Las Vegas-S. California high-speed rail gets $3 billion federal grant
Brightline, the only private intercity passenger railroad in the country, is getting a $3 billion federal grant to help build a $12 billion high-speed railway between Las Vegas and Southern California — an almost unheard of infusion of federal money for a private project that would help to put trains traveling at 186 mph on U.S. tracks by 2028.
The grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation will help to advance the 218-mile route between Las Vegas and suburban Los Angeles, the two U.S. senators from Nevada announced Tuesday. The project, dubbed Brightline West, ranks at the top of U.S. projects that have boosted prospects for a domestic high-speed-rail system.
Brightline has land, federal reviews and labor agreements in place, and company leaders say it could be built in four years. Its prospects are good, industry leaders and transportation officials say, amid renewed attention to rail in Washington and historic levels of federal funding for a national rail network that has lagged on the global stage.
“Connecting Las Vegas and Southern California by high-speed rail will create tens of thousands of good-paying union jobs, boost our Southern Nevada tourism economy, and finally help us cut down on I-15 traffic,” Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) said in a statement.
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