Comments on: California’s Proposed High-Speed Train System http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=394 Blogging at KelsoCartography.com Sat, 11 Aug 2012 01:39:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Rafael http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=394&cpage=1#comment-1604 Rafael Tue, 27 May 2008 22:42:26 +0000 http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=394#comment-1604 Too bad Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev) is pressing ahead with plans for an incompatible maglev gadgetbahn from Las Vegas to Primm, with a view to extending it as far as Anaheim via the Cajon Pass. Moreover, he wants to spend $4 billion on a new airport between Jean and Primm to relieve congestion at McCurran.

With the price of oil shooting through the roof, it would make MUCH more sense to construct a spur off the California network. About 30% of all flights into and out of Las Vegas are to airports serving cities that will also be served by high speed rail. The spur, indeed the whole network, could easily be powered using only renewable solar thermal and hydro power from Nevada.

Without any intermediate stops and a sufficiently straight alignment, it would only take 2:00 hours to get from LA to Las Vegas, 3:00 from Silicon Valley or Sacramento and al little longer from SF or San Diego.

See this Google map for details:

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=107511680599374219842.00044e26854cb91cf518e&z=7

]]> By: Matheau Dakoske http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=394&cpage=1#comment-1600 Matheau Dakoske Tue, 27 May 2008 17:27:02 +0000 http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=394#comment-1600 Wow. I could really use this today.

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