Brightline West

Desert Xpress is a proposal to build a passenger train from Victorville, California, to Las Vegas, Nevada, using off-the-shelf high speed rail technology.

The proposal was initiated to provide an alternative to automobile travel between the Los Angeles, California area to Las Vegas along Interstate Highway 15. This highway, the only automobile route between the Los Angeles area and Las Vegas, is frequently snarled with traffic, especially on weekends, with a trip sometimes taking as long as eight hours.

The city of Victorville was chosen as a terminal since it is within a one hour drive of 12 million people, and extending the train line further into the Los Angeles basin through the Cajon Pass would most likely be prohibitively expensive.

The train would travel up to 180 miles per hour and would make the trip from Victorville to Las Vegas in about two hours, shaving over two hours off the travel time.

External Links

[Desert Xpress website]http://desertxpress.com