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In 2010 and 2011 there were a lot of tense discussions in the San Gabriel Valley regarding a possible high speed rail alignment, with concerns in cities such as Alhambra and Rosemead about losing homes to a rail route. (See here for a bit of background.) This past week, the Southern California Association of Governments [...]
The plan to connect Anaheim to Las Vegas with a maglev system appears to be dead as its chief backer, the Southern California Association of Governments, has decided to abandon it in its new transportation plan. Dug Begley of the Press-Enterprise explains the story: Transportation planners once dreamed that super-fast trains would whisk Southern Californians [...]
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 [...]
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