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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 [...]
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 [...]
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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