Construction begins on high speed rail line in Las Vegas

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@ES-hr6vg 6 ай бұрын

I’m not really sure what BART has to do with this.

@Perich29 6 ай бұрын

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.

@ryy4n_ 6 ай бұрын

idk either but its a nice feature i suppose lol!

@Geotpf 6 ай бұрын

They randomly squished together two almost completely unrelated stories. The only things they had in common were they about passenger rail somewhere in California.

@danmcclaren5436 6 ай бұрын

sounds like the intern was asked to squeeze an extra story in there so the intern went with Bart

@jfungsf882 6 ай бұрын

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...

@JediTev 6 ай бұрын

Did they just compare high speed rail to BART?😂😂😂😂

@goldenstatedepartures 6 ай бұрын

Why is the thumbnail the old station platform at Sacramento when this train isn't even going there?

@mattrancho 3 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing

@violantederojas6188 6 ай бұрын

Meanwhile, France and Japan have had High Speed Rail since *1969* for petes sake!

@ES-hr6vg 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the history lesson.

@s.p.8803 6 ай бұрын

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.

@mrmark8603 6 ай бұрын

Thanks Kawasaki for the first Bullet Train.

@CatpoopTacos 6 ай бұрын

If you knew anything about american history, and how politics prevented hsr, you wouldn't be making these tenuous comments.

@organchoirman9698 6 ай бұрын

they didn't have trickle down low taxes on the rich to deal with.

@adimart2214 4 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.

@MrGHawaii 6 ай бұрын

People in more-devoloped countries laugh at this news story.

@Renard380 6 ай бұрын

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.

@politicalchannel66 6 ай бұрын

No country has better road network then America. DIfferent nations build different things

@2511thai 6 ай бұрын

@@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.

@michaelellringer5600 6 ай бұрын

And laugh at the fact that Las Vegas is the last big city in the country to have any rail light/subway system.

@BenriBea 6 ай бұрын

better late than never I guess

@goldenstatedepartures 6 ай бұрын

And what does BART in the bay area have anything to do with the HSR linking LA and Las Vegas?

@jfungsf882 6 ай бұрын

Nothing...

@BenriBea 6 ай бұрын

they needed to meet the minimum word count to get a good grade

@rachreid8746 6 ай бұрын

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.

@yagi3925 6 ай бұрын

It's happening right now. Don't you have ears to hear? They've just broken ground and started actually working and digging.

@rachreid8746 6 ай бұрын

@@yagi3925 I said “born and raised” - I haven’t lived there in a decade. My family does

@yagi3925 6 ай бұрын

@@rachreid8746 Sure but this is not what I meant. There is obviously some misunderstanding.

@Force05289 5 ай бұрын

Brightline has already built an existing rail line in Florida that’s around hundred miles long. I believe they could build this.

@mrxman581 6 ай бұрын

Great news. California will have the first 2 HSR trains in the USA within 6 years. Fantastic!!!

@dabossbuster2405 6 ай бұрын

maybe within 60 years the way chsr is going lol

@tonyburzio4107 6 ай бұрын

No, this line is being built by the grown-ups from Florida.

@jamesrusselleriii8284 6 ай бұрын

You're awfully optimistic about CHSR being finished in this century.

@hawavideouploader 6 ай бұрын

1 is definitely going to be build but the other one is very doubtful. Probably unlikely.

@PelosiStockPortfolio 6 ай бұрын

@@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

@stephaniejames4940 6 ай бұрын

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.

@anthonymartinez4307 6 ай бұрын

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.

@Jorge-lh6px 6 ай бұрын

@@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.

@commentorsilensor3734 6 ай бұрын

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.

@Robweisenhowser 6 ай бұрын

@@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.

@Jorge-lh6px 6 ай бұрын

@@Robweisenhowser 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).

@joermnyc 6 ай бұрын

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.

@sagittariusone2753 6 ай бұрын

@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).

@joermnyc 6 ай бұрын

@@sagittariusone2753 right, but many people prefer a “one seat ride”.

@mariosphere 6 ай бұрын

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".

