Except trains don't really make "profits".
California has no reason to build a wider highway or high speed train to Las Vegas. Guessing 97% of the road between LA and Las Vegas is in California. CA generates no tax revenue from someone driving to another state o spend their money.
Actually more than 50% of the Las Vegas area population is from Southern California and locals from Vegas travel to Socal all the time to spend fortunes on Disneyland and beach trips. A high-speed rail would make sense because when something happens on that highway it backs up for miles. I live in the Vegas area and hate driving to Socal on the 15. That road is dangerous. I'd take a train if it was available.
Some traffic? A typical jam up on the 15 can last up to 6 hours. Especially weekend or holiday traffic, which is the time most people travel back and forth. I grew in the D.C. Northern Virginia area and that was nasty traffic but at least we had side roads and other shortcuts.So the question becomes do I sit in some traffic and have the luxury of having my car in S Cal or do I ride the train to SoCal and deal with SoCal mass transit/ride sharing? The majority would probably chose the former....
worst rideshare at LAS was a couple years back. damn EDM festival out at the race track. 45 minutes in the garage with hundreds of people nut to butt....Normally dont have issues thoughAdding that 45 min delay to the 2 hours prior to flight time, and maybe about 30-45 min getting to the airport. If they drove they would have been in Vegas by the time that plane loaded up, taxied and took off for the 1 hour-ish flight to LAS then the taxi time to the gate, unloaded the PAX and bags, walk through the terminal to baggage claim (if they had checked items) and to the nightmare clusterf* that is the ride-sharing garage and to the hotel (30-45 min).
Yeah its apocalyptical chaos when there is an event or holiday. It is the most unorganized thing I have ever seen. People running around everywhere looking for their driver, hoping in the wrong cars, yelling at each other, horns honking. I needed a Xanax after that.worst rideshare at LAS was a couple years back. damn EDM festival out at the race track. 45 minutes in the garage with hundreds of people nut to butt....Normally dont have issues though
you're not wrong...the US just hasn't figure out how to do it like the rest of the worldExcept trains don't really make "profits".
My theory is that it has more to do with the US abysmal PTO situation than any of the other usually-cited reasons.you're not wrong...the US just hasn't figure out how to do it like the rest of the world
someone correct me if this is wrong, but I heard a few years ago that Amtrak has never made a profit...(I could google this but what's the fun in that)
Saw this the other day in a social media post. I haven't verified it for source or accuracy so caveat emptor.
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This map is sus. There are currently no tracks between Dallas and Houston (labelled as New Services above), but there is a project for high-speed rail that probably will happen in the next decade. It has received all approvals needed, has funding, and now just has to negotiate the rights-of-way.
Saw this the other day in a social media post. I haven't verified it for source or accuracy so caveat emptor.
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Actually more than 50% of the Las Vegas area population is from Southern California and locals from Vegas travel to Socal all the time to spend fortunes on Disneyland and beach trips. A high-speed rail would make sense because when something happens on that highway it backs up for miles. I live in the Vegas area and hate driving to Socal on the 15. That road is dangerous. I'd take a train if it was available.
It’s been 5 days since I was last in Las Vegas. Based on the direction of heavy traffic on Thursday and Friday (north bound) and again on Sunday afternoon (south bound). I strongly suspect Las Vegas has a lot more to gain from high speed rail.Actually more than 50% of the Las Vegas area population is from Southern California and locals from Vegas travel to Socal all the time to spend fortunes on Disneyland and beach trips. A high-speed rail would make sense because when something happens on that highway it backs up for miles. I live in the Vegas area and hate driving to Socal on the 15. That road is dangerous. I'd take a train if it was available.
It’s been 5 days since I was last in Las Vegas. Based on the direction of heavy traffic on Thursday and Friday (north bound) and again on Sunday afternoon (south bound). I strongly suspect Las Vegas has a lot more to gain from high speed rail.
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