--- title: Brightline: 2024 TIME100 Most Influential Companies description: Brightline: 2024 TIME100 Most Influential Companies canonical: https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2024/6980450/brightline/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-05-30T11:30:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-31T05:12:35.778Z article:section: Business og:title: TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2024: Brightline og:description: Find out why Brightline is on the list og:url: https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2024/6980450/brightline/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt480850f0a2861922/698a572e457a528a3ad6a56c/time100-companies-brightline-2024.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2024: Brightline og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2024: Brightline twitter:description: Find out why Brightline is on the list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt480850f0a2861922/698a572e457a528a3ad6a56c/time100-companies-brightline-2024.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- May 30, 2024 # Brightline by [Jared Lindzon](https://time.com/author/jared-lindzon/) ## Jared Lindzon Jared Lindzon is the co-author of "Do More in Four: Why It’s Time for a Shorter Workweek"  Brightline trains leave a station Brightline trains leave a stationCourtesy of Brightline The U.S. has long been a laggard when it comes to high-speed passenger rail. Against the odds, Brightline is betting that fast trains traveling between Miami and Orlando, and Los Angeles and Las Vegas, can find plenty of passengers. In September, the country’s only private passenger-rail company launched service between the two cities in Florida, with a top speed of 130 m.p.h.. “Brightline West,” which broke ground in April, will be faster. The $12 billion project, which the company says will be completed in time for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, promises to carry passengers at top speeds of 200 m.p.h. from an L.A. suburb to Las Vegas in just over two hours. The all-electric effort marks “the beginning of the construction of the first true high-speed train in America,” Brightline founder Wes Edens says. By leaning on existing transportation infrastructure—Brightline West will run almost entirely on Interstate 15’s median strip—the company aims to keep the ambitious intercity project on track. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2024/6980450/brightline/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2024/6980450/brightline/"},"headline":"Brightline","datePublished":"2024-05-30T11:30:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T05:12:35.778Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2024/6980450/brightline/","keywords":["Companies","Magazine","Special Project","sponsorshipblock","Accolades"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt480850f0a2861922/698a572e457a528a3ad6a56c/time100-companies-brightline-2024.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jared Lindzon","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/jared-lindzon/"}],"creator":"Jared Lindzon","articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt480850f0a2861922/698a572e457a528a3ad6a56c/time100-companies-brightline-2024.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/companies/","name":"Companies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2024/6980450/brightline/","name":"Brightline"}}]}] ```