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Getting bullet train, Gold Line on track
David Allen, Staff Writer
Created: 11/07/2009 06:06:59 AM PST
HIGH-SPEED RAIL may one day travel through the Inland Valley, although the process itself is moving at low speed.
By late 2012, a precise route with station locations may be decided upon, with environmental review wrapping up the next year. Construction from L.A. to San Diego could begin in 2015 and end in 2020, with the route to San Francisco done by 2025.
So I wouldn't pack my bags and head down to one of those undecided stations just yet. Still, an 800-mile bullet train linking Northern and Southern California is a neat idea, one voters backed with nearly $10 billion in bonds in 2008.
A session last week in an obscure corner of Ontario International Airport was held to show off various maps and renderings and solicit opinion.
(If you could find the meeting, held off of Avion Drive, you were officially a public transit nerd. They should have given out certificates at the door.)
The rail route is expected to jog east from L.A. to Ontario, and possibly San Bernardino, before heading south toward San Diego.
Where would the local stations be? ONT is almost certain to get one. A San Gabriel Valley station could be built in El Monte, West Covina, Industry, Cal Poly Pomona or downtown Pomona, according to a map display.
If Pomona's got two chances out of five, that's not bad.
But I think the 25 mph Gold Line to Claremont will arrive faster than high-speed rail.
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