@simonmrnka3405 5 ай бұрын

@@mariosphere the existing rails are single track at places and not electrified at all, and I don't think Metrolink (LA's regional rail operator) has any plans to change that by 2028, correct me if I am wrong

@mikesallaberry3718 2 ай бұрын

Phase 2 of the CA High Speed Rail is supposed to connect Union Station and San Diego to the Brightline West station in Rancho Cucamonga. Maybe they should move this phase up so that LA, Vegas, and San Diego all get connected with high speed rail in our lifetimes.

@louislamonte334 6 ай бұрын

Thrilled to hear this!!

@vinitsingh1128 6 ай бұрын

Hope it can be rolled out everywhere NYC to SFO/LA

@jayski9410 6 ай бұрын

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.

@Geotpf 6 ай бұрын

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.

@Geotpf 6 ай бұрын

@@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.

@jfungsf882 6 ай бұрын

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...

@KingfisherTalkingPictures 6 ай бұрын

The new bart cars are very clean and nice, with great upgrades. But they feel like every other metro system.

@mattheweng4679 6 ай бұрын

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.

@justsayingforafriend7010 6 ай бұрын

They said $400 one way. Or more when you get robbed on it.

@kevinakling 6 ай бұрын

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.

@MrJuvefrank 6 ай бұрын

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.

@tonyburzio4107 6 ай бұрын

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!

@Geotpf 6 ай бұрын

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.

@lexburen5932 6 ай бұрын

@@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.

@MrJuvefrank 6 ай бұрын

That's a cool Diesel.

@lexburen5932 6 ай бұрын

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.

@VieleGuteFahrer 6 ай бұрын

When you say so, European lmao.

@baramuth71 5 ай бұрын

@@VieleGuteFahrer but the comment is not that far-fetched. In the USA they can't get it right because they've paved everything over with roads, but when they're in Europe they're thrilled with how well it works. it's all very strange.

@DarkstarDarth 6 ай бұрын

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.

@Geotpf 6 ай бұрын

Costs should be about the same as a flight. They won't be able to stay in business if they aren't.

@starventure 6 ай бұрын

@@GeotpfSouthwest will price dump ONT to LAS at $25 a seat, and Brightline west will be in BK court fast.

@optimalprimidius7295 6 ай бұрын

Yup, and raising the 7.25 minimum wage will cause inflation. Oh, wait....

@s.p.8803 6 ай бұрын

Unnecessary ✈🤮🤮🤮

@Jack-ke5uv 6 күн бұрын

@@starventure It's true. Back in the 1960's Union Pacific used to run their bright yellow modern trains between Las Vegas and LA Union Terminal...four trips daily in each direction. As soon as the interstate was built and those modern jets started flying, Union Pacific almost ended up in BK court so they did the smart thing and discontinued the service in 1971 before having to go to BK court.

@Railhog2102 5 ай бұрын

Seems promising but a very daunting task for something like this

@mbaktari8194 6 ай бұрын

WELCOME TO BULLET TRAIN FAMILY.......AMERICANS. Where have you been all these past decades ?????

@starventure 6 ай бұрын

Living away from the cities. Which is why this won’t work out.

@jojopuppyfish 6 ай бұрын

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

@dan9222scandiguy 6 ай бұрын

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.

@Jack-ke5uv 6 күн бұрын

When Union Pacific used to run their passenger trains between LA Union Terminal and Las Vegas, there was a brightly lit Union Pacific Rail Terminal right on the strip, in fact right behind one of the hotels. Whatever happened to that Las Vegas rail terminal? Why can't this high speed rail go right into Las Vegas like before?

@seymorefact4333 6 ай бұрын

140mph is NOT HIGH SPEED!

@darkrai6010 6 ай бұрын

by definition it quite literally is

@baramuth71 5 ай бұрын

225 km/h but you can go even faster, on average 300-350 km/h in europe. but the structures have to be in place for that.

@MrTom-kl7hy 6 ай бұрын

How much money have Vegas casinos and businesses made for decades and decades, and yet people complain - why was this not built sooner?

