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4/14/2021

Rail News: High-Speed Rail

Brightline West is on schedule to start construction of a high-speed rail route between Las Vegas and Southern California in the second quarter, the company's chief executive officer told a Las Vegas newspaper.

Brightline West CEO Mike Reininger did not share with the Reno Gazette Journal a definitive date of groundbreaking on the 170-mile route between Las Vegas and Victorville, California, however.

"The world changed as a result of the pandemic, but we continued to work wherever we possibly could toward advancing the ball," Reininger said. "The project remains a very high priority for us."

In a January letter to the Nevada High-Speed Rail Authority, Brightline officials outlined the challenges the pandemic created in the company's ability to obtain funding for the project.

Meanwhile, DesertXpress Enterprises LLC doing business as Brightline West yesterday submitted to the Surface Transportation Board (STB) a petition for exemption from certain regulatory requirements in order to construct and operate an extended high-speed rail line between Victor Valley and Rancho Cucamonga, California, a distance of about 50 miles. That proposed line would extend the company's previously approved Las Vegas-to-Victorville high-speed rail service.

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