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The $400 is for a round trip. & not for years until ridership increases. First class or coach? The story doesn't say
Author: Worth a read
Date: 03-06-2024 - 13:55
It was not paywalled for me.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-03-01/train-florida-high-speed-rail-line-from-vegas-to-california
The writer can be annoying. He presents 'facts' about Brightline Florida out of context to spin a narrative. To dramatize. But it is not all bad. There are new details buried further down. Such as
That has allowed the company to make some tough decisions, such as terminating the line in Rancho Cucamonga instead of Los Angeles. Reininger said “in a perfect world” he would have pushed into Union Station downtown, but pointed to numerous obstacles, including the lack of right-of-way space and the difficulty of electrifying tracks through an urban corridor, all of which would significantly increase the cost and time.
Reininger said the trains will slow to between 85 mph and 100 mph as they go up and down the passes, but using the existing highway infrastructure will ease the engineering hurdle.
“It’s not through the Alps,” Reininger said. But the company has modeled its practices “after the best of what we observed elsewhere, in particular Europe.”
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-03-01/train-florida-high-speed-rail-line-from-vegas-to-california
The writer can be annoying. He presents 'facts' about Brightline Florida out of context to spin a narrative. To dramatize. But it is not all bad. There are new details buried further down. Such as
That has allowed the company to make some tough decisions, such as terminating the line in Rancho Cucamonga instead of Los Angeles. Reininger said “in a perfect world” he would have pushed into Union Station downtown, but pointed to numerous obstacles, including the lack of right-of-way space and the difficulty of electrifying tracks through an urban corridor, all of which would significantly increase the cost and time.
Reininger said the trains will slow to between 85 mph and 100 mph as they go up and down the passes, but using the existing highway infrastructure will ease the engineering hurdle.
“It’s not through the Alps,” Reininger said. But the company has modeled its practices “after the best of what we observed elsewhere, in particular Europe.”
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 Brightline Vegas - Not gonna be cheap
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El Gringo | 03-06-2024 - 13:20 |
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The $400 is for a round trip. & not for years until ridership increases. First class or coach? The story doesn't say |
Worth a read | 03-06-2024 - 13:55 |
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Re: The $400 is for a round trip. & not for years until ridership increases. First class or coach? The story doesn't say
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El Gringo | 03-06-2024 - 18:14 |