Brightline West: Why California Is Building ANOTHER High-Speed Rail Line

Brightline West: Why California Is Building ANOTHER High-Speed Rail Line

the United States still doesn’t have a single high-speed rail, and the only one under construction has failed to progress as planned. In the last 15 years, California High Speed Rail has made some progress, but the timeline for completion has been moved back by more than a decade and cost estimates have grown by the billions. However, a new company is striving to introduce high-speed rail to the US within a few years, and it appears to hold promise. Today let's examine why the newest initiative might just be America’s best chance for high-speed rail yet.

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0:00 America's Struggle To Build HSR
1:14 New Project Breaks Ground
2:16 Introducing Brightline West
5:12 Differences between CAHSR & Brightline West
9:08 America's Rail Revolution

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[ybvkdvh]

13 Billion Budget approved to High speed rail Vegas to Los Angeles. 3 Billion budget approved to California speed rail

[euniceibeh]

Great! At last, a Bright line idea in the Right direction to help the inhabitants of California. This transportation will surely boost travel rail system! Bravo! Californians!

[steveciccarelli]

Who wants to fly out of LAX to Vegas? The train will beat spending hours around and thru LAX. Drop the car off at Rancho C. Train to Vegas, shuttle to hotel. Very easy. 😊 also beats those caravans driving to / from on 15.

[cynthiagarytravel]

So happy they are finally building Beightline West!!

[DanielRidgewell]

I heard that Brightline is hiring companies like Siemens to built the First High Speed Rail in America so that’s good. Connecting Vegas to La, by I mean La, Rancho Cucamonga.

[rickns]

Hurray for Brightline! Looks like a great investment to me! Brightline shouldn't have any problem raising the money to complete this project. Congratulations to a forward looking organization.

[williacena]

Florida’s Brightline “built as americas first true high speed rail line”? That’s a joke right?

[leonwilson]

I believe someone was thinking about high speed rail when I-15 was designed the way it is.

[dmqgtcc]

I hope that Brightline builds a H.S. Rail line from LA to San Diego, running in the middle of the 5 and 405 freeways, maybe with a Monorail or Maglev . That should be fast and cheap. They could start ASAP and finish in time for the LA Olympics too.

[tonyburzio]

The reason for Brightline is the yet to be built city of New Vegas and the second International Airport near the state line.

[shivamchaudhry]

I get that higher pay in the USA makes construction expensive and also the higher quality control measures but still they really need to cut down costs. There has to be a way that they achieve it.

[mike]

Each ticket to ride will pay for the project itself and expect to receive more money than it will receive from ticket sales. This will include expanding travel to any city in the future.

[mike]

The trick is build all rail system now with no cast the ticket price will pay for the project.

[llndmpx]

Brightline will probably pick up the slack by finishing the LA to SF and LA and SD lines

[relaws]

The freight train companies won't allow Amtrak to service LA to LV.

[AndrewLambert-wiet]

HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF USA DOLLARS. HOW LONG IS THE RAILWAY LINE? IS IT OKAY IF I COMPARE WITH PROJECTS IN ALL THE NATIONS WITH SIMILAR PROJECTS?

[nvmcrider]

It’s ridiculous that you have to get ground transportation to the strip after arriving in Vegas. If the Vegas politicians weren’t blowing the taxi authorities, maybe we could get rail to the strip

[Geotpf]

Brightline is a much simpler project. Not fully double tracked, slower trains, fewer stations, reused right of way. Good for what it is, but a much smaller, simpler, cheaper project that does a lot less than the CHSR system intends to do. Perfect for a simple Vegas run, though.

[navajojohn]

People in West Palm Beach Florida using the BL train to commute to Fort Lauderdale for work just about 47 miles each way just got a monthly ticket (40 one way trips) price increase. It was $399 and now it will be $1400.00. Enjoy the train.

[ToneStevens]

Same price as a flight? I’d just fly the 45 min.