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DesertXpress still plans to start construction in 2012 – if they can get $6 billion in federal loans: Officials with the proposed high-speed train linking Las Vegas and Southern California expect to get an answer in six to nine months on plans to borrow about $6 billion from the federal government. If all goes according [...]
Time to look in on the other high speed rail project in California, DesertXpress, which received its FRA Record of Decision this week. From Vegas Inc: The U.S. Transportation Department has given the green light to developers of DesertXpress to begin preliminary engineering for the $6 billion, 186-mile high-speed rail project that would link Las [...]
It would be no small irony if DesertXpress’s path from Victorville to Palmdale – and thus to downtown LA – were to be blazed by a freeway. But that might just be the answer, as the long-discussed proposal for a freeway along the Highway 18/138 corridor in the Antelope Valley is revived again: The proposed [...]
There are two kinds of environmentalism out there. The older kind is a 20th century environmentalism that believes the automobile society is perfectly fine – the problem is when it encroaches on open space. This kind of environmentalist looks at you quizzically when you talk about carbon emissions or sustainable transportation, but gets very worked [...]
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