Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesBrightline, the sole private passenger rail service in the U.S., has a green light from transit agencies to begin planning two extensions for its $5 billion high-speed train to Las Vegas that would tie it into existing Los Angeles-area commuter rail lines and, someday, California’s high-speed rail project. “We’ve always had plans to extend high-speed rail west to connect directly to the L.A.-area via Metrolink. The "High Desert Corridor" road project from Palmdale, California, to Victorville, California, is ... [+] now envisioned as a 54-mile high-speed rail corridor. Palmdale is also the site of a future stop for the California High-Speed Rail Authority, which is envisioned to someday provide rapid train travel between San Francisco and Los Angeles in under three hours. Both the state rail project and Brightline’s private line will benefit from linking up and “we've been very supportive of that project moving forward,” Kelly tells Forbes.

Source: Forbes August 22, 2020 09:56 UTC