Officials broke ground Monday on a new high-speed rail system that will connect Southern California and Las Vegas. Bailey Miller reports for the NBC4 News on April 22, 2024.
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@sushifornico3 ай бұрын
I really want this to work - USA deserves high speed train!!! Despite jobs - also a way to cut travel time and emission!
@mrvwbug44233 ай бұрын
If Brightline West and Texas Central are successful that really opens the door. We've never had a real HSR line, Acela is semi-HSR, less than half its route operates above 125mph and there's only 56mi where it can actually run at its 150mph top speed.
@sushifornico3 ай бұрын
as a European high speed is so much nicer and relaxing . hope that both are successful and you get to experience this @@mrvwbug4423
@andrewyoung32993 ай бұрын
If I remember, Princeton Junction in New Jersey, and somewhere near Providence in Rhode Island is where the Acela can run at its top speed on the NEC
@mrminingplays3 ай бұрын
fr
@commentorsilensor37343 ай бұрын
It doesn't cut travel time n emissions. People still need cars. Don't bring the necessity of owning cars to use rails. That's dumb idea. Other HSR friendly countries do not require cars to use rails. HSR is expensive. This private company will eventually sell the rails to government. You need at least 80 million annual ridership. You have to pick n drop people at each location to generate lo5s of ridership. If it's point to point, it's not going to work. Dream on Texas. Texas is an oil Red state. What will it make work.? Stop at major city n town. Pick n drop as many people at each station. Good luck in the empty desert. Oh, check Japan, you don't need cars at each station. Ideally, CAHSR makes more sense because it passes more cities. The problem is rail supporters hate public transportation. Besides SF, public transportation at future CAHSR has below F grade. HSR supporters are hypocrite. They keep mentioning reduce emissions, but they will not do anything to promote local public transportation.
@mattyice65213 ай бұрын
About time. The US should have a high speed rail system across the country.
@Da__goat3 ай бұрын
You want it, pay for it yourself.
@niggalini3 ай бұрын
@@Da__goat why not emulate the model of highways and airports? The state/federal government built the infrastructure, but private companies pay back into it to operate mass transport such as buses and airplanes
@ernestz.92603 ай бұрын
It would be too costly and impractical in the short term to have a country wide network but at least regional high speed rail will help a lot
@theendurance3 ай бұрын
@@ernestz.9260 regional networks can easily extend to country wide networks. of course, no ones saying make a rail line over 300 miles of emptyness out in idaho. but this country is plenty dense for rail, especially the east coast and southwest
@crowmob-yo6ry3 ай бұрын
@@Da__goat You do the same with your precious highways first.
@tallperson1173 ай бұрын
Japan's bullet train was also years over the estimate and multiple times over budget. Nowadays, no one gives a crap and just talks about how amazing and convenient it is. HSR is definitely needed and will be amazingly convenient. Cost and time shouldn't be a factor.
@FOHguy3 ай бұрын
Actually the people who talk about Japan's bullet train that way are mostly foreigners. The Japanese people are kind of, .......meh about it.
@jamescc20103 ай бұрын
Love HSR...Rode in EU and Japan, and always think we really need them here fast. We care so far behind.
@The_king5672 ай бұрын
There is private and my taxes shouldn’t pay for this
@The_king5672 ай бұрын
@@jamescc2010you are lying
@disconnection725 күн бұрын
@@FOHguy Me when I lie
@Zergcerebrates3 ай бұрын
They should extend it into Union Station.
@rollinia77703 ай бұрын
Meant that more people with free Access Pass can ride free including their service pets or guest.
@tonyburzio41073 ай бұрын
The train is to help businesses moving to Nevada. Rancho Cucamonga will be a business hub for companies transitioning.
@yellowpsychopath3 ай бұрын
@@tonyburzio4107 Yeah but how many are people from Rancho Cucamonga are gonna be using it
@mrvwbug44233 ай бұрын
That's in the long term plan. To build it to LA Union up front would've more than doubled the cost of the project, remember this is a mostly privately funded project, Brightline had to go with what they could afford, federal and state grants only fund a small part of the project, Brightline is paying for most of this themselves. There is also an opportunity to install line upgrades and electrification on the San Bernidino line that would improve line speeds and capacity for Metrolink as they will be ferrying Brigthline passengers to LA. Electrification could also allow the Brightline trains to do the RC to LA portion on the existing Metrolink track without the extreme expense of building the HSR line all the way to LA, the RC to LA portion would just be at a max of 125mph depending on line upgrades.
@AMPProf3 ай бұрын
should not build Shut down la and vegas Long Live Free California
@SonidoMazizo3 ай бұрын
The negativity in this thread is why there’s never hope for fast rail here lol
@Chino567513 ай бұрын
Because all the train nuts obsesses over it and keep raising noise over it
@Da__goat3 ай бұрын
Because it costs 50% more than estimates and taxes 40% longer. By the time it completes it becomes irrelevant and corruption runs rampant.
