{"id":160289,"date":"2023-03-14T16:24:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T21:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/on-track-a-bullet-train-from-las-vegas-to-los-angeles-by-2027"},"modified":"2023-03-14T16:24:01","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T21:24:01","slug":"on-track-a-bullet-train-from-las-vegas-to-los-angeles-by-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/on-track-a-bullet-train-from-las-vegas-to-los-angeles-by-2027","title":{"rendered":"On track: A bullet train from Las Vegas to Los Angeles by 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/on-track-a-bullet-train-from-las-vegas-to-los-angeles-by-20272.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>A green bullet train capable of touching 200 miles per hour<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The proposed 218-mile high-speed network will connect Las Vegas and Southern California with <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/transportation\/radical-railways-15-technologies-that-could-drive-the-future-of-trains\" title=\"technology\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">technology<\/a> that allows it to maintain a cruising speed of 200 miles per hour (321 km\/h). This means the travel time between the cities will be just over an hour. In comparison, a journey by car takes over four hours.<\/p>\n<p>The expenditure on the project is expected to provide a much-needed boost to the economy, including the creation of nearly 35,000 jobs during the construction phase and around 10,000 permanent jobs. According to Brightline, the fully electric, emission-free system will be one of the greenest forms of transportation in the U.S., removing 3 million cars and 400,000 tons of CO2 each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A green bullet train capable of touching 200 miles per hour The proposed 218-mile high-speed network will connect Las Vegas and Southern California with technology that allows it to maintain a cruising speed of 200 miles per hour (321 km\/h). This means the travel time between the cities will be just over an hour. In [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":687,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1878,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-employment","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}