and that they have mostly reached the end of its useful life spanning 52 years especially as they're no longer worth the cost of maintenance.
You could have done a better job with the second half of the story, but you didn't. It would have been nice to see some footage of the final run of the legacy cars that took place on 4/20/2024 with hundreds of people like myself that attended. Please do better with the reporting next time...
Didn't know BART originally promised trains every 90-seconds. I'd definitely take BART more often if I didn't have to wait, but I also can't imagine how expensive that would be to run.
They said $400 one way. Or more when you get robbed on it.
Thrilled to hear this!!
The mainstream media having a stroke today lmao
The new bart cars are very clean and nice, with great upgrades. But they feel like every other metro system.
Highway to hell from hell through hell.
Riders will get to know each other really well in those hours long delays at the Cajon Pass.
Society is going broke ( people) the major cities are already broke, everyone is cheering now up until the tax bill comes in.
Did you know that Brightline is a land development company that happens to build trains between their property hubs? The new Vegas Strip is going to be built around the train station as the old strip becomes sports arenas. Just down the road at the California border, a second international airport for freight is being built along with a new city to support operations, and guess who owns a lot of the land out there in the middle of nowhere? You guessed it!
It is very common in Japan and China for rail companies to own land around the train station. They wouldn't have the rail network they do without such. Brightline is just reusing that winning formula.
@@Geotpf this has been happening for centuries all over the world. They build a train station first, and build development around it. Exactly like you say in japan and china, but ancient europe has been doing this for decades and centuries. Amsterdam train station fot build first, and the city got build arround it. But this is to difficult to understand for many americans, as they have a car and aircraft brain only, as that is their only point of reference.
That's a cool Diesel.
Seems promising but a very daunting task for something like this
140mph is NOT HIGH SPEED!
by definition it quite literally is
Late, but at least they are starting now ._.
They would not imagine a train would be soaked by urine 50 years later.
It doesn't stop at the strip and it doesn't go to Los Angeles. It stops 45 minutes away from LA in Rancho Cucomongo. Well I guess its better than nothing
What the heck does High Speed Rail have to do with BART. Honestly, reporters these days with their connect the dots reasoning.
Faster than i run? 😅😅
How much money have Vegas casinos and businesses made for decades and decades, and yet people complain - why was this not built sooner?
Because it can't be done. hey will not be able to build a separate pair of tracks through the Cajon Pass and will need to share tracks with freight trains. Delays galore. Getting from skidrow in downtown Los Angeles to Ranch Cucamonga to transfer trains is another mess
WELCOME TO BULLET TRAIN FAMILY.......AMERICANS.
Where have you been all these past decades ?????
Living away from the cities. Which is why this won’t work out.
Nice to know
We need High speed rail that goes across the country if you build it they will ride it we need coast to coast highspeed rail
Casino owners: ha ha, suckers!
It actually doesn't go into Las Vegas. That's like saying the Hoover Dam is in Las Vegas. You still need to take another mode of transportation to get to the city you mention. The private company helping to build this is doing the easy construction. The urban build, if extended, will cost significantly more per mile.
It's about time
Wow, monorail looks cool 🚝🤩🥳
They talked about this for decades. And now in 3 1/2 yrs we're gonna pay $400 to get to Vegas when a 35min flight is $120 RT.
Costs should be about the same as a flight. They won't be able to stay in business if they aren't.
@@GeotpfSouthwest will price dump ONT to LAS at $25 a seat, and Brightline west will be in BK court fast.
Yup, and raising the 7.25 minimum wage will cause inflation. Oh, wait....
Unnecessary ✈🤮🤮🤮
So is this going to cost 4X more just like the train to nowhere?
I suggest you do some research on Brightline and how they are able to execute their intercity rail from Miami to Orlando, then you wouldn't be making tenuous remarks of idiocracy like what you just did.
@@CatpoopTacos Miami to Florida does not go through the Cajon Pass.
@@pigjubby1 Do you mean Miami to Orlando? Of course it doesn't. If its not painfully obvious yet, I was implying that the Brightline business model is based off of real estate, private funds, and government grants. So its not going to "cost 4X more just like the train to nowhere"
Since when were LA and San Francisco "nowhere"
Wonderfu job; train really fast!! Like La Bala
It’s should go to Oakland to las Vegas! Las Vegas stole it
LETS GOOOOOOO
i like how american car rain commenters fail to cope with this. While if they go to europe they love it. America for sure is a world on its own. The reason why you dont have highspeed rail in a lot of places is exactly because of your car brain mentality.