@dontlookatmypants3 ай бұрын
@@Da__goat you fail to mention the amount of tax payer money wasted on highways that don't even make a single dime. Not to mention how corrupt oil lobbyists have been since the 50s when they bulldozed neighborhoods with their pockets being the only thing that matters to them. If anything, corrupt Republicans are the reason these projects stall and become prolonged. It's a political 'power trip' play to make the other party look incompetent. We need trains, it literally benefits everyone, and with a thorough discussion anyone would come to that conclusion. It alleviates traffic , provides ALTERNATIVES to one singular form of transportation ( which is very restraining and cost consuming), and generates economic growth through transit oriented development and the impact it has on surrounding areas. So tell me, how is a train bad? And labeling everything that benefits the public as communist isn't an argument whatsoever. I say we get the ball rolling on this so it can eventually foster more high speed development around the states. There are countless projects that have been extremely close to fruition and end up being killed by conservative politicians at the last second. All these instances date as far back as the late 70s- early 90s- late 2000s. ( Twin cities, Milwaukee & Wisconsin) It's time we start being selfless and make this place more multi modal for our future generations. Better infrastructure and urbanism is a good thing
@kingkoopa643 ай бұрын
The concern of psr usage
@janetpearson14553 ай бұрын
because of the waste its just a money grab
@user-ue7qy3co9s3 ай бұрын
This is the way forward. High speed rails across the entire country.
@LifeLongLearner2223 ай бұрын
So make it nation wide! The US is so behind on national transportation.
@ffjsb3 ай бұрын
That's why we have AIRPORTS....
@LifeLongLearner2223 ай бұрын
@@ffjsb Getting on a train takes minutes. Getting to the airport and actually boarding your plane takes hours.
@EnjoyFirefighting3 ай бұрын
@@ffjsb AIRPORTS only serve the two cities they take off and land, and no place in between. Also you are limited in size, amoung and weight of luggage, have to be there quite a bit before the flight takes off, check-in and security checks all take quite a bit of time, apart from the time it takes to go to the airport first
@AmbushRL.3 ай бұрын
@@EnjoyFirefighting Why is this an argument? No one is taking high speed rail across the country. Nationwide rail would help people get from anywhere from anywhere.
@ffjsb3 ай бұрын
@@LifeLongLearner222 No it doesn't.
@WorldCitizenW3 ай бұрын
Car manufacturers, oil executives are panicking 😅
@darrylbrown82533 ай бұрын
airline industry is too.
@dw.76553 ай бұрын
So sad for them. Maybe Boeing and the car manufacturers should consider building HSR trains!
@albertcarello6193 ай бұрын
@WorldCitizenW: I certainly wouldn't doubt that at all!!!
@inyobill3 ай бұрын
Silly, trains don't replace cars, they supplement, and provide alternatives.
@garryferrington8113 ай бұрын
I don't think so. They won't like it, though, as it may give Americans ideas.
@ERAforALL3 ай бұрын
Now Las Vegas needs to construct a practical light rail system to meet the Brightline and offer services to the Strip and Downtown.
@Dizzymarvel3 ай бұрын
At least Brightline’s process is likely to be quicker than the states LA-SF rail
@ciello___83073 ай бұрын
Cahsr is already building. This vegas line is much easier to build though since theres less property they need to acquire and the speeds are lower
@travisbeagle56913 ай бұрын
Of course it will. They have very little land to acquire, the line will be primarily single tracked, they only have about 1/4 of the length to cover and their speeds will be a bit lower. The con with some of their decisions, is they aren't all that well situated in the LA area. Probably would have been a better idea to run the line into LA Union instead of way out in Rancho Cucamonga. There are already a couple lines that could have been improved on to achieve that. Maybe that might be a future expansion.
@mrvwbug44233 ай бұрын
@@travisbeagle5691 Running the HSR line all the way to LA would've more than doubled the cost of the project and probably made it non-feasible for Brightline. I do know that is in the long term plans for it. It's much cheaper to build HSR track in the I-15 median in the middle of the desert than it is to build it through the LA mountains and suburbs. Upgrading the existing lines between RC and LA to handle 110-125mph line speeds would likely be a good medium term solution, it would dramatically improve the Metrolink service on what is their busiest corridor and if the line is electrified Brightline could use it to run all the way to LA, just at a lower speed west of RC.
@travisbeagle56913 ай бұрын
@@mrvwbug4423 The latter part of your comment is more or less what I was getting at. They and Metrolink could have done something similar to what CAHSR and Caltrain are planning and upgrade existing rights of way to extend Brightline to LA Union and upgrade Metrolink while they are at it. Double tracking the existing route and electrification wouldn't be all that much of a significant expense, would dramatically improve the corridor and would likely significantly increase the customer base for the service. Maybe it is in the cards once the service is established and has some of its debt paid off as well as potentially double tracking the route, but right now I can't help not seeing it as a missed opportunity.
@anthonyhamilton65243 ай бұрын
Only 50 years in the making and still not a piece of track. Americas greatest concrete bridge to no where 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡💩💩💩💩
@zankyou1013 ай бұрын
Projected to be completed in year 2028. That means it will be half finished by year 2038.
@politicalchannel663 ай бұрын
Nah this a company not government. They built a train in 5 years in Florida same company
@Mrbossman34563 ай бұрын
It's mostly funded up with private funds. So they work differently. They made a train in Florida, and they took them a few years to do it
@MadStyle19113 ай бұрын
Prviate company building this, Brightline already completed a Project in Florida that took 4 yrs or so to complete.
@dfirth2243 ай бұрын
This will be easy to build since there is nothing in the way, unlike CA HSR which has to dig up and move TONS of pipes, electrical, build lots of overpasses and underpasses, etc.
@lazynow13 ай бұрын
done in 2138 for 50 trillion....
@pacificostudios3 ай бұрын
I think people will be surprised by the cost to ride this private HSR line. Tickets have to priced high enough to not only pay for the cost of the service, but to pay back the money to build it and provide investors a profit. A train like Pacific Surfliner is priced low enough to encourage people not to drive.
