{"id":3741,"date":"2010-06-07T11:55:28","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T19:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=3741"},"modified":"2021-10-20T06:48:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T14:48:04","slug":"jane-stop-this-crazy-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/jane-stop-this-crazy-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Jane, stop this crazy thing!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to a bit of last-minute perfidy by Sen. Harry Reid<\/strong> (D-NV), it looks as though Nevadans — and, mark my words, taxpayers — will eventually be stuck with Sig Rogich<\/strong>‘s Choo-Choo to Nowhere, the train that boards in Vegas and dumps you in … Victorville<\/strong>. The list of competing proposals has now swelled to four, the latest entrant being Desert Lightning<\/strong>, a project that’s long on ideas but short on dollars<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The basic concept is for a dedicated, Y-shaped line that begins (or terminates, if you prefer) in Los Angeles<\/strong>. Near the intersection of the California<\/strong>, Nevada<\/strong> and Arizona<\/strong> borders, a spur line would branch northward to Las Vegas<\/strong>, while the main route would continue into Phoenix<\/strong>. Unfortunately for Desert Lightning, it needs several million dollars in federal seed money and the timing could not be worse<\/a>. Both the Z- and X-Train<\/strong> proposals have the theoretical advantage of using preexisting infrastructure and conventional trains … but the X-Train’s viability appears to have been predicated upon onboard gambling (an idea now quashed) and Union Pacific<\/strong> has given neither project priority status on its tracks — an absolute must-have. Desert Lightning’s is the most intriguing concept presented to date but its seems it would take a miracle to finance it. Thus we’re liable to get stuck with Sig’s white elephant … and Victorville’s not particularly nice this time of year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to a bit of last-minute perfidy by Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), it looks as though Nevadans — and, mark my words, taxpayers — will eventually be stuck with Sig Rogich‘s Choo-Choo to Nowhere, the train that boards in Vegas … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[109,34,28,14,52,8,100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30201,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741\/revisions\/30201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}