Part Owner Of The Milwaukee Bucks Is Building A $12 Billion High Speed Bullet Train That Will Get You From LA to Las Vegas In Two Hours - It Will Serve As The Blueprint For The Rest Of The Country's High Speed Rail System
Orlando Sentinel. Getty Images.It's been a little while since we heard much about the high speed bull train coming to the United States. Feels like every few years I see this map and get excited.
What do Americans want most? The answer is this beauty below to come to life. You get us this rail system cooking and I'm certain most, if not all the problems in the country go away. We'd all become friends again, start agreeing more, and live happier lives. Just give us this. I'm shocked during presidential debates this isn't the only thing that's discussed.
Feels like everyone besides the airline companies would be stoked about this becoming a thing. San Francisco to LA. NYC to Boston. Chicago to NYC. Houston to Dallas. It'd would feel like we invented teleportation if we did it right.
Well, we finally seem to be getting there. Sorta. The first step? LA to Vegas. Now those two destinations don't exactly do anything for me, in fact it does nothing at all, but if this sets the blueprint for the rest of the world then you have my attention.
Brightline is planning to roll out a new high-speed train between the two metropolises in 2027. The new service will allow you to travel from L.A. to Vegas in just two hours, according to the Florida-based outfit. It may even prove faster than flying: The same trip via air takes one and 15 minutes, plus extra time for security, check-in, and airport transfers.
“After more than a decade of working to find a pathway, Brightline West will be the first true high-speed rail system in America and will serve as the blueprint for how we can connect major city pairs that are too short to fly and too far to drive,” Brightline CEO Mike Reininger told Robb Report via email.
The new service will help to alleviate congestion on the highways. Roughly 50 million one-way trips are made annually between the two destinations, with 85 percent of them carried out by car or bus. Brightline says that at full operation it expects to execute 12 million one-way jaunts per year. The train will offer travelers free onboard WiFi, food, beverages, luggage storage, and hotel check-in services.
Brightline is seeking $3.75 billion in federal funding to bring the Nevada-California line to fruition. It’s already received support from some government officials, too. A bipartisan congressional group from Nevada and California asked the Biden administration to fast-track funding for the project on Monday, as reported by the Associated Press.
That $3.75B they're looking for might be the easiest money ever asked for.
"Hey Vegas heads, we're thinking about adding hundreds of millions of people, probably billions to your strip every year. You guys in?"
Not even sure you have to finish the question before they cut the check.
What I will say is that if the train is going 200mph I need the ride time less than two hours. If we're going that fast it shouldn't take so long. You best be making this an hour and change at most. I wonder if big airline or the big auto will make sure this train doesn't go too fast. Scumbags just don't want us to have fun.
Looks like Orlando to Miami is also on the verge of being announced.
(Daily Mail) The company this summer is set to unveil another project with Edens - an anticipated rail that connects the Florida metropolises of Orlando to Miami, at a cost of roughly $6b, $100m of which came out of the 61-year-old's own pocket.
Now all of this sounds good in theory, but until we see it in action it obviously means nothing. The brain child of this idea is billionaire Wes Edens, the co-owner of the Bucks. If this man gives the world Mallory Edens AND the creation of the high speed, bullet train system in the U.S. then we'd be forced to call him one of the greatest Americans to ever live.
Honestly might be worth adding a head on Mount Rushmore if this all goes to plan.