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Antonovich Supports Private High-Speed Rail Line from Victorville to Vegas

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[Supervisor Mike Antonovich] – A motion by MTA Chairman and Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich, that asked the MTA Board to support XpressWest’s Federal Rail Administration loan application to construct a high speed rail line between Las Vegas and Victorville, was unanimously approved by the MTA Board.

“As part of our effort to develop a regional transportation system, the potential to link XpressWest to Palmdale and the entire Metrolink system creates enhanced opportunities for expanded mobility in Los Angeles County and throughout Southern California,” said Antonovich.

Prior MTA Board action approved an Antonovich motion to support connecting the southern terminus of XpressWest in Victorville to the Metrolink/future California High Speed Rail station in Palmdale with a High Speed Rail link within the multi-modal High Desert Corridor right-of-way.

The loan to the privately-funded project will be repaid in full including interest.

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http://www.facebook.com/kkorenthal Kevin D. Korenthal

Call me a skeptic, but I need to learn a lot more about this before I am likely to support it.
EVFanatic

Contrary to the last sentence in the article, there is no guarantee that the government loan will paid back with interest. if this HSR line made sense, private investors would readily loan the money.
This is just as bad–and 8X larger–than the Solyndra loan.

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