RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. — Brightline West aims to connect Las Vegas and Southern California with high-speed rail.
But the planned terminal is not in Los Angeles, where you might expect, but 40 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.
“We’ve got the best name. Who doesn’t want to say Rancho Cucamonga?,” asks Elisa Cox, assistant city manager for this town of about 170,000 near the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California’s Inland Empire…