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Re: Palmdale to LV High/Low Speed Rail Link Closer to Being Built |
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Posted by WillD on Sun Jun 10 21:23:58 2012, in response to Re: Palmdale to LV High/Low Speed Rail Link Closer to Being Built, posted by Olog-hai on Sun Jun 10 20:33:48 2012. It may not be high speed, but their expresses do the LA-Palmdale run in about 1 hour, 30 minutes. With 30 minutes to do the 60 mile run from Palmdale to Victorville at 150mph and another 1 hour 30 minutes to get from Victorville to Vegas that's a total LAUPT to LV trip time of 3 hours and 30 minutes. That's nearly a hour faster than the same trip can be completed with a car. Even if we stop the train at Palmdale to add a diesel locomotive with which to complete the trip to LAUPT it'd still be faster than driving.And it goes without saying that as CHSRA gets its system over Tehachapi and builds the route down Soledad Canyon and into the San Fernando Valley the disparity between driving and riding the HST would become even greater. Eventually the CHSRA system will provide a 27 minute trip between LA and Palmdale, which would result in an hour reduction in trip time over what is available today and make the line extremely competitive with the many airliners that currently ply that route. |
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