High-Speed LA-Las Vegas Rail Wins $600m Bond Allocation

[John Ashworth]

High-Speed LA-To-Las Vegas Virgin Train Wins $600 Million California Bond Allocation

Amid the broad economic slowdown triggered by the coronavirus, California has approved a $600 million private activity bond allocation for construction of the $5 billion Virgin Trains-Brightline railway that within four years could be whisking passengers from Las Vegas to a (distant) Los Angeles suburb at speeds of up to 200 miles an hour...