@ustophl3 ай бұрын
In principle, I would agree...however, I've taken Brightline numerous times in Florida and the prices are always far more reasonable than expected and the amount invested there was equally huge
@pacificostudios3 ай бұрын
@@ustophl - I live 90 miles from Los Angeles, and I prefer Amtrak--which is actually CalTrans--over Metrolink. Amtrak California is $28 coach. Rancho Cucamonga to Las Vegas is 230 miles. So a comparable price for Brightline West would be $72. However, Brightline is talking over $200 for a ticket, one-way. So Brightline West would be about 3 times more expensive than Amtrak, and still only get to the Metrolink station in Rancho Cucamonga. Advance LA-LV air fares are much lower than $200, and in fact, a lot closer to the $72 price. In addition, we can expect the airlines will cut their fares as soon as Brightline opens. Because the environmental impacts of air travel are externalized, competition will be a significant challenge to Brightline West.
@knoblauchhorst94053 ай бұрын
Finally, not some hyperloop techno dream but an actual working TRAIN
@albertcarello6193 ай бұрын
It's more than about time!!!!!! Too bad this wasn't discovered many years ago!!!!! Looking forward to this!!!!
@MrJuvefrank3 ай бұрын
Hi, there, the first time ever heard of the bullet train in Japan was in the early 1980's. You might meet people who are older than I am who heard of them before I was born.
@AdamFaruqi3 ай бұрын
The irony of saying "one of the greenest forms of transportation in the country with a 0-emissions system" while simultaneously showing an enormous parking structure immediately adjacent to the station
@CoolTransport3 ай бұрын
I mean, we're getting somewhere...
@coleciervo54543 ай бұрын
Better those cars be parked at a train station than driving on the highway
@Evilskyworshippers3 ай бұрын
That assumes CONservatives will establish their commie oil empire and ban all non-gas cars
@simplelife42133 ай бұрын
That's the whole point: More cars parked means less cars on the road, hence less emissions.
@bricks6453 ай бұрын
Yes, park and ride. You only have to drive a few minutes the the station instead of hours to the destination.
@mugwump2423 ай бұрын
Reality check: The naysayers and knockers in this comment section would've been burping out the same, negative things about constructing the national interstate freeway system back at its start in 1956 through the '60s and '70s. They'd have been saying the original state and US highways (configurations of 1 travel lane in each direction, mostly) still served perfectly fine. Presumably, today, they love their freeways. Do they think the automotive freeway infrastructure was cheap, quickly built, or easy? High speed rail is no different and, like the interstates, will take the US to the next level of transportation evolution.
@billkraemer47109 күн бұрын
Let me burp this: I pay for my own car and the fees. This rail system will be subsidized by the car drivers to make this a reality. The best rail systems for transportation of people are currently subsidized at 12 dollars for every fare dollar collected. This will be no different and likely worse.
@AmbushRL.3 ай бұрын
Can we please build more walkable cities.
@ziqi923 ай бұрын
So excited! I hate driving on the I-15.
@YoLo-sq8kq3 ай бұрын
There were pre historic trains?
@lazynow13 ай бұрын
not sure ask backdoor Pete B.
@ChrisJones-gx7fc3 ай бұрын
He was referencing humans crossing the Cajon Pass, dating all the way back to early prehistoric tribes apparently. Not sure why he did that, but I guess maybe to show how important a travel corridor that’s been, and now Brightline West is the latest mode of travel to use it.
@anderander56623 ай бұрын
@@ChrisJones-gx7fc pandering
@user-zt6bt8dp2c3 ай бұрын
@@anderander5662he didn’t want to offend the caveman hunting sabertooth
@anderander56623 ай бұрын
@user-zt6bt8dp2c I get offended everyday...... nobody gives a s***
@pacificostudios3 ай бұрын
Nearly all the route for Brightline West will be 125 MPH or lower. As valuable as Brightline West is, it isn't comparable to CA HSR's line which will be 220 MPH almost all the way between station stops.
@MrJuvefrank3 ай бұрын
That sounds a lot better than what it was like back in the old days. In 1995, I took a train from Fullerton, California to Las Vegas. It took more or less 8 hours.
@pacificostudios3 ай бұрын
@@MrJuvefrank - Given that current speed through Cajon Canyon is 25 MPH, the new line will be fantastic. In fact, there will probably be a commuter train service between Rancho Cucamonga and Victorville sponsored by Metrolink. Brightline is probably starting work in Las Vegas because their main shop will be outside Las Vegas. However, if they want to get revenue right away, they should be building between Rancho and Victorville.
@MrJuvefrank3 ай бұрын
@@pacificostudios I'm glad to hear it.
@garcjr3 ай бұрын
Then again is the California High Speed Rail ever actually going to be finished from Los Angeles to San Francisco?
@MrJuvefrank3 ай бұрын
@@garcjr They don't know how to finish it. They hired the first pig who wanted to get rich instead of hiring a company that would save them money.
@albertcarello6193 ай бұрын
I'm glad it will be electric and not smelly Diesels. Look what happened out in Philadelphia all diesel powered passenger trains discontinued sometime in the early 1980s and now only electric passenger trains including AMTRAK.
@kennethmays80593 ай бұрын
Construction begins but will it ever end is the question.
@user-dj7wv5ok2x3 ай бұрын
Hopefully after the initial segment is completed, they'll continue to add more as time progresses. The automobile and airplane NEED supplementing with another, less fuel-intensive, transportation mode.
@mrvwbug44233 ай бұрын
This is a mostly privately funded project, I suspect it will get done in a reasonable timeframe. Brightline is betting the farm on this and they've been wildly successful in Florida.
