Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth Mayors Back Bullet Train
30th March 2014
“If successful, Houstonians will have a reliable, private alternative that will help alleviate traffic congestion and drastically reduce travel times,” Houston Mayor Annise Parker said at a press conference at Houston City Hall.
Yeah, if you want to go from the center of Houston to the center of Dallas — or, worse, halfway between Dallas and Ft Worth — when they want you to go rather than when you want to go. Nobody, so far as I know, wants to do that.
Texas Central Railway announced in 2012 its plans to build a 200 mph rail line that would transport passengers between Dallas and Houston within 90 minutes. The company has said it will not require any public subsidies to fund the multibillion-dollar project, which it is developing in partnership with a Japanese firm, Central Japan Railway.
And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.
March 30th, 2014 at 20:40
Why is the Left so enamored with TRAINS?!?!? They don’t ride them. They don’t want the tracks near where they live. They don’t want them powered with fossil fuels. Why do they insist on promoting them??
When the politicians start pushing trains, you know that there is a long list of their supporters that plan to bleed money from this like leeches in an African river.
March 31st, 2014 at 04:18
Because they don’t like FREEDOM, and that’s what cars give us. They want us to go from where they want us to be to where they want us to go, on the schedule they set up, packed together like cattle.
March 31st, 2014 at 06:51
If only they would build it right: as means to transport your car with you in it between distant cities as 4x the highway speed. But they won’t. To cut the drive time from Dallas to Houston to 2 hours and have your car at both ends. Delightful.