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Treasury Secretary Pete Buttigieg joined state and federal officers Monday to interrupt floor on a $12 billion high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles suburb Rancho Cucamonga. Brightline, the corporate constructing the railway, stated the electric-powered trains will journey at greater than 186 mph and shuttle passengers by means of the Mojave Desert in 2 hours 10 minutes, about half the time of driving on regularly gridlocked I-15.
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