@joelvanwinkle5976 3 ай бұрын

Until then the closest thing to high speed rail we got are our hundreds of roller coasters

@WildWildWeasel 6 ай бұрын

The mainstream media having a stroke today lmao

@fleabag2mr.151 6 ай бұрын

So is this going to cost 4X more just like the train to nowhere?

@CatpoopTacos 6 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

@@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"

@procrastinatingpuma 6 ай бұрын

Since when were LA and San Francisco "nowhere"

@Cletus_the_Elder 6 ай бұрын

Highway to hell from hell through hell.

@anthonymartinez4307 6 ай бұрын

Society is going broke ( people) the major cities are already broke, everyone is cheering now up until the tax bill comes in.

@tallguy6055 6 ай бұрын

What the heck does High Speed Rail have to do with BART. Honestly, reporters these days with their connect the dots reasoning.

@Cormoran7 6 ай бұрын

Nice to know

@victor.huy.8021 6 ай бұрын

Casino owners: ha ha, suckers!

@RobustArid379 6 ай бұрын

It’s should go to Oakland to las Vegas! Las Vegas stole it

@markblackmore521 6 ай бұрын

Here in Atlanta there’s MARTA…Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta

@isaacsims6203 6 ай бұрын

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

@justsayingforafriend7010 6 ай бұрын

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.

@tynielsen 6 ай бұрын

It's about time

@little_foxy9118 6 ай бұрын

Late, but at least they are starting now ._.

@Sant270 6 ай бұрын

yay!!! it will be ready in 20 years just like the train in California

@josefinazepeda5717 6 ай бұрын

Wonderfu job; train really fast!! Like La Bala

@MsMytube75 6 ай бұрын

Faster than i run? 😅😅

@toymaster5464 6 ай бұрын

Yeah...35K jobs....mostly in construction but not as many permanent jobs. Kinda misleading the truth!

@baramuth71 5 ай бұрын

I think you are very wrong.

@QueenAmber 6 ай бұрын

Wow, monorail looks cool 🚝🤩🥳

@FalconsEye58094 6 ай бұрын

Fastest train line in America China: pathetic

@vincentmorano9400 6 ай бұрын

LETS GOOOOOOO

@7415_Gamer 6 ай бұрын

The chinese are laughing

@vuho2075 6 ай бұрын

and I'm eating chowmein

@SirSayakaMikiThe3rd 6 ай бұрын

Thats nice that they found something to laugh at while their economy is tanking and all their cheap construction is going unsold/ falling apart

@princepaddy4095 5 ай бұрын

@@SirSayakaMikiThe3rd😂😂😂 keep on lying to yourself 😂😂

@god_when333 3 ай бұрын

@@SirSayakaMikiThe3rd pfft if there a major economy tanking its the US lol its beyond expensive to live there and yall infrastructures stinks😂

@SirSayakaMikiThe3rd 3 ай бұрын

@@princepaddy4095 Emojis, the idiots tool.

@IOSARBX 6 ай бұрын

CBS Evening News, This made me laugh so much! Thanks for sharing!

@CatpoopTacos 6 ай бұрын

Why did it make you laugh?

@ChrisCarlin-is8wv 6 ай бұрын

Never going to happen. LA to San Francisco is never going to be built either.

@jahoyhoy9097 6 ай бұрын

Terrible story. Stay on topic next time

@clippers4me 6 ай бұрын

2 hrs to get there from L.A? China, Japan, South Korea laughing. They should name it the Sloth line.

@davidwright873 6 ай бұрын

They can't WAIT to get this done.....the sooner the better....let the gambler loser come...one and all!!

@TheCommunicationCoach 6 ай бұрын

One more reason to stay away from the world's biggest ashtray....

@FrankGallagherr 6 ай бұрын

So more people can get robbed

@p1xel1115 6 ай бұрын

There are security checkpoints at the stations you know.

@danielkelly2210 6 ай бұрын

Yup. Another Crime Train.

@passatboi 6 ай бұрын

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.....