@notsocrates95293 ай бұрын
I hope it falls through, the 210 freeway was one of the worst things to happen to our communities in the Inland Empire. There are way too many people as it is, the question is, who is going to make money off of this?
@user-dj7wv5ok2x3 ай бұрын
@@notsocrates9529 That 210 also nearly obliterated Pasadena; I remember the time BEFORE that monstrous "Hitler strip" blasted its way thru vibrant Pasadena communities, uprooting and displacing hundreds of people some of which were forced to live in a "cardboard ghetto" known as the King's Village apartment complex.... If it were a RAIL LINE instead, a much greater amount of land would've been available for more productive uses!
@raulmedina35853 ай бұрын
No
@european513 ай бұрын
The train should really come all the way to Los Angeles.
@MrJuvefrank3 ай бұрын
If enough people ride it, then it might.
@ffjsb3 ай бұрын
$49 LA to Vegas by air, vs $400 by rail. If not more... SMH.
@MrJuvefrank3 ай бұрын
$400 is a lot of money unless you're Lee Iacocca.
@e.n.strowd19493 ай бұрын
Where did you get that number?
@garryferrington8113 ай бұрын
Lee Iacocca?! 😶
@ffjsb3 ай бұрын
@@MrJuvefrank I have no idea of why you dragged Lee Iacocca into this...
@ffjsb3 ай бұрын
@@e.n.strowd1949 Go look up air fares...
@bsr68233 ай бұрын
And since it’s bright line and not the stupid government, it’ll be ready either early or on time!
@eldebtor69733 ай бұрын
no
@tomservo50073 ай бұрын
nope, this 'private' project will get 10s of million$ in public funding before it's abandoned, not the first time this grift has worked
@Scroit3 ай бұрын
@@tomservo5007 Not exactly. Take a look at Brightline in Florida! It is wildly successful. Also, Brightline is a private company, and therefore does not use tax dollars. If it does, it does not use much
@The_king5672 ай бұрын
@@tomservo5007stop lying you know that’s not true
@tomservo50072 ай бұрын
@@The_king567 and you don't understand how this company can cough up billions required for this scale of a problem
@marcusmartinez78552 ай бұрын
So cool - I hope it comes to fruition. The budget $12B will likely go over the plan but the vision is solid. We have to have faith and build it to give consumer options.
@anngo41403 ай бұрын
Fast Travel for NCR troops when it's done
@mirzaahmed65893 ай бұрын
What's NCR?
@USS_Sentinel3 ай бұрын
New California Republic. A major faction in the Fallout universe. They're a big part of Fallout: New Vegas.
@reflexindex2673 ай бұрын
patrolling the mojave makes you wish for nuclear winter
@inyobill3 ай бұрын
@@mirzaahmed6589 I can think of worse things than California not having to do with some of the other states. Won't happen.
@nick_pappagiorgio3 ай бұрын
It's refreshing to see a privately funded rail going somewhere people actually want to go, compared to the $100 billion of taxpayer dollars spent for high speed rail from Bakersfield to Chowchilla.
@tomservo50073 ай бұрын
this 'private' project will get 10s of million$ in public funding before it's abandoned, not the first time this grift has worked.
@LalalalLalala-ws7ye3 ай бұрын
@@tomservo5007 it wasn't abandoned in Florida
@-syphec-36003 ай бұрын
Why don't you make the station a little smaller and reduce some costs so we can extend this into a connecting station in downtown LA, and also bring this to the rest of the US. We're 50 years too late but we need this now more than ever
@TooLiveChris3 ай бұрын
There would be even more land rights and right of way acquisitions that would have to be agreed upon cutting through LA like that. That would extend the project by years and add billions of dollars to the budget. Not to mention the litigation a move like that would spark amongst wealthy land owners in the city who are NIMBYs, disadvantaged communities concerned about gentrification, and everyone in between. This is the problem HSR between LA and SF is currently experiencing.
@-syphec-36003 ай бұрын
@@TooLiveChris see its situations like these where governments with a little more "authoritarian power" seem compelling. It's unfortunate that rail projects in the US seem to negatively impact so many communities rather than help them.
@billkraemer47109 күн бұрын
The bridge at 1:34 is part of the Central Valley rail system that is already a decade late in development and well over two times the original cost.
@EO_7412 ай бұрын
Yeah! It’s nice bc at least my mom doesn’t have to tirelessly drive from Vegas to Cali and instead have the time to sleep in the train as she barely gets any 🙏🙏🙏
@FlixCreEightR3 ай бұрын
I have no desire to go to Vegas.
@benbarberian17013 ай бұрын
Then fk off,why r u writing it here.
@Alex_filmz_stuff3 ай бұрын
don’t go
@Dizzymarvel3 ай бұрын
Ummm ok.
@381delirius3 ай бұрын
Who asked😂
@michaelellringer56003 ай бұрын
me too, I don't like conservative, Mormon influenced cities!
@douglas-hughes3 ай бұрын
Southwest Airlines is not impressed nor does it think this will steal its customers.
@Jim-nt7xy3 ай бұрын
Really? LA to Vegas? Are they expecting packed trains daily? Maybe LA - SF, but LA to LV will not fly.
@edsalinas99963 ай бұрын
I'm going to set a goal to being one of the first people to ride this High speed rail system. I should retire in about 4 years. In theory.
@repsolnow3 ай бұрын
Who did these projections?
@FloridaMan69.3 ай бұрын
a biden voter
@livinglife54633 ай бұрын
It's wrong projection. The train systems only profitable when people commute to work daily. Hopefully no railroad crosses.
