USA’s NEW High-Speed Railway ($12BN)

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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[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

[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

[JuliusUnique]

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

[xxivxvxvi]

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

[jlafunk]

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

[shipidu]

3.5Hr LA to Las Vegas? Only possible weekdays. Weekends at least 5hrs and Holidays over 6Hrs for sure.

[irenejewelrygirl-premierde]

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.

[Marco-ztfz]

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.

[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.

[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.

[Contractwiththeuniverse.]

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

[JRam-bgii]

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.

[BJIa]

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

[DarkKnight]

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

[nanaokyere]

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.

[jsn_alva]

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.

[alex]

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.

[Travel-by-Train]

Great video... Thank you for giving a lot of detail and information 🍒🍒🍒

[stefi]

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.

[sneakyvee]

2:05 says max 125mph on their website where did you get 230mph from? lol.