USA’s NEW High-Speed Railway ($12BN)

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

Europe and Asia goes: LOL! n00bs!

[@TheLiamster]

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

[@entized5671]

double tracking means removing highway lanes so I agree

[@stickynorth]

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

[@f-86zoomer37]

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

[@valentinschwegler165]

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

[@mrxman581]

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

[@mydiscworld]

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

[@ZvonimirZelenika]

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

[@StreamSched]

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

[@kirkrotger9208]

​@@StreamSchedThe Vegas Loop is completely worthless.

[@nlpnt]

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

[@theventuracountyrailfan]

Do you live in this region

[@kameaakami]

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

[@user-zu3md5qz8y]

nothing happening now

[@noerodriguez9047]

@@user-zu3md5qz8yI know they keep saying this since 35 years ago but I don’t see anything yet

[@Swissmister93]

Welcome to the 21st century, America

[@mrxman581]

CAHSR already did that.

[@jlafunk]

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

[@mrxman581]

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

[@kyrieelite]

And Acela is technically high-speed rail

[@vitasoy1437]

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

[@Mister8224]

​@@vitasoy1437As you must know Florida Brightline ain't going so well. Ridership is cratering, forcing them to look for operating revenue(more taxes), after they promised it would be self-sustaining. Absolutely no reason it would be any different in CA. Boondoggle money pit.

[@reminaya]

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

[@JRam-bg2ii]

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

[@jorgedominguez7259]

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

[@sang7349]

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

[@andrewlau7049]

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

[@Marco-zt6fz]

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

[@mrxman581]

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

[@user-dj7wv5ok2x]

​@@mrxman581As well as San Diego....

[@roger5059]

​@@mrxman581for american standards, yes

[@zo62]

It was the past

[@user-dj7wv5ok2x]

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

[@alex30425]

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

[@mrxman581]

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

[@kyrieelite]

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

[@JuliusUnique]

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

[@user-dj7wv5ok2x]

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

[@Imzaluzzulazmi]

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

[@BIGJATPSU]

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

[@mrxman581]

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

[@user-dj7wv5ok2x]

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

[@BIGJATPSU]

@@user-dj7wv5ok2x while that would be great, I believe that is why the "estimated" cost is so low in conjunction with using free right of way from the Feds mostly. Perhaps one day if the line proves worthwhile that can be done and then spliced in so as not to disrupt the service much.

[@BIGJATPSU]

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

[@nanaokyere7141]

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

[@mrxman581]

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

[@user-dj7wv5ok2x]

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

[@Scorpidoo]

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

[@MichaelDavis-il8ze]

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

[@DarkKnight52365]

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

[@stefi300972]

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

[@bbbeezy]

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

[@Ven100]

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

[@maciejz7892]

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

[@ThuyNguyen-hw3os]

Great video, thank you for sharing

[@irenejewelrygirl-premierde3086]

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

[@Marcus-xn5tb]

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

[@irenejewelrygirl-premierde3086]

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

[@Marcus-xn5tb]

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

[@irenejewelrygirl-premierde3086]

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

[@BJI82a]

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

[@fiddleronthecube7835]

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

[@FBA-Renaissance]

5:45 - MAKE IT ONE HOUR 😎

[@Contractwiththeuniverse.]

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

[@passatboi]

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

[@mrxman581]

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

[@Ven100]

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

[@CarBuddy10]

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

[@guy-claudeeleka5351]

3:09 wth are they doing 😂😭😭

[@cloroxbleach2520]

Cool it with the overediting

[@osmanhossain676]

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

[@sujatabarman8940]

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

[@Dargini]

Hope they have cheap long term parking for it

[@jsnalva5417]

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

[@TheEbbemonster]

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

[@cocodasy1477]

They should have this high speed train from L.A to Irvine station for a 30min ride.

[@TheEbbemonster]

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

[@wsurfer2147]

Rancho Cucamonga is not LA, If there is traffic it will take you more than an hour to get there from LA. So the trip is not 2 hour, more like 3+ hours point to point.

[@jon134a]

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

[@patriot-wf1er]

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

[@jhonatanmiranda5289]

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

[@musaurelius7144]

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

[@johndunbar7504]

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

[@osmanhossain676]

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

[@stevefox898]

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

[@stevefox898]

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

[@kennyo673]

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

[@erichchan3]

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

[@stickynorth]

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

[@REDRex408]

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

[@zackatwood2867]

between RanCh0 CucAMoNgA and Vegas

[@osmanhossain676]

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

[@michaelsmiley15]

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

[@Dkrpan59]

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

[@gto433]

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

[@car24dude]

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

[@rainbowsixODST]

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

[@InterstellarRefugee]

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

[@user-si1dx3cu9u]

Which bullet train come in this route

[@PlayShorts3]

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

[@ashho313]

And to this day we don't ride rail with

[@arxligion]

This is cool and all but Phoenix would be more useful

[@stevengrey1505]

This train will only benefit high desert residents mostly

[@d7588]

Rancho Cucamonga is not LA, It's San Bernadino County,

[@THE_IRON_HORSE]

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

[@RcottR]

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

[@bobbobsin3202]

It will cost an arm and a leg 😱

[@alancampos8906]

3:13 first ? Are you sure ?

