{"id":19367,"date":"2019-10-03T17:35:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T00:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=19367"},"modified":"2019-10-03T17:35:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T00:35:31","slug":"full-steam-ahead-on-high-speed-rail-project-connecting-the-antelope-valley-with-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=19367","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFULL STEAM AHEAD\u201d ON HIGH SPEED RAIL PROJECT CONNECTING THE ANTELOPE VALLEY WITH LAS VEGAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">LOS ANGELES COUNTY &#8211;\u00a0Supervisor Kathryn Barger announced that a legal settlement with Caltrans, which defers construction for the multi-lane highway portion of the High Desert Corridor, will not impact plans for a high-speed rail already underway to connect Palmdale to Victorville.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThe settlement does not impact or slow down the rail component of the project,\u201d said Barger, who sits on the High Desert Corridor Joint Powers Authority Board (JPA).\u00a0 \u201cWe are moving forward full steam ahead and partnering with Virgin Trains USA to ultimately connect their high-speed train service from Vegas into Palmdale.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The JPA has been examining some potential alternatives to a multi-lane highway to meet near-term traffic demands while still\u00a0attempting to satisfy the purpose and need of the environmental document.\u00a0 Leading up to the JPA\u2019s decision, it became evident that traffic demand projections within the area had eased and such a large highway may not be necessary at this time.\u00a0 The larger highway component has not been eliminated and will be revisited if and when the demand warrants.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES COUNTY &#8211;\u00a0Supervisor Kathryn Barger&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19368,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19367\/revisions\/19368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}