DesertXpress: Tim Tebow high speed train?

DesertXpress: Tim Tebow high speed train?

class = “caption”> Richard N. Velotta How do the Denver Broncos I had my fair share of seeing, probably come from behind victory after quarterback Tim Tebow was named head of the team last season.

In several games, the Broncos have led to death, only to be rescued the amazing game that turned a certain defeat into a victory.

Now, I wonder if the announcement last week in Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority DesertXpress and entrepreneurship is equivalent to a high speed train passing of Ave Maria.

Metro, which operates the Los Angeles light rail transport system and DesertXpress a private company that plans to build a 185 mile high speed rail line between Las Vegas and Victorville, California, signed a Memorandum of Understanding that is expected to give rise to the construction of about 50 km rail line between Victorville and Palmdale, California, and the eventual transfer of passengers from Palmdale to downtown Los An geles.

For those who have closely followed this story, the path between Victorville and Palmdale has always been the missing link. California is a high-speed rail system s’enruten through Palmdale. Victorville is always seen as the South Terminal DesertXpress.

building that missing link between Palmdale and Victorville can change a game. Basically, it becomes possible to think of being able to take a train between Los Angeles and Las Vegas on a trip that will take seven hours.

Many readers have pointed out that there is the railway between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. But do not build high speed trains and freight transport is a priority in this line, passenger trains must wait for freight trains to pass where no two ways – most of the route

Sun In addition, passenger trains could reach about 80 km per hour, which would take seven hours of travel. Because he left his route of Amtrak’s Desert Wind in 1997. Las Vegas Railway Express Inc. continues efforts to use the route for the project, the train X says in its website that trains traveling at five.

According to the agreement signed on Thursday, Andrew Mack, director of operations and DesertXpress Art Leahy, CEO of Metro, DesertXpress work in obtaining the necessary environmental approvals for construction along corridor between Victorville and Palmdale – a process the company and the route between Las Vegas and Victorville.

Metro work on the development of improved roads between Palmdale and Union Station in Los Angeles. The Memorandum allows both companies to explore opportunities in which passengers would be transported to Los Angeles

They will be able to study double and triple track route to Palmdale and whether to upgrade the tracks on the rules that allow DesertXpress teaches the use feasible.

As with any important proposal, which is new, there are more questions than answers.

Will it be possible for passengers to approach the train to Los Angeles (or Las Vegas) and do all the time without having to get off the train? If passengers must transfer to the intermodal station in Palmdale?

About this trip? On the basis of distance and steady pace along the existing tracks, the journey will probably take at least 2 1/2 hours. It would be fast enough to compete against trips by car (unlikely) or plane (maybe)

to travel at any time expressly or there will be several stops along the way? With each stop, the concept becomes less and less viable. One would think that stopping Palmdale (point of transfer is possible) and Victorville (the point where the San Bernardino County residents can embark to go to Las Vegas) will be a possibility.

becomes an end in Victorville? If some of the ideas that seem less viable Victorville, DesertXpress plans have reduced the cell and place less emphasis in this city?

What are the implications for long-term plan? Western High Speed ​​Rail Association is always designed to Las Vegas is a natural center for future high-speed lines in Salt Lake City, Denver and Phoenix. Is this the catalyst for the south of the rail network?

Speaking rebrand DesertXpress train XpressWest consistent with this possibility.

Many people have written off as DesertXpress bad idea.

new opportunities with the Metro may be the only game company has to save the game.

Las Vegas Stories of the Sun columnist