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Originally Posted by jmecklenborg
Las Vegas trains are currently planned to terminate in Victorville, 80 miles from LA Union Station. They'll be able to piggy-back on the tunneled CAHSR entrance to Los Angeles at Palmdale.
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Rancho Cucamonga now with the planned Cajon Pass extension, and I have to assume they will find a way to get Brightline trains to LAUS or do a timed transfer to Metrolink.
The High Desert Corridor route from Victorville to Palmdale never made much sense to me. Adding HSR there was a way to greenwash a terrible sprawl-generating freeway and get exurban votes for LA County's Measure R and Measure M. Supposedly the "intention" was to make SF-LV also a profitable HSR market, but the distance is too far and the route too convoluted compared to air travel and driving.
Extending Brightline to Rancho is a better move, it opens the door for a future southward extension to San Diego. I think SD-LV is a more realistic market for rail, it's right at the sweet spot of ~300miles.