President Joe Biden officially announced $3 billion in federal funding for Brightline West’s $12 billion high-speed rail system today in Las Vegas.
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company purchased a plot near Chinatown where a future Vegas Loop station is planned.
It is expected that President Joe Biden will make an official announcement about the grant award Friday in Las Vegas.
“It makes a bunch of sense,” LVCVA president and CEO Steve Hill said. “If you go out there now, traffic is better than it was before we built all this and that bridge is a big part of that.”
The Nevada Taxicab Authority board approved the special temporary surcharges for the day surrounding next month’s Las Vegas Grand Prix.
With a large portion of the Strip scheduled to shut down for several hours a night during race week, officials are fine tuning ways to get resort workers to and from work.
A number of downtown Las Vegas businesses are at the center of a roughly $10 million infrastructure project that began in April and is expected to finish by spring 2024.
Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., is the latest Nevada politician to urge federal leaders to earmark nearly $4B in grants for the Las Vegas-to-Los Angeles high-speed rail project.
The federal grant could provide up to $3.75 billion to establish Brightline West’s passenger rail service.
The Boring Company’s next Vegas Loop station is expected to be operational next year.