When you say so, European lmao.
The chinese are laughing
and I'm eating chowmein
Thats nice that they found something to laugh at while their economy is tanking and all their cheap construction is going unsold/ falling apart
😮
It will end at the California border. California started there other High Speed Rail 20 years ago and they are 10% complete and is asking for $100 billion more. It was to cost $40 billion total.
I'll fly Southwest and be there one hour beforr any train.
More people can be moved by train than on one airplane.
@@jojopuppyfish You are right. That's why there are lots of planes.
A plane takes about an hour. But you need to show up at the gate an hour before the flight. And ad another hour for security, parking, etc. It takes about 3 hours total. Plus Southwest is cheaper when you buy 14 days in advance. The train you show up 10 minutes before, buy the ticket at the ticket booth. Oh and no TSA. Much faster.
Unnecessary ✈ 🤮🤮🤮🤮
@@cyberslacker5150 Okay...Arrive at Union Station 30 minutes before train to Ranch Cucamonga. Leave car at downtown Los Angeles (that alone is bad). 60 minuts via public transportation to Ranch Cucamonga with the homeless and druggies. After waiting for nest train and boarding another 60 minutes. Freight train traffic in the Cajon Pass. 120 minutes. Multiple stops in Victorville, Barstow, Baker, Henderson. 60 minutes. 5-6hours total.
CBS Evening News, This made me laugh so much! Thanks for sharing!
Why did it make you laugh?
Never going to happen. LA to San Francisco is never going to be built either.
yay!!! it will be ready in 20 years just like the train in California
What no Hyperloop? 😂😂😂
Fastest train line in America
China: pathetic
One more reason to stay away from the world's biggest ashtray....
Here in Atlanta there’s MARTA…Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta
So more people can get robbed
There are security checkpoints at the stations you know.
Yup. Another Crime Train.
Terrible story. Stay on topic next time
2 hrs to get there from L.A? China, Japan, South Korea laughing. They should name it the Sloth line.
Yeah...35K jobs....mostly in construction but not as many permanent jobs. Kinda misleading the truth!
2028 seems highly unlikely. 2038 probably.
Orlando - Miami took Brightline 4 years to build and it was 235 miles vs 218 miles and wasn't across mostly open country.
They can't WAIT to get this done.....the sooner the better....let the gambler loser come...one and all!!
😂😂😂😂😂
When will it be completed ? 2050 ???
2028 🥳🥳🎉🎉🎉
They need this now so that people can get out as fast as they can.
and get in as fast, if not even faster
I doubt people in LA who are trying to leave have Vegas at the top of their list or vis versa.
And Bart took 2 years of testing to open 2 stations. 2 years. Just for testing. On an existing system. Brightline is supposed to build a whole new system with tracks, stations, ticketing, maintenance, power lines, power substations, AND test it all in 4 years? Okay.....
This is shameful. Turbo CA $ to NV. What a plan.
This has bad idea all over it
Bro first high speed rail in USA and it goes to Vegas-LA. Pete is the worst
East coast needs them way more than starting it here on the west coast
Pete is honestly the worst Transportation safety we have ever had.
Brightline is trying to show that it is possible in America to run a privately run railroad profitably. So far in Florida, with public used land on highway medians and leveraging existing track that has been upgraded some between Miami and Ft. Myers they have a train running from Miami to Orlando much faster than a car could do it. Problem is, the train after launch is not full and it is still losing money. Now they are building a second line here where they think they can make money. We will see if either route that they create can make money or if the federal government has to take it over in the next decade because they cannot run either route profitably. The idea is great but not sure if it will ever work even if in Florida they expand the route to Tampa.
brightline florida makes money, and it brings 2 billion in xtra tax reveue for the state of california.
@@lexburen5932 From the Wall Street Journal: "Brightline, though, is still losing money. According to its quarterly financial statement released Dec. 29, 2023, it posted a net loss of $192 million between Jan. 1 and Sept. 30 of 2023. During the same period in 2022, it posted a net loss of $201 million." Where did you read it actually made any money? I would love to see it. The company is going to need money to build another train line in CA if this keeps up.
A 2 hour ride with no bathrooms
Bathrooms are a standard on all high speed trains.
@@gabetalks9275On any train except metros even.
You've never taken a train before?!? Every carriage has at least 1 bathrooms more like 2!
