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BARSTOW • Despite city staff urging the Council to act quickly, its members postponed discussion on a study that would highlight Barstow’s potential losses should a proposed high speed train between Victorville and Las Vegas become a reality.
According to city staff, Barstow could lose $1.3 million a year in revenue if the DesertXpress train project is built. Barstow Finance Director Terri Willoughby based that amount on a traffic impact study, which states the project would result in 20 percent fewer cars on Interstate 15, and the amount lost in sales tax revenue from fewer people shopping at the outlet malls.
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DesertXpress officials expect to be finished with the permitting process and ready for construction by the end of this year, said spokesperson Lee Haney. The project will be partly funded with federal loan dollars, but Haney said the company will pay those loans back. She couldn’t go into more specific detail, however.
The DesertXpress project is one of two high speed trains proposed for the High Desert. The Council has long opposed the project because it does not include a stop in Barstow. Another proposed high speed train project, a magnetic levitating train, will stretch from Anaheim to Las Vegas with a stop in Barstow.
The supplemental environmental impact report can be found on the Federal Railroad Administration’s Web site,http://www.fra.dot.gov/Pages/1703.shtml.
A public hearing will be held Oct. 14 at the Hampton Inn and Suites in Barstow.
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