Vegas-to-Victorville High Speed Rail DesertXpress Final EIS Completed; Barstow not on the route.

[bananas]

http://www.cahsrblog.com/2011/03/desertxpress-final-eis-completed/

DesertXpress Final EIS Completed
Mar 25th, 2011 | Posted by Robert Cruickshank

The Vegas-to-Victorville (and eventually to Palmdale and LA Union Station) DesertXpress high speed rail project has gotten one step closer to construction, with the completion of the Final Environmental Impact Statement. Comments on the Final EIS will begin on April 1 and will be accepted until May 2.

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Not everyone is happy, including the city of Barstow, which is upset that they’re going to be bypassed:

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[kestrel91316]

1. Until it connects to Palmdale and Union Station downtown, it will be useless.

[bananas]

2. I don't know why it's not stopping at Barstow.

[Journeyman]

3. I wonder if this is a viable option, a train that never stops. . .

http://ebaumnation.com/2010/04/16/the-train-that-never-stops

[shanti]

4. wow!

that's pretty awesome, if you ask me.

[Journeyman]

5. Conceptually, it is very awesome. Among the problems I perceive with it are. . .

the effects of such sudden acceleration, 0-200 almost instantaneously; the technical aspects of making something like that work; and the need for more than two of those -- the distance from Barstow to Victorville at 200 mph would be far too short a time for elderly and otherwise slow-moving people to get from the train to the "escape pod." I'm sure there are a host of other issues and concerns, but as a concept it seems to me it would solve the issues we have with bullet trains and the inability to stop at every station along its route.

[msongs]

6. great as long as las vegas pays for the entire thing since it is entirely self serving nt