{"id":591,"date":"2011-10-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/bullet-train-connecting-vegas-and-los-angeles-approved\/"},"modified":"2018-11-19T14:00:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T14:00:13","slug":"bullet-train-connecting-vegas-and-los-angeles-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/bullet-train-connecting-vegas-and-los-angeles-approved\/","title":{"rendered":"Bullet Train Connecting Vegas and Los Angeles Approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Bullet Train Connecting Vegas and Los Angeles Approved, Flickr: Ken Lund\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2011\/10\/TheI-15.jpg\" alt=\"Bullet Train Connecting Vegas and Los Angeles Approved, Flickr: Ken Lund\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>The I-15<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Whether you&#8217;ve got <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/flights\/cheap-flights-to-las-vegas-las-nevada\">flights to Las Vegas<\/a><\/strong> or flights to Southern California, it won&#8217;t matter because there is going to be a high-speed 190-mile bullet train connecting the two.<\/p>\n<p>The train was approved by the Federal Surface Transportation Board on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The electric trains will connect <strong><a href=\"\/tag\/las%20vegas\/default\">Las Vegas<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"\/tag\/los%20angeles\/default\">Los Angeles<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <strong>Central Valley Business Times<\/strong> report, hopes for the bullet train are to reduce air pollution, fuel consumption and congestion along the I-15.<\/p>\n<p>Construction is expected to begin in 2012 with completion happening at the end of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like &#8216;what happens in Vegas&#8217; may get its start in Southern <strong>California<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kenlund\/2157380408\/sizes\/m\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ken Lund <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The I-15 &nbsp; Whether you&#8217;ve got flights to Las Vegas or flights to Southern California, it won&#8217;t matter because there is going to be a high-speed 190-mile bullet train connecting the two. The train was approved by the Federal Surface Transportation Board on Wednesday. The electric trains will connect Las Vegas and Los Angeles. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97201544,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/97201544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}