@anderander56623 ай бұрын
Newsome
@ddddirge3 ай бұрын
@@livinglife5463 Who dumb enough to put crossing at High Speed/Express Rail?
@donaldkasper83463 ай бұрын
1000 a day will use it.
@adimart22142 ай бұрын
YES YES YES, this is why President Biden deserves another 4 years, for helping us Californians and Nevadans, giving us prosperity and growing our economy. We were chosen to be the first to host true high speed rail.
@MaskHysteria3 ай бұрын
Hopefully the BrightLine operators realize that they'll have to price their trains, offer convenience and offer amenities to make them appealing to consumers. Rumor has it that the price tag will be north of $400 for a round trip. Too much more than that and people will likely choose to drive anyway.
@michaelellringer56003 ай бұрын
The Gov't could appropriate billions for a light rail line going from the Sinless City Airport to Downtown and the taxi drivers would make sure it was never built.
@darrylbrown82533 ай бұрын
well that is too bad the Government is not funding this project. Brightline did the same thing down in FL and got it done in 5 years.
@TohaBgood23 ай бұрын
@@darrylbrown8253 Nope. This project is 50% government funded. And Brightline's last three projects in Florida were over 90% government funded. Brightline is privately owned but it's definitely publicly funded. Big difference.
@darrylbrown82533 ай бұрын
@@TohaBgood2 actually you are the one running fast and loose with the facts. You are wrong on two fronts. Yes the CA to LV is partially funded by the govt. You are lying about how much it is. Its more about 30% is being funded by federal and state subsidies. You are also lying about the the Florida. None of that was funded by the governement. So again be sure to check your facts before spewing non sense.
@TohaBgood23 ай бұрын
@@darrylbrown8253 Nope. 30% is just the Federal grant that they just received. HOw about all the state money and all the other Federal grants that they have already applied for, been shortlisted, and claim that they can't continue without getting? No, you don't believe Brightline when they say that they need over 50% government "investment" to make this line possible? And again, no. The last three projects that Brightline built in Florida were all stations and were all 90-100% government funded. Why are you trying to lie about this? This is quite literally public information.
@The_king5672 ай бұрын
No it definitely shouldn’t
@Furtivo953 ай бұрын
This is 125 years too late. Just go to Europe and Asia to see how developed countries work.
@CaliSteve1693 ай бұрын
No thanks. Being herded like cattle into public transportation ain't my thing. I'd rather travel in the comfort of my own vehicle.
@Furtivo953 ай бұрын
@@CaliSteve169 My $19 300 mile 2.5 hr bullet train ride from France to Germany was comfortable slice of heaven. My 300 mi 6 hr car ride from LA to Vegas was a cramped nightmare! No thanks!
@benbarberian17013 ай бұрын
I agree with furtivo
@CaliSteve1693 ай бұрын
@@Furtivo95 apples to oranges. US and European cities are set up differently. The train makes more sense in Europe than the US. I live in Long Beach. It would take me hours to get to Cucamonga just to get to a train so I can go to Vegas and be stuck without a car there. If you just want to go from Cucamonga to the Vegas strip and not stop anywhere on the way and just stay around your hotel there (like on a business trip) then maybe it works. Again, keep in mind that for most people just getting to Cucamonga would be painful. Southern California is very spread out unlike the European cities. Having said all that, I still prefer the comfort and convenience of my own car when I'm in Europe. I go wherever I want, whenever I want and take as many detours as I want.
@CaliSteve1693 ай бұрын
@@Furtivo95 not to mention all the stabbings on trains. That's a different conversation.
@xyverjaze3 ай бұрын
Man… it took Biden to build a High Speed Train?!? And Americans are leaning to unseat him in favor of Trump? LoL.
@pathader48393 ай бұрын
This has been in the works for many years before Biden
@MatchaCocoaDog3 ай бұрын
Kudos! Looks like a big project! 👍
@desertbrewcrew19743 ай бұрын
By the time its built it will be 3-5x the cost and 5x to run
@scruffy46473 ай бұрын
Hope it works. Brightline has it eyes on other corridors. The triangle between Dallas - Houston - San Antonio hopefully is next. Personally, I would much rather travel by high speed rail than by commercial air. Affordable high speed rail would save so much on highway maintenance cost.
@davidmack4495Ай бұрын
wrong, the station stops between vegas and rancho will be apple valley and hesperia......why can't these reporters do their research?
@Da__goat3 ай бұрын
This will be done before the CAHSR gets done
@rockyroad-hq7hz3 ай бұрын
Remember folks. These high speed lines trains have to run 1 full year before passengers are allowed. To iron out glitches and safety. That mean built 3 years from now for the Olympics.
@tonyburzio41073 ай бұрын
False.
@danielrose13923 ай бұрын
Where did you get these numbers from? You typically 1-2 weeks after track completion to allow services and maybe another month to allow the desired speeds.
@SC-or2ek3 ай бұрын
A fast way for the homeless To move to California ❤
@rickou15733 ай бұрын
This is actually unrelated
@Zergcerebrates3 ай бұрын
They wouldn’t be able to afford the ticket.
@rollinia77703 ай бұрын
You meant tr@fficking😅
@user-dj7wv5ok2x3 ай бұрын
@@ZergcerebratesThe state or locality thatdoing the sending will pay their ticket costs, just like Texas paying for buses to ship illegal aliens to New York State....
@crowmob-yo6ry3 ай бұрын
You are obviously a car-addicted suburbanite who believes the sensationalist news media's fear-mongering.
