A sprawling suburb 40 miles east of Los Angeles is about to become a major passenger rail hub once Brightline West, a high-speed rail line connecting Las Vegas and Southern California, is complete.
As Sarah Stodola explains in Bloomberg CityLab, Rancho Cucamonga will be the western terminus of Brightline West, where travelers will be able to connect to other Southern California rail lines.
With the state’s more notorious north-south high-speed rail project languishing, Brightline West will likely become the state’s first operational high-speed rail line. “The city believes it can leverage its new high-speed rail station — and the millions of riders that will potentially pass through it — to build the kind of transit-oriented urban core that towns in postwar Southern California have historically struggled to cultivate.”…