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Brightline West’s high-speed rail will make plenty of stops along its 218-mile route from Las Vegas to Rancho Cucamonga. Victor Valley and Hesperia are among the stops included on the trip.
Brightline West is a privately run high-speed rail route, currently under construction, to link the Las Vegas Valley and Rancho Cucamonga in Greater Los Angeles through the California high desert. The line will connect with existing rail at Rancho Cucamonga station of Metrolink 's San Bernardino Line , a commuter rail line in Southern California.
None of the work, however, required the level of construction necessary along the Brightline West route. Brightline West will use 700,000 concrete rail ties, 2.2 million tons of ballast and 63,000 ...
Job opportunities . In partnership with unions and governed by project labor agreements, the project will directly create over 10,000 union construction jobs, most not requiring a college degree.
The plan was later renamed Brightline, and began service between Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach on January 13, 2018, and to Miami on May 19, 2018, although only at speeds up to 79 mph (127 km/h). On September 22, 2023 service to Orlando with speeds up to 125 mph (201 km/h) on dedicated tracks, and 90 mph (145 km/h) on shared tracks began.
The quiet zones were originally planned to be in place when Brightline would become operational between Miami and West Palm Beach by the end of 2017. Brightline started service on January 11, 2018, but various delays in constructing the quiet zones stretched their in-service date to sometime in March.
Oak View Group plans a 20,000-seat arena on a 25-acre (10 ha) site adjacent to the station. [7] This project is part of a larger 66-acre (27 ha) development envisioned as a sports and entertainment district. [8]
The Southern Tier is "a great fit" for a new Siemens Mobility train manufacturing facility that could create several hundred jobs, said Schumer.