[@mrxman581]

Yeah, no, that would be CAHSR.

[@kyrieelite]

lol everyone pretends Acela doesn’t exist

[@alancampos8906]

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

[@bonaz11]

@@kyrieelite cause it's not HSR

[@jlsc4125]

Seriously 12 billion for an la to vegas railway ?????? This country just can't get it's head out of its' behind. The only thing stupider than that was the 10 Billion gift and charger monopoly that went to Elon Musk.

[@GolemDude]

Vagus looking for a new influx of gamblers

[@BlubberBuddha]

but why the fuck is it one way

[@rolandsrepetto9907]

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

[@triplethreatpodcasts]

Yes, there are signals. Single track is surprisingly common

[@ddddirge]

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

[@mrxman581]

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

[@kyrieelite]

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

[@triplethreatpodcasts]

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

[@PatrickSmith]

What a waste of public money. $12 billion so that people can further waste their money by dumping it into Las Vegas casinos.

[@JohnHausser]

I can assure you that in 🇨🇦 a similar project would cost at least 30BN 😅

[@stickynorth]

WRONG! Even the Ellis Don Prairie Link planned for Edmonton to Calgary at the same distance of 200 miles or 320 km or so is planned to cost $9.6B... And that's for a greenfield double-track electric line running at 400 km/h the highest speed possible...

[@stickynorth]

And that's CAD...

[@mrxman581]

BLW will cost much more than 12B and take longer to finish.

[@KaibilBalam]

USA will never get a maglev train this was such a wasted opportunity smh

[@kyrieelite]

Mag levs have higher costs and lower capacities bc you can’t run trains as frequently. They are also less interoperable. A high speed train can run at low speed on other electrified rail, a maglev can’t leave its infrastructure

[@mo_b.]

SF to Sacramento

[@DerekVuong7799]

Why are we investing old technology we shouldn't be looking to the future let's go supersonic instead.

[@dxelson]

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

[@asetiawan73]

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

[@Hastdupech8509]

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

[@mrxman581]

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

[@user-dj7wv5ok2x]

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

[@Ven100]

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

[@MrCubflyer]

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

[@aeroaa2]

why is your audio/mic so low on this video

[@SoCalHighIron]

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

[@mrxman581]

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

[@SoCalHighIron]

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

[@giacomogiordano7348]

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

[@kyrieelite]

Video said 230kph not mph

[@kyrieelite]

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

[@spy_balloon]

pfftt 2050 finished

[@MrNeilandio]

I fear that without a direct connection to downtown LA and downtown Las Vegas it won't work. Hopefully it can be expanded in the future but investors need to be aware that there won't be an immediate ROI on this first stage.

[@kyrieelite]

America’s 2nd high-speed rail. The 1st is Amtrak’s Acela

[@rchambers6858]

Acela isn’t even technically high speed rail according to most industry standards. It reaches a top speed of 150 mph (and this is only for short stretches) while the typical speed cited as being “true” high speed is 155 mph. For America’s standards, it’s pretty good, but compared to countries like Japan, Spain, France, Germany, and some others it’s actually not that impressive!

[@rppacademic]

What? You call that hsr? Because it runs at highspeed for a few miles? Think again.

[@Eyes-of-Horus]

Actaually, China offered to built the high speed rail from LA to Vegas more than a decade ago. But the California Legislature put the Kaibosh on that real fast. It had to do with money. China would have built it and and paid them for it. Considering that the train would have been filled every weekend the Chinese would have been paid off in a matter of a few years. California politicians ain't very bright.

[@omalashevich]

China 🇨🇳 also huge country. It’s not an excuse!)

[@shaufiqfauzi6640]

American gave away money hundreds of billions dollars to Ukraine but don't have money to build 9 billion dollars HSR 😂 I mean the defence budget alone can build HSR all across USA hundreds of thousands KM railway.

[@danielfchen8895]

Infrastructure spending has been decreasing every year for the past 40 years. It’s a cycle for any developed nation. US main budget goes to defense spending bc it wants to police the world. You’re right it should focus on internally but politically us wants to be the big boss so in order to show the world that they’re big boss they gotta spend billions and trillions on the military. China is also doing that. You can see that they’re slowing down on their infrastructure spending and putting more money into their military.

[@northbytrain]

There's always the potential that Brightline West could be extended into the city centre to the CaHSR station.

[@mrxman581]

No, there isn't. The CEO already said as much in a interview.

[@northbytrain]

@@mrxman581 Oh... sad

[@user-dj7wv5ok2x]

​@@northbytrainSoon to change! The state HSR system will be extended and expanded once it goes into operation. If this seems expensive, look at the almost TRILLION DOLLARS now wasted on these "Hitler strips" that blanket the entire nation in ribbons of inefficient concrete which ruin and destroy our cities, remove hundreds of acres of valuable real estate from the tax rolls, add to environmental pollution of all kinds, and serve as useless, long linear parking lots in traffic jams.