@scottg86603 ай бұрын
I think people making these comments have never been to rancho and have no clue where the line ends lol
@taromilktea48343 ай бұрын
Excellent news!!
@Mk1326721 күн бұрын
About damn time, we're already late like 30 years, f it. Build it now
@CuriousConnoisseurs3 ай бұрын
You can now Gamble awayy our Money in a Climate Friendly Way......... HURRA
@MrJuvefrank3 ай бұрын
Not all people who go to Las Vegas go to gamble. Some people have relatives over there or go there because they're on their way to Utah, Colorado, Nebraska. etc.
@tomte473 ай бұрын
Let's hope this one works better then previous attempts. Just to show how ridiculously slow the current build is, it was approved in 2008 about the same time China got their HSR program running. After 15 years California have now completed 422 miles with the first passengers expected to be able to ride between Bakersfield and Merced sometime after 2030, China just passed 28 000 miles with 3.68 billion passengers in 2023.
@islandsnow3 ай бұрын
China is a communist country. No red tape
@eddiedesantiago57332 ай бұрын
of course it's not a surprise - it's a f*&^%$ 2billion ppl country for God's sake :)
@sirblack16193 ай бұрын
This is awesome as I love trains and always have. I hope that this is going to spread throughout the country. I would love to see this in Colorado and Missouri.
@dsm97853 ай бұрын
Need to get them there ASAP to give to the casino charities!
@jorgedominguez72593 ай бұрын
How do I apply to work on this train I need a job
@billthomas26393 ай бұрын
Are you union, this is is all union?
@jorgedominguez72593 ай бұрын
@@billthomas2639 man Idc if I’m digging holes a need a better job
@TheTallMan503 ай бұрын
Oh sure. Laying RR tracks in the Mohave desert during summer. That will be fulfilling.
@jorgedominguez72593 ай бұрын
@@TheTallMan50 how privileged you must be to consider fulfilling work the most important aspect when looking for a job. But anyway it is still fulfilling being a small part of a huge project like this and saying hey I contributed to this a little even if it was hard work. The hard work actually makes it more fulfilling in my opinion.
@stevejessemey84283 ай бұрын
I wish Mr Pete would come to Malta and help us with a new Underground system. After all, he has roots in Malta, for his surname is Maltese.On, and make this work in the US, I mean it's about time.
@darrylbrown82533 ай бұрын
I really cant wait for this!!!!!
@AmbushRL.3 ай бұрын
About time! Remember hundreds of years ago when the US had nation wide rail.
@The_king5672 ай бұрын
No we didn’t
@AmbushRL.2 ай бұрын
@@The_king567 Yes we did. Not high speed, but there was no high speed back then.
@The_king5672 ай бұрын
@@AmbushRL. no we never had trains for a good reason we need to get rid of them
@AmbushRL.2 ай бұрын
@@The_king567 Ever heard of the Transcontinental Railroad?
@The_king5672 ай бұрын
@@AmbushRL. it’s gone for a reason
@jr.gaming22053 ай бұрын
The West Coast is finally going to have High Speed Rail
@itslogical38843 ай бұрын
Build a Las Vegas South in Rancho Cucamonga would be a better solution.
@amineantion3 ай бұрын
186 mph is fairly slow compared to what's being done in Asia. They are hitting 200-250 mph for most of their HSR
@AlmightyDude4203 ай бұрын
Hey, it's still fast even by other countries' HSR standards. It's not the Shinkansen, but it's pretty damn close. About time we had this.
@Scrublord303 ай бұрын
Maybe you are thinking kph? Some of the lines can run that fast at top speeds but most high speed rail lines operate in a similar range of 175 to 200mph simply due to cost efficiency and maintenance
@crowmob-yo6ry3 ай бұрын
BLW says 200mph on their website.
@damiennewyorker81053 ай бұрын
So you park your car in Rancho Cucamonga and find out it's been stolen when you return from Vegas.
@markalanjacobson2 ай бұрын
so negative, why?
@damiennewyorker81052 ай бұрын
@@markalanjacobson I don't trust government municipalities to get things done in America these days. Have you seen the spreadsheet on the bullet train to San Francisco? Have you seen how much money has been spent? Have you seen the bridge to nowhere? That could have gone to housing the homeless. That's why I'm negative.
@BarakaTheGreat2 ай бұрын
@@damiennewyorker8105 You getting your car stolen is the governments responsibility? Maybe don't leave your car unattended if you're leaving somewhere far away, you dumbass.
@Darren...son46343 ай бұрын
Will it be an elevated track
@dhlong16973 ай бұрын
Unsure, but in Mojave side will be between lanes of I-15.
@andrewgalusha19333 ай бұрын
No (except for a couple of bridges), but it will be 100% grade separated
@mrvwbug44233 ай бұрын
It will mostly run in the I-15 median or next to I-15
@AMPProf3 ай бұрын
IF GOD IS REAL WERE DOOMED sin to sin holly fak
@thedougster39982 ай бұрын
Pete taking credit for doing nothing.
@toblerussetaАй бұрын
How close is the LA stop from downtown LA?
@azeeze13913 ай бұрын
8-story parking structure!? that should be housing!
@im_a-walking_shitpost_machine3 ай бұрын
nah
@AMPProf3 ай бұрын
It could be We do have every technology to terraform that
@randygravel20573 ай бұрын
A train full of Vegas trash. What could go wrong?
@ERAforALL3 ай бұрын
Sounds like someone didn’t do well in the casinos. Sorry about your luck.
@crowmob-yo6ry3 ай бұрын
A highway overcrowded with giant SUVs driven by Hollywood elites. What could go wrong?
