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Brightline is building a 12 billion dollar highspeed railway between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Since the 1960’s, the United States has tried to develop highspeed railways. For decades, nothing materialized. Then, in 2008, California highspeed rail launched, promising revolutionary rail service between Los Angeles and San Francisco. However, over 15 years later and the project has been plagued by land acquisition issues, cost overruns and a lack of funding. For a while, it seemed highspeed rail may not work in the US. Then, in Florida, a company called Brightline successfully built the country’s first privately operated intercity railway. They are now expanding and have begun construction on Brightline West, the USA’s first highspeed railway between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. With a max speed of 190 miles per hour, it will cut the travel time between the two cities from 4 hours to only 2 hours and ten minutes. Construction is starting in 2024, with an expected opening date in 2028!

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