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The Vegas-to-Victorville (and eventually to Palmdale and LA Union Station) DesertXpress high speed rail project has gotten one step closer to construction, with the completion of the Final Environmental Impact Statement. Comments on the Final EIS will begin on April 1 and will be accepted until May 2. Senator Harry Reid and US Transportation Secretary [...]
Late last week, we learned that Tom Stone, who has led the DesertXpress HSR project to link SoCal to Las Vegas for 9 years, has retired: Tom Stone, president and a member of the board of directors, has worked on the project for nine years. The company is awaiting a final environmental impact statement and [...]
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 [...]
Executives at the DesertXpress high speed rail project, which would link Southern California to Las Vegas, were hoping to break ground on their project by the end of this year. However, the Federal Railroad Administration has thrown a wrench into those plans, issuing a Supplemental EIR that requires at least two more public hearings and [...]
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