@luisamador62813 ай бұрын
I love it, thank God, f...k the airlines which for years didn't want this train.
@user-fy3qi1rp3r3 ай бұрын
Very excited 😆
@freedomrulesjavier39043 ай бұрын
What the over/under as to when this gets finished...I'm betting over 10 years...and billions more.
@roberturibe31503 ай бұрын
A big straw so las Vegas can slurp California revenue
@john150082 ай бұрын
Now if only Las Vegas could improve its public transit system too. Wouldn’t it be great if Vegas had a subway or LRT that people could get on once they arrived.
@povertyspec96513 ай бұрын
The reason the I-15 corridor is a parking lot is that no money has been spent on it ever since it was first constructed.
@sandiegofun13 ай бұрын
As we know from the Katy freeway, adding lanes always solves the traffic problem.. /s/ Trains are the only real solution.
@flipsolo3 ай бұрын
That's a good thing.
@AMPProf3 ай бұрын
ALSO IT'S FULL OF ANTs in an ant farm baking in tge sun for a sliver of hope of joy to once again Feel like They never were dumb ever
@Scrublord303 ай бұрын
@sandiegofun1 I see the logic behind your statement, but a little known fact is they were just one more lane from fixing traffic forever! Just one more lane and it would be fixed! We should keep investing in expanding our highways so we can increase commute times instead of investing in far more efficient and fast travel alternatives 😊
@flipsolo3 ай бұрын
@@Scrublord30 Just one more lane, brah!
@lazynow13 ай бұрын
backdoor Pete B. said that cavemen had trains....
@procrastinatingpuma3 ай бұрын
No, he didn’t
@lazynow13 ай бұрын
@@procrastinatingpuma WoW, so typical...
@christophfas354818 күн бұрын
10M PAX /y? That 800 PAX per Train, if you have 15 Trains per day in each Directions all Year round. Optimistic Numbers.
@chefdavid80233 ай бұрын
This what SEPTA needs here in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania!! Rail infrastructure need to be upgraded and local transit rail stations.
@70M803 ай бұрын
can't wait to use this to speed run new vegas later
@AMPProf3 ай бұрын
ABSOLULTLY NOT. Noooooo Fk that We building Shady
@AMPProf3 ай бұрын
just you know dont Drop that
@Mrbossman34563 ай бұрын
Wow we have sent over $100 billion to Ukraine They just give 3 billion for the train
@JD856193 ай бұрын
not very smart are you?
@ey15483 ай бұрын
@jamesdick2604 i think your not very smart moron 😂😅
@jorgedominguez72593 ай бұрын
The billions to Ukraine actually mostly goes to US companies that manufacturer weapons and supplies for Ukraine. But still Ukraine gets a lot more than this train
@hawavideouploader3 ай бұрын
Yeah. Like a pack of bearings will cost 100k because it's military. That's how they make up 100 billion.
@donaldkasper83463 ай бұрын
US military writes off old equipment, ships that to Ukraine, gets the budget for new equipment.
@snakebyteOne3 ай бұрын
Alcohol sales on this train will be a guaranteed money maker
@adrian_zombturtle148Ай бұрын
Isint there suposed to be 4 stations and not 3 ?
@DaBinChe3 ай бұрын
30,000 people every day is a huge stretch...maybe 5000 per day
@mirzaahmed65893 ай бұрын
You have no clue. Way more people than that travel between the two cities. Pretty much all air travel and a large chunk of car/bus travel can be replaced by rail.
@DaBinChe3 ай бұрын
@@mirzaahmed6589 People in SoCal all drive to Vegas, no one flies there from SoCal. That is why I15 is a parking lot.
@AlmightyDude4203 ай бұрын
PLENTY of people fly from SoCal to Vegas, so they don't have to drive. The rest drive. When the ticket prices become reasonable, expect tens of thousands of people to use the train. Much better than both driving and flying
@JenniferBristol3 ай бұрын
Watch it be less... Like 500... LOL
@DaBinChe3 ай бұрын
Having to get to the airport 2hours before the flight, getting a rental car, is costlier than driving both in time and money. Too much hassle is why folks mostly drive from LA to Vegas. That is why round trip tickets from LAX to Vegas is less than $80. With the train its gonna be kinda similar with needing a rental car and there ain't gonna be 10,000 parking spaces at the train station so folks still need a ride to the train station just like to the airport. The round trip train better be no more than $50 or no one is gonna take it.
@judgedreddhd3 ай бұрын
We've heard this story before...
@AMPProf3 ай бұрын
YEP then the money dried up Someone died and ww2
@markdc11453 ай бұрын
Watch, they will run out of money in 2027 and the thing will sit unfinished for decades.
@301jerm3 ай бұрын
I love this! NEC next for highspeed rail
@lbaker36020013 ай бұрын
Powered by diesel generators, generating all that needed electricity.
@californiaporg3 ай бұрын
I think it might have power drawn from the solar plants near Primm, but who knows
@princesidon3 ай бұрын
The solar farm near Primm and the wind farms along the route will be powering Brightline West.
@californiaporg3 ай бұрын
@@princesidon good to know
@andrec60123 ай бұрын
It only took 20 years, no biggie!
@AMPProf3 ай бұрын
fail
@JoseVasquez-vj3lo3 ай бұрын
Nah, this is a private company, bright line. They build one in florida in like 5 years and was successful. Hence why they are 'expanding' now into cali. This isn't the government that takes 20 years
@andrec60123 ай бұрын
@@JoseVasquez-vj3lo I wasn’t talking about the company. I was talking about the state of California in general.