This is America...no one cares...yet!😂😂😂😂
Once I get to Rancho Cucamonga, THEN WHAT?!? Anyone who knows L.A. knows you NEED a car to get around L.A.!!! 🤷🏼♂️
The main point is for people to get from LA to Vegas. In which case you drive your car to the Rancho Cucamonga train station, leave it there while you are gone, and it will be there waiting for you when you return
They are going to advertise linking up passengers with Metrolink, which will take people between downtown LA and Rancho.
@@patrisio3 That will take two hours. Then getting stuck in the Cajon Pass waiting on freight train lines will be another two hours. Southwest is less than an hour.
@@pigjubby1 Flying is an hour in the air plus 2 more hours going through the airport and TSA
@@pigjubby1Brightline West uses all new tracks. No sharing with freight.
The train will take more than 2 hours and driving will take 2 hours 40 minutes with good traffic anytime that is non Friday afternoon going east and Sunday going west. Flying is faster and cheaper, especially from LA or San Diego. Such a big waste of money.
It's always faster to drive, or take a plane. Trains are not needed in the US.
Will be over budget guaranteed and nobody will ride it when you can drive to Vegas/LA, take a bus, or fly. For the whiners about Japan, I live here. We can only use 15% of the land since there are so many mountains and need to move thousands of people in a day.
What even is this piece
Why are we building high speed rail to a city that shouldn't exist
Because they are building a second one? Just across the border into Nevada.
I live in Las Vegas most of the people here don't want this train
I'd say 99% of people in LV don't want it!!!
What about finishing the one that was started in Hawaii that not only was behind schedule but has now ran out of money to finish it. SMH. Just bring out the hover boards already
More homeless problems.
Why aren't they covering how this will bring the homeless here from LA?!?
Then a car has an accident and ends up on the track. The highspeed trains then hit the car, derail and hit car on both sides of the track. Fun
It will not have road crossings....like the Northeast Corridor (from Wash to Boston) and/or like all other high speed lines throughout the world.
Shall we now detail the potential hazards of air travel?
@Patrisio.... High speed lines in Europe have railroad crossing
@s.p.8803
Wonderful that you know that. But we aren’t In Europe
@@MoserBagel I was responding to the person who said there weren't railroad crossings for high speed trains in the World
They should build the hyperloop instead.
I AGREE. THIS IS A STUPID PROJECT. ELON MUST STEP IN.
Bro... A hyperloop is a worse version of a train. It has less capacity, is more expensive, and prone to breakdowns. This high-speed rail has already been proven to be effective in other countries to be effective.
1. Less Capacity:
- In comparison to traditional, proven high-speed trains, which can accommodate hundreds of passengers in a single carriage, hyperloop pods have a significantly smaller capacity. For instance, a typical high-speed train might have several carriages, each capable of seating hundreds of passengers, while a hyperloop pod may only accommodate a fraction of that number, potentially limiting its usefulness for mass transit.
- Consider the Shinkansen bullet trains in Japan, which can carry over 1,000 passengers in a single train set, far surpassing the capacity of any proposed hyperloop system.
2. More Expensive:
- The construction and maintenance costs associated with hyperloop technology can be substantially higher than those of traditional, proven high-speed train systems. For example, the need for specialized infrastructure, such as vacuum tubes and airlocks, adds significant expenses to the overall project.
- Proposed hyperloop projects have faced numerous budgetary challenges, with cost estimates ballooning far beyond initial projections, making it considerably more expensive than comparable high-speed rail alternatives.
3. Prone to Breakdowns:
- Hyperloop systems, with their reliance on advanced technology and complex infrastructure, may be more susceptible to technical failures and breakdowns compared to simpler, proven high-speed train systems.
- Despite rigorous testing and development, the experimental nature of hyperloop technology introduces inherent risks of malfunction, which could lead to service disruptions and safety concerns.
- An incident during testing in which a hyperloop pod experienced a critical failure, resulting in a temporary shutdown of the entire system, highlighted the potential vulnerability of this mode of transportation to breakdowns.
@@bikedawg Yeah, bring Elon in! He’ll be sure to run it as amazingly as he’s running Twi- I mean X into the ground.
No thanks, I prefer technology that actually works.
no 😂
To be known by future generations as the "Buttigieg Boondoggle"
History won't remember Pete. What they will remember was how Brightline learned to deal with Feds, Florida is all in-state, on their way to being the nations carrier for all passenger trains.
Wow who's really cares