First Bullet Train Meeting Focuses on Station Locations
DALLAS — The first public meeting on a private company’s plan to build a bullet train between Houston and Dallas drew unanimous support for the multibillion-dollar project, but also repeated warnings from residents and local officials that the locations of the stations are vital.
More than 100 people were in attendance on Tuesday for the first of six public meetings being held jointly by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) and the Texas Department of Transportation on Texas Central Railway’s plan. The FRA is leading a federally required environmental impact study of the proposed project, which aims to connect Dallas ...
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Jon Conners via Texas Tribune on Facebook
And the trolls will appear shortly
Denise Turley via Texas Tribune on Facebook
watch out for the wild hogs!
Bill Blackmon via Texas Tribune on Facebook
this ain't gonna go with our Sacred Lone Star Lifestyle too damn good :)
Greg Pulte via Texas Tribune on Facebook
how about the much more travelled Dallas San Antonio route?
John Barton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
As long as tax payer money is not used and property rights upheld there's nothing wrong with the concept, except all the people from Dallas coming to Houston.
Bryan LeMeilleur via Texas Tribune on Facebook
SA-Dallas-Houston. Make a triangle. Don't waste years seeing if it will impact the Pigeon Toed Sloth Monkey. Make prisoners do the hard labor on chain gangs. Let private enterprises run it; government involvement to a minimum.
Meredith Bossin via Texas Tribune on Facebook
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Cody N Ailene via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Will it be privately funded? I would much rather see a Skytran system put in.
Anthony Petrosino via Texas Tribune on Facebook
State and federal government builds and subsides highways and airports...what is the rationale for insisting that bullet train routes come from private funding exclusively?
Mike Openshaw via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Kindly give a single example of a bullet train anywhere in the world NOT built with massive taxpayer subsidy- including major subsidy of every passenger mile.
Anthony Petrosino via Texas Tribune on Facebook
likewise, name an airport or a public highway not built with government subsidies in one form or another
Chuck Wright via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Keep govt money to a minimum . ..I'm fine with it. . . .too many of us are smart enough to see the failures of this type of program in Cali and elsewhere to be duped by another boon doggle. . .
Melissa Brazell Geralds via Texas Tribune on Facebook
What about all the land thats already been bought for the TTC?
Darel Smith via Texas Tribune on Facebook
San Antonio to St. Paul, Y'all think so small.
Jim Vance
The intrinsic way that TCR will make this work financially involves its investors' acquisition (very early at the lowest prices before outsiders know much) of land or development rights in the areas adjacent and immediately nearby the station locations, so they gain significant and substantial downstream enhanced-value syndication profit at every stage of the HSR line's approval, construction, eventual operation and well beyond.
Bill Blackmon via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Do it the Texas Way - let the private sector in Spain build the Toll Railways - Perry and Abbott will be ever so grateful and you get to pay for it FOREVER!
James Weisinger via Texas Tribune on Facebook
dallas to san antonio should be considered first because that corridor has more traffic
audrey fisher
I'd love to see San Antonio included - and the trolls are here - with their typical inane comments. Was a estimated cost discussed.
Andrew Dobbs via Texas Tribune on Facebook
There was a great panel on this at Texas Tribune Fest. If they can come up with the money and they get buy in from landowners along the route this could be a huge opportunity for Texas. Looking forward to it!
Christine Turpin via Texas Tribune on Facebook
No one seems to be asking about electrical usage impact on our system grid, and subsidies on that side. I'd like to no more on this side.