[@jojje3000-1]

Looks like a money dispenser for the tax, inflate and spend policy

[@IamLegendaryguy1998]

Can you make a video about the Francis Scott Scott Key bridge in Baltimore Maryland or that I 95 bridge collapsed in Norwalk Connecticut

[@passatboi]

It was in Philadelphia, PA

[@IamLegendaryguy1998]

@@passatboi that was last year in Philly The one in Connecticut is this year

[@passatboi]

@@IamLegendaryguy1998 Geez. I didn't hear about a collapse in CT. I'll have to Google it.

[@adrian_zombturtle148]

Wow i live next to the proposed LA connection, now ill be able to go to Las Vegas for legal prostitution so easily

[@davidoneil6869]

In your dreams

[@andyhughes1776]

$12 billion but STILL slower than any other high speed trains in the world such as those in China, Japan, or Europe. And it has been in the works for 30 years now!

[@Ven100]

Wrong. The 100-119 MPH average speed for Brightline West will be higher than the average speed of HSR routes such as Frankfurt to Berlin or Brussels to Amsterdam.

[@andyhughes1776]

@@Ven100 China and Japan have faster trains then.

[@pit5000]

not impressed. if it's under 1 hour then I'd consider it.

[@MrRussian187]

Plane ticket $200 1 hr flight train 2 hrs $400 what you chose?

[@melaniedrogr951]

It is a great project, but they are severely shooting themselves in the foot by ending the train in the outskirts of las vegas. If anything THE advantage of rail (high and normal speed) is that it takes you straight to the city centre without traffic jams, long urban roads, and having to fight someone over a parking spot, and they largely trow it away like this.

[@sirmount2636]

They can’t even complete a train between Los Angeles & San Francisco. It’s been in development since 2008.

[@JermaniBurroughs]

But Fortress the Company that’s running. Brightline West Built & Expanded a Higher Speed Rail in Florida in 4 - 9 Years

[@nlpnt]

This is why they're doing single-track in the Interstate median. Right-of-way acquisition was what took CAHSR so long and cost so much, it's right there in the video.

[@corgg2]

California is going alone to build a High Speed Rail at the highest specs possible when no other line has been built in the US this way. Land rights acquisitions and no organic-to-the-state experience exists. All work has to be outsourced for this project. This is why there is substantial delay and cost associated with that effort. This LA to Vegas line is happening a lot quicker and faster because the right of way for over 90% of the route is already a Federal highway. It's not to the highest specs possible, and it exists at grade with a road system that already exists.

[@AL-lh2ht]

Basically the reason its takng so long as the state is paying like 80% or more percent of it

[@Hastdupech8509]

​@@AL-lh2htWhich is actually braindead, national governments exist also to help States (or regions or provinces, names don't change the substance) with these infrastructural challenges which are of national relevance. Never understood why the federal government doesn't back up this, it did building the Interstate system

[@ll4680]

One rail line built will not stop climate change. Calm down😂

[@stickynorth]

Two things the video didn't address but should have... The stop at Rancho C. is only TEMPORARY as the train is planned to go fully downtown ONCE Metrolink electrifies the joint corridor OR the California HSR Phase 2 gets approved or partially built, this will allow trains to hit Union Station again at relatively high speeds... And secondly, The Inland Empire of Ontario/San Bernardino is the fastest growing part of California where as Los Angeles itself is losing people at a record pace. Where to? The High Desert cities of Lancaster and Palmdale and of course the aforementioned I.E. so really the need to get downtown is a lot smaller than people actually think. There's another video that breaks down where the closest airport is to where people actually live and the traditional West side/Hollywood area actually has the 3rd smallest population now because of astronomical growth in I.E, San Fernando Valley i.e. out to Santa Clarita and of course The O.C. which went from provincial Republican backwater mercilessly mocked on The O.C. to becoming a very mixed race, mixed income, mixed politically region that is a nice alternative to L.A. itself... Even with its own streetcar system and soon to be improved LRT link to the rest of the region again via the abandoned and revived old Pacific Electric railway line...

[@mrxman581]

The electrification of Metrolink will not impact BLW. The CEO has akready said that a direct Union Station connection is not happening any time soon. Their plan is to connect to CAHSR via the possible desert rail line connection mentioned in this video. LA County is the most populated in the country. It's equivalent to all the other counties, you listed, combined.

[@yougoslavia]

I support rail transport but I don't support the existence of Las Vegas.

[@michaelmurphy825]

looks like the government subsidizing the gambling industry

[@mrxman581]

Point of clarification, the CAHSR is the FIRST HSR route in the USA to be built. It's the CAHSR that started the HSR interest in the USA. Make no mistake the CAHSR will be the preeminent HSR route in the USA when the first 171 mile section is completed in 2030. It will be fully double tracked on a new completely grade separated ROW capable of reaching speeds of 220 mph for significant portions of the route unlike BLW's single tracked route built on the cheap to save money at the cost of better train service.

[@kyrieelite]

Amtrak’s Acela is the first that was built, CAHSR is the first 200mph line to have begun construction.

[@Ven100]

@@kyrieelite And Brightline will be the first 200 MPH train in operation.

[@ibold8397]

Waste of money🙄

[@ammarmohammed4864]

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