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At a press conference this afternoon in Las Vegas, Senator Harry Reid and US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood talked about federal loan guarantees for the DesertXpress high speed rail project to connect Las Vegas to Southern California. From the Las Vegas Sun: Harry Reid was joined at UNLV by LaHood and transportation consultant Tom Skancke [...]
Over at the Press-Enterprise, Dug Begley provides a very thorough overview of the three proposed Las Vegas to Southern California HSR systems: • DesertXpress, a steel-wheel HSR train running initially from Vegas to Victorville with a later extension to Palmdale and a transfer to the CA HSR system • Maglev, which would theoretically run from [...]
It was rather appropriate that the Las Vegas Review-Journal chose today to run their long and very informative article on the various passenger rail proposals to link Southern Nevada and Southern California. The article mentions the five different train proposals, but really focuses on the DesertXpress project, which would provide 150mph high speed train service [...]
Sorry for the silence over the last few days – I’ve been here in Las Vegas at Netroots Nation, a national convention of us crazy progressive bloggers. You’ll be happy to know that it has been a very valuable and eventful conference, with some important HSR-related news emerging here. Yesterday, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood [...]
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