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The line from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, Brightline West, is a privately-run project.

Kelly stressed that the project will affect states beyond California with a goal to establish a southwest corridor that would include Arizona and New Mexico, and reiterated plans to connect to the privately owned Brightline West project, that would connect Southern California to Las Vegas.

Last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom and transportation officials tied the state’s high-speed-rail line with the privately owned Brightline West train, which would connect Los Angeles to Las Vegas, and announced the two may someday connect.

Duffy said Thursday that Brightline could be “worthy of investment.”

Gov. Gavin Newsom and transportation officials said at a news conference in Kern County that the line could someday connect to a proposed 54-mile corridor from Palmdale to Victor Valley that linked to Brightline West’s privately owned high-speed train to Nevada.