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Brightline West Rail Project Unveils Higher Than Anticipated Estimate Ticket Prices

January 22, 2025 2:45 amJanuary 22, 2025 2:46 am

A new $2.5 billion bond offering for the Brightline West high-speed rail project between Las Vegas and Rancho Cucamonga was unveiled on Monday, revealing that initial one-way ticket prices are estimated to be far higher than expected at between $119-$133....

LA Times Angles for High-Speed Rail As ‘Jobs’ Program

December 26, 2024 9:40 amDecember 28, 2024 9:23 am

What a train wreck. The Los Angeles Times is touting how California’s high-speed rail project “trains workers and provides thousands of jobs in the Central Valley.” You read that right. They finally admit that it’s just a union jobs program....

Brightline West Project Has Groundbreaking Ceremony In Las Vegas

April 23, 2024 2:45 amApril 23, 2024 2:46 am

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and other lawmakers officially broke ground on the Brightline West high-speed rail project between Las Vegas and Rancho Cucamonga, intending for the line to open in time for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los...

Biden Administration Awards $3 Billion to Brightline West Las Vegas-So Cal High Speed Rail Project

December 6, 2023 2:45 amDecember 6, 2023 2:46 am

The Biden Administration announced on Tuesday that they would be awarding $3 billion through the Department of Transportation as part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to help start construction of the Brightline West project, a high-speed rail project...

Inland Empire-To-Vegas High Speed Rail Line To Begin Construction Late 2023

March 5, 2023 2:25 amMarch 5, 2023 2:26 am

Brightline West, a planned high-speed rail service from the Inland Empire to Las Vegas, announced on Friday that construction was to begin later this year after years of planning. Since the late 2010’s, the Florida-based Brightline has been planning a...

Southern California to Las Vegas High-Speed Rail Line To Begin Groundbreaking This Year

April 20, 2021 2:49 pm

Six months after being halted due to bond sale issues, Brightline West announced earlier this month that construction of the Las Vegas-Apple Valley high speed train is now scheduled to begin in the second quarter later this year. For several...

Southern California to Las Vegas High-Speed Rail Line Postponed

November 2, 2020 2:46 pm

On Sunday, the proposed Victorville-Las Vegas high speed rail line was halted indefinitely after the project failed to sell $2.4 billion in bonds. Fortress Investment Group, who is backing the Brightline West project, had received $600 million in bond allocations...