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    That's a 5 hour drive through the desert on a mostly 2-4 lane road, and there's usually a few on the side of the road cooling down. On sundays the drive back to LA can be 6-8 hours... they won't have to bulldoze any farms (it's all dirt), buy much land (government dirt), and there are big conferences in Vegas all_the_time. I think it sounds like a good start for high speed rail. Just for reference, the combined population of Las Vegas and the LA Basin is just shy of 20 million people, or more people than every other state in the union besides New York (and California).

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    bulg wrote:

    the combined population of Las Vegas and the LA Basin is just shy of 20 million people,

    The question is not how many people live in the two areas, but how many will take the high-speed train instead of their cars or planes. (trains often cost almost as much as planes to travel the same distance - unless they are heavily subsidized.) Something tells me that folks who attended conventions in Vegas are going to continue to fly in, even if LV becomes the railhub of the west.

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