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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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\"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.\"<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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