@mrmark8603 6 ай бұрын

What no Hyperloop? 😂😂😂

@zhongmingyuan52 6 ай бұрын

They would not imagine a train would be soaked by urine 50 years later.

@kocheng176 6 ай бұрын

When will it be completed ? 2050 ???

@zada9409 6 ай бұрын

2028 🥳🥳🎉🎉🎉

@Siciid22 6 ай бұрын

😮

@Buc_Stops_Here 6 ай бұрын

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.

@lexburen5932 6 ай бұрын

brightline florida makes money, and it brings 2 billion in xtra tax reveue for the state of california.

@Buc_Stops_Here 6 ай бұрын

@@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.

@baramuth71 5 ай бұрын

now don't be so hasty, the USA has wasted 50 years and invested everything in roads, now of course it needs time to fix it

@Buc_Stops_Here 5 ай бұрын

@@baramuth71 While true, this country was built on the railroads before Eisenhower put in the interstate system in 1956. The biggest problem I see is getting people to change their habits and ways. The individuality of cars is going to take a century to get over at the rate the USA is going if they ever move to trains. I just look at Florida's Brightline system hemorrhaging money despite the fact I-4 is in bumper to bumper traffic every day while the empty train goes rushing by. How long can the private company run these empty trains before they fail in bankruptcy? That is the problem I see.

@kevinhoward9593 6 ай бұрын

2028 seems highly unlikely. 2038 probably.

@solracer66 6 ай бұрын

Orlando - Miami took Brightline 4 years to build and it was 235 miles vs 218 miles and wasn't across mostly open country.

@HigherQualityUploads 5 ай бұрын

@@solracer66Most of that was already existing freight rail. There is no existing route for the Nevadan/Californian system.

@solracer66 5 ай бұрын

@@HigherQualityUploads About half and half new/existing if I remember correctly.

@god_when333 3 ай бұрын

I'll bet this would be a disaster and will never be completed😂

@craigstahl1874 6 ай бұрын

This is shameful. Turbo CA $ to NV. What a plan.

@ScottEdwards-fq2vc 6 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

@TerpnJohn 6 ай бұрын

This has bad idea all over it

@Lee-zw9rn 6 ай бұрын

This is America...no one cares...yet!😂😂😂😂

@larrykrall626 6 ай бұрын

They need this now so that people can get out as fast as they can.

@Davis9754 6 ай бұрын

and get in as fast, if not even faster

@FlintYeastwood 6 ай бұрын

I doubt people in LA who are trying to leave have Vegas at the top of their list or vis versa.

@allsportsexpert 6 ай бұрын

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.

@danielkelly2210 6 ай бұрын

It's always faster to drive, or take a plane. Trains are not needed in the US.

@justinzak5025 6 ай бұрын

Why are we building high speed rail to a city that shouldn't exist

@tonyburzio4107 6 ай бұрын

Because they are building a second one? Just across the border into Nevada.

@blackprimer 6 ай бұрын

A 2 hour ride with no bathrooms

@gabetalks9275 6 ай бұрын

Bathrooms are a standard on all high speed trains.

@p1xel1115 6 ай бұрын

@@gabetalks9275On any train except metros even.

@s.p.8803 6 ай бұрын

You've never taken a train before?!? Every carriage has at least 1 bathrooms more like 2!

@eddieg6436 6 ай бұрын

Once I get to Rancho Cucamonga, THEN WHAT?!? Anyone who knows L.A. knows you NEED a car to get around L.A.!!! 🤷🏼‍♂️

@PelosiStockPortfolio 6 ай бұрын

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

@patrisio3 6 ай бұрын

They are going to advertise linking up passengers with Metrolink, which will take people between downtown LA and Rancho.

@PelosiStockPortfolio 6 ай бұрын

@@pigjubby1 Flying is an hour in the air plus 2 more hours going through the airport and TSA

@Geotpf 6 ай бұрын

@@pigjubby1Brightline West uses all new tracks. No sharing with freight.

@starventure 6 ай бұрын

@@PelosiStockPortfolioCar thieves are going to make coin then. Never park a car at a train station.