High speed rail between Dallas and Houston coming!!!

[Hiphoplives4eva]

10 Billion is alot of money though...

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

If they get this done before Cali

Cali is broke as shyt. They are too busy legislating the size of chicken coops than working on real ways to fight global warming, like mass transit and downsizing. Liberal fantasy land will never do this in a million years, unless they raise taxes...

 

[Calmye]

Cali is broke as shyt. They are too busy legislating the size of chicken coops than working on real ways to fight global warming, like mass transit and downsizing. Liberal fantasy land will never do this in a million years, unless they raise taxes...

our budget is at a surplus because Jerry Brown raised the taxes to record numbers already. The problem is liberals don't know how to build shyt. The state politics is laughable. They rather work on a plastic bag ban and give illegal immigrants driver licenses rather then build something from scratch and actually change the state for the better.
Thats why everyone os moving out this bytch. Other then weather Cali fukking sucks

 

[Canada Goose]

lets see what southwest airlines has to say about this.

lol, when they can they do about it? They don't have the power to stop this.

 

[BrothaZay]

Been teling nikkas Texas is the place to be, specially DFW.

 

[Darts]

Obama administration was handing out HSR money like candy a few years back and was getting shytted on and turned down by repubs calling the idea a pipe dream, now here they are. Typical, but progress is progress I guess.

 

[Poitier]

Obama administration was handing out HSR money like candy a few years back and was getting shytted on and turned down by repubs calling the idea a pipe dream, now here they are. Typical, but progress is progress I guess.

Georgia rejected it

 

[Darts]

Georgia rejected it

Yeah and the dumbass gov in Florida too which even made a lot of repubs and business folks mad.

The Tea Party era has really stifled progress in America than most people fully appreciate.

 

[dtownreppin214]

lol, when they can they do about it? They don't have the power to stop this.

In 1991 the Texas High Speed Rail Authority awarded a 50-year high-speed rail franchise to the Texas TGV Corporation — a consortium of Morrison Knudsen (USA), Bombardier (Canada), Alstom (France/UK), Crédit Lyonnais (France), Banque IndoSuez (France), Merrill Lynch (USA), and others. Texas TGV won the franchise after more than two years of litigation instigated by a rival consortium backing German ICE technology.

The plan was to connect the "Texas Triangle" (Houston − Dallas/Fort Worth − San Antonio) with a privately financed high-speed train system which would quickly take passengers from one city to the next at prices designed to compete with or beat other transport options. This was the same model Southwest Airlines used 20 years earlier to break into the Texas market where it served the same three cities.


The proposed south central Corridor does not include the Dallas-Houston segment.
Funding for the project was to come entirely from private sources, since Texas did not allow the use of public money. The original estimated cost was $5.6 billion, but the task of securing the necessary private funds proved extremely difficult.

Southwest Airlines, with the help of lobbyists, created legal barriers to prohibit the consortium from moving forward and the entire project was eventually scuttled in 1994, when the State of Texas withdrew the franchise.[60] Several hotel chains like Days Inn, Best Western, and La Quinta Inn, as well as fast food establishments like McDonalds and Burger King lobbied against the plan.[60] Primarily because a lot of their locations were located along the Interstate and in several highway dependent rural towns.

 

[radio rahiem]

this needs to happen

 

[Canada Goose]

In 1991 the Texas High Speed Rail Authority awarded a 50-year high-speed rail franchise to the Texas TGV Corporation — a consortium of Morrison Knudsen (USA), Bombardier (Canada), Alstom (France/UK), Crédit Lyonnais (France), Banque IndoSuez (France), Merrill Lynch (USA), and others. Texas TGV won the franchise after more than two years of litigation instigated by a rival consortium backing German ICE technology.

The plan was to connect the "Texas Triangle" (Houston − Dallas/Fort Worth − San Antonio) with a privately financed high-speed train system which would quickly take passengers from one city to the next at prices designed to compete with or beat other transport options. This was the same model Southwest Airlines used 20 years earlier to break into the Texas market where it served the same three cities.


The proposed south central Corridor does not include the Dallas-Houston segment.
Funding for the project was to come entirely from private sources, since Texas did not allow the use of public money. The original estimated cost was $5.6 billion, but the task of securing the necessary private funds proved extremely difficult.

Southwest Airlines, with the help of lobbyists, created legal barriers to prohibit the consortium from moving forward and the entire project was eventually scuttled in 1994, when the State of Texas withdrew the franchise.[60] Several hotel chains like Days Inn, Best Western, and La Quinta Inn, as well as fast food establishments like McDonalds and Burger King lobbied against the plan.[60] Primarily because a lot of their locations were located along the Interstate and in several highway dependent rural towns.

I fellow these kinds of the developments and this is the first time I ever heard of Airlines cockblocking Railroads from improvement. Its crazy as Japan Airlines and the HSR seem to co exist just fine.

Same goes for Amtrak and Airlines in the Northeast.


I heard of Freight railroads doing it to Amtrak but never the airlines.


Also at rural towns being dependent on interstate traffic, I always wondered that.

 

[rantanamo]

Southwest won't do anything this time because the Wright Amendment has ended. They are focusing on out of state and even short international routes. At the same time, they are drastically reducing many of their Texas to Texas destinations, including Dallas to Houston over the next few years. You also have some large landowners looking to cash in on this. Specifically look for a site just south of I-30 near downtown Dallas that was supposed to be the site of Cowboys stadium that wants to be the site of a large transportation hub that would connect DART rail and buses, TRE, AMTRAK , Greyhound and the high speed rail. The Hunts(Think, the real Dallas oil dynasty) are looking to lure the station to just south of Union Station to the oil Reunion Arena and extra Convention Center parking site. The rail company themselves seem to like the former Cowboys site as well as a site at Loop 12 and I-45. Yes, I said south Dallas. As soon as that golf course started going in, I started saying, goodbye South Dallas. if the South Dallas site is picked, lookout for a big development. Goodbye black South Dallas. A lot of developers are looking at blowing everything between 175 and essentially Lancaster Rd and starting from scratch. The golf course is the start.

Eminent Domain can be granted to private companies by the state of Texas, but usually under a utility or transportation commission. No different than the conglomerate formed by Cintra for the current LBJ construction.

 

[Poitier]

Goodbye black South Dallas.

Basically. nikkas need to take over their governments.

 

[SteelCitySoldier]

This shyt is just like MARC in the DMV. shyt can you get you from Bmore to Virginia in less than an hour. Anyone in Texas is going to love it

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

Been teling nikkas Texas is the place to be, specially DFW.

The only thing i fear from this train is you and other Dallasonians infesting our cities and neighborhoods.