President Joe Biden stopped inward Las Vegas Friday where he touted $3B inward federal help for a high-speed rail line 'tween the metropolis and California.
The 218-mile rail in business line testament extend between Las Vegas and Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. That city is some 40 miles due east of downtown Los Angeles. Once complete, the route is expected to pack more than 11M passengers each year.
Planning for the route has been inwards talks for many years. It’s been proposed since Sagebrush State Sen. Harry Reid, D, was inwards office. But after decades of waiting, Biden promised the crowd of unionized carpenters that the high-speed rail in 'tween Vegas and L.A. was finally going to happen.
Harry Reid, I told you 35 years ago to get this sucker done,” Biden said patch looking for upward toward the heaven to recall the late Senator. “We’re getting it done.”
Biden recalled how getting stuck inward highway traffic betwixt Los Angeles and Las Vegas is a tangible “pain inwards the neck.” The motor can buoy accept upward to 7 hours. But formerly the inveigh product line is operating, the journey will accept well-nigh 2 hours at speeds upwards to 186 miles an hour.
The contrive agency in that location will follow more visitors to Las Vegas. That testament leading to to a greater extent jobs and money for the region, Biden told the crowd.
The prepare is scheduled to live operational before the 2028 Olympics inward Los Angeles. That will spend a penny it easier for crowds to jaunt to Las Vegas.
Remembering Victims
During his visit, Biden met with UNLV administrators and students followers this week’s deadly shooting of iii professors at the UNLV campus. Biden honored the two campus constabulary officers who stab the assailant deadened before more victims could follow injured or killed.
Those killed included Cha Jan “Jerry” Chang, 64, of Henderson, Nev., Patricia Navarro Velez, 39, of Las Vegas, and Naoko Takemaru, 69, of Las Vegas.
Biden also called for more lawmaking to prohibit gun violence.
The Second Amendment didn’t say you could possess any gun — you could have any weapon,” Biden said in an appearance. “You couldn’t own a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed.”
Biden also honored two Sagebrush State troopers, Sgt. Michael Abbate and Trooper Alberto Felix, who were killed of late on I-15 after they were ploughed into past an allegedly inebriated tip-and-run driver.
While inwards Las Vegas, Biden also took some swipes at former President Donald Trump, who is now the favourite among Republicans to oppose Biden inward the 2024 presidential election.