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US President Joe Biden announced that the first high-speed train line in the United States will open in 2028 between Las Vegas and Los Angeles before the Olympic Games.
Biden said during his tour in Las Vegas (Nevada): “We are building the first high-speed train line in the history of our country, and it starts here.”
This high-speed train, which will connect Los Angeles (California) to Las Vegas, reduces the current journey time to a little more than two hours, while the car journey takes twice this time. This train is supposed to transport 11 million passengers annually.
The project was called “Bright Line West,” after the private company that was tasked with building it and operating the trains, and it will receive funding of three billion dollars from Biden’s grand infrastructure investment plan approved in 2021.
This project will have an environmental footprint, because this future train line “will remove 3 million vehicles from the highway,” Biden said. It would also be good for “good-paying” jobs, a promise that comes less than a year before the presidential election.
Source: Agence France-Presse
2023-12-09 22:12:32