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RTC to study rail line to Ivanpah

Friday, Aug. 13, 2004 | 11:01 a.m.

The Regional Transportation Commission on Thursday approved a plan to set aside more than $180,000 to study a proposed rail line between Las Vegas to a possible airport in Ivanpah.

The plan, approved at the RTC's monthly meeting Thursday, would be part of a proposed rail line connecting North Las Vegas, downtown Las Vegas and Henderson. It would extend that line from the southern part of the Las Vegas Valley and could possibly end up as far south as the new airport near Jean, roughly 30 miles south of Las Vegas, according to the RTC contract.

Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, an international transportation consulting firm, will be hired to do the study.

Of the $180,878 the RTC approved for the study, roughly $144,000 will be reimbursed through federal grants, according to the contract.

The second airport, which county planners say will be needed within the next 10 years, is expected to be built in a dry lake bed in the now-rural Ivanpah area.

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