Could You Soon Be Training It to Las Vegas from California?
That's the hope of a new railroad company who announced yesterday their plans for a high-speed rail service from Victorville, Calif. (an hour and a half outside of Los Angeles) to Las Vegas. Called the DesertXpress the train would speed passengers to the Strip in about 84 minutes for the cost of $55, one-way. But that's not all:
The plan is for the "Las Vegas Experience" to start in Victorville with valet service, hotel check-in and through-checking of baggage straight to the resorts, and with convenient car rental facilities for the Southern California–bound travelers. Once in Las Vegas, there will be convenient access to the Las Vegas resorts with shuttle service, rental cars, taxis and potentially a direct connection to the Las Vegas Monorail.
There's already a proposed magnetic levitation rail service from SoCal to Nevada originating out of the more tourist-friendly locale of Anaheim but the LV Sun reports that at a meeting to discuss the DesertXpress' environmental impact, this train could cost significantly less to build.
For anyone who's ever got lost on the way to Vegas driving from LA on the I-15 or landed at McCarren Airport in a wind storm (we've been fortunate to do both), this is great news, even if you have to drive about an hour and a half to the Victorville station. However, it's still a long ways off. If all things go right for DesertXpress, the construction of its first phase (a second phase would originate at a different SoCal location) would be completed in four years. Guh.
[Photo: DesertXpress]
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