#PacificWatch: #VegasReport: Soon the Vegas train from LA to the Strip. @JCBliss
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 14 September 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBSi on the world. |
| 0:02.0 | Jeff Bliss is Pacific Watch, Vegas Report. |
| 0:05.0 | The train, the high speed train, |
| 0:08.0 | dreamed about for years in California. |
| 0:10.0 | Well, it's coming, but not what we thought. |
| 0:13.0 | Jeff, a very good evening to you, the high speed train that's going to the state prison is still being built or speculated about. |
| 0:21.0 | However, there is a high speed train that you've sent me pictures to enjoy, and I |
| 0:27.6 | puzzle how long until I can ride it. |
| 0:30.0 | What is it, Jeff? |
| 0:31.0 | Good evening to you. |
| 0:32.0 | You mean, John. This is the Bright Line West, the 218 mile stretch of track going from Rancho |
| 0:37.8 | Cucamonga, a suburb of LA, all the way to Vegas. And this is one of those bullet trains it will move at |
| 0:44.4 | over 220 miles an hour the trip will take a little over two hours and it'll end up |
| 0:49.9 | they believe now costing two200 round trips. |
| 0:52.6 | So that'll be a huge magnet for people who are |
| 0:55.1 | to dealing with the commuter airlines basically to go from Orange County |
| 0:59.7 | in LA and Long Beach and those parts of places in Southern California where you're dealing |
| 1:04.2 | with TSA and long waits and cranky people at the gates and on and on and on |
| 1:08.7 | is if you get on this train and it can take you right to where you need to be in Vegas and they're talking |
| 1:14.1 | about a beautiful new station facility they'll build as well. Well I'm going to predict you're |
| 1:19.5 | going to see a lot of air traffic cut into because this train that they're showing us now in the |
| 1:25.6 | plans which you know I realize it's the plans but it's gorgeous it looks like |
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