@TohaBgood23 ай бұрын
@@andrec6012 And you're wrong on both counts. CAHSR broke ground in 2015 in Fresno. There's video on youtube from the groundbreaking. How many years have passed since 2015? Can you count?
@user-dl5jg8gn8f3 ай бұрын
How much for a ticket???
@rick82953 ай бұрын
Lost all credibility when you showed Butteigeg
@__hjg__21233 ай бұрын
Buttigieg chasing unicorns with your money...
@procrastinatingpuma3 ай бұрын
By investing into key infrastructure projects?
@AlmightyDude4203 ай бұрын
Lmao there's always some idiot like you on here. So you think we should just keep lagging behind the rest of the world then in your opinion? I'm just glad we are finally working on catching up.
@DANGITTB0BBY3 ай бұрын
@@procrastinatingpumahave you ridden a train lately?
@crowmob-yo6ry3 ай бұрын
You just described highways perfectly.
@__hjg__21233 ай бұрын
@@procrastinatingpuma Orange County weekenders needing to get to The Aria is "key infrastructure" in your head? lol.........
@donteatthechalk3 ай бұрын
I'm amazed at the comments. Apparently cars are for the right and transit for the left? Only Americans could connect political ideology to transportation modes.
@awdrifter33943 ай бұрын
Because the left in the US is trying to kill of car ownership. Also this train probably won't be done by 2028, just look at the progress of the California HSR.
@alquinn85763 ай бұрын
i lean libertarian, so i take airplane
@maas12083 ай бұрын
Blame the MAGAts
@devestvАй бұрын
It is just amazing how a project can start when it's run by a private company. I wonder how the CA high speed rails to nowhere will continue to be way over budget.
@HigherQualityUploads16 күн бұрын
There are efficient and fast governments in the world... Just not the American one.
@common919412 ай бұрын
Come Texas Dallas to Houston get it done
@crowmob-yo6ryАй бұрын
I hate Cara Mendelsohn so much. She's an evil NIMBY who took bribes from oil billionaires to kill all future elevated rail projects.
@joeson77003 ай бұрын
Well AHEAD of a GRUESOME California railway system ?
@amidazad48323 ай бұрын
Well, Newsom still looking into those missing funds as well. Besides the 6 billion on Covid and 24 million on fighting homelessness missing funds. Newsom said he’s taking that very seriously, it must be an accounting error. The easiest way to find all these missing funds is, start looking at politicians offshore accounts like Pelosi’s, Maxine Waters and all other Newsom’s cronies. I’m sure those missing funds were deposited in their offshore accounts by mistake.
@AMPProf3 ай бұрын
WHAT ohh the Sea train or The cal tran Caachung caaachung
@user-he1cd3lh2d3 ай бұрын
Diesel.
@littlesaigon7143 ай бұрын
id rather drive 4 hours than spend 2 hours with stinky rude ppl
@AndyonBlast3 ай бұрын
For real and drunk
@jdos56433 ай бұрын
2 hours? Less than that.
@CaliSteve1693 ай бұрын
It's 2 hours just for the train ride from Cucamonga to Vegas. How long will it take you to get to Cucamonga? Keep in mind that you'll be in Vegas without a car too.
@AlmightyDude4203 ай бұрын
If you can't handle sitting next to your own countrymen, then you should move out. You can't honestly sit here and say you drive to AVOID other people. And in case you didn't know, you don't HAVE to talk to them. Jesus. Anyways, you don't like Americans, then go somewhere else.
@crowmob-yo6ry3 ай бұрын
You are obviously a car-addicted suburbanite who knows nothing about trains and believes the sensationalist news media's fear-mongering..
@Rl0829923 ай бұрын
If the US department of transportation will help fund the high-speed bullet train between San Francisco and LA.
@polomaseratti50073 ай бұрын
Why
@Rl0829923 ай бұрын
@@polomaseratti5007 The project is still way behind schedule and they under-estimated the amount of money needed to complete the project.
@chris_cashflow6663 ай бұрын
Lol that project is long gone. It's been 5 years since I saw parts of it built and nothings been done since
@AlmightyDude4203 ай бұрын
@@chris_cashflow666 ?? Buddy- it's *being built,* what are you on about? They are building new track and pushing through hurdles every day.
@josephma13323 ай бұрын
Atlast HST in US...great...
@cassiocm3 ай бұрын
What a joke. We can't finish LA to SF, but we start this. Hey, whatever
@MrJuvefrank3 ай бұрын
Politicians didn't know what they were getting in to when they wanted that train set from Los Angeles to San Francisco. They just got the first person to say he could do it without trying to figure out if someone else could do it cheaper. Some 12 year olds would have had a better chance at getting the right person.
@Interestingenough43 ай бұрын
The CA state government is behind the LA-SF HSR project. Brightline, a private company, is behind the LV-LA metro project.
@lanabyk80123 ай бұрын
Will I still be alive when its finished?
@judgedreddhd3 ай бұрын
If you're over 10 probably not.
@Scroit3 ай бұрын
Absolutely. It took Brightline in Florida 4 years to complete the entire project
@judgedreddhd3 ай бұрын
@@Scroit that's Florida
@Scroit3 ай бұрын
My point exactly. This project should be easier and quicker to build because: 1. There are no bodies of water or significant obstacles to clear or build over since it's in the desert 2. Land along the highway allows for a straight connection between the two destinations
@judgedreddhd3 ай бұрын
@@Scroit I like your positive attitude. You must be young.