Supporters want Texas high-speed rail by 2020

Would connect “Texas Triangle”

Steve Hawley, Feb 02, 09.

High-speed rail proponents hope to use a public-private partnership to build a high-speed system in the “Texas Triangle” megaregion by 2020, according to the Houston Chronicle. A similar attempt failed 15 years ago, but members of the Texas High Speed Rail and Transportation Corporation are reaching out to former opponents and believe the current effort will succeed. Several lawmakers have expressed support for the proposal, and Gov. Rick Perry believes that high-speed rail is a possibility as Texas cities become denser and more populated. The 200 mph trains would connect Austin, Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio and would run to airports, at a projected cost of $12 billion to $18 billion.

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Your darn right we won. We do not agree with hateful progressives who want to see people dead who do not agree with their radical agenda, and we never will.

I do not see it happening here in Texas and I do not see Perry pushing it. Special interest groups are pushing it only because Texas is huge and they will make money while raping tax payers for something we dont want. Today’s economic climate make it not very prudent, and Perry is smart enough to know that. Besides the fact that Texas based Southwest Airlines has alot of clout and shot down the last attempt along with American Airlines. Good for them. No one in their right mind is going to use high speed rail, except maybe illegals.

Have we learned nothing from the failure that was Amtrak?

PS The roads going between cities like Houston/Austin/DFW/San Antonio are NOT congested. I do not know what kind of funny cigarettes you progressives are smoking, but you are Lying liars who are full of .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Posted on Feb 22, 11 at 3:46 am

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