Rancho Cucamonga is not Los Angeles. Victorville is not Los Angeles. How the hell are you supposed to get to Rancho Cucamonga without a car? For Las Vegas people going to LA, what the hell are you supposed to do when the train dumps you in the middle of Rancho Cucamonga?
If you want real ridership, public transit in both LA and LV needs to be functional.
Connect it to Union Station and LAX if you want some ridership. On the Las Vegas end make it stop smack in the middle of the strip.
Otherwise this thing is useless.
Also 125mph is not high speed rail. LA-LV in 2 hours + time spent getting to the train station + buffer time to avoid missing the train + long slow car rental line on the other end while 15 people ahead of you each have a chit chat with the one employee dealing with the rentals would be more time than just driving end to end. These people just don't get it.
Try LA-LV in 1 hour and maybe we're talking. But really, fix public transit in both cities first.
If you want real ridership, public transit in both LA and LV needs to be functional.
Connect it to Union Station and LAX if you want some ridership. On the Las Vegas end make it stop smack in the middle of the strip.
Otherwise this thing is useless.
Also 125mph is not high speed rail. LA-LV in 2 hours + time spent getting to the train station + buffer time to avoid missing the train + long slow car rental line on the other end while 15 people ahead of you each have a chit chat with the one employee dealing with the rentals would be more time than just driving end to end. These people just don't get it.
Try LA-LV in 1 hour and maybe we're talking. But really, fix public transit in both cities first.