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Old 05-29-2011, 08:39 PM
 
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The Regional Transportation Council took the first step Thursday toward a new model in North Texas for how commuter rail could be financed and built.
The 43-member council voted unanimously to give itself the lead role in finding private firms to partner with local transit agencies to build - and pay for - what could be a 62-mile long Cotton Belt commuter rail line from Fort Worth to McKinney.
Such a public-private partnership for rail would be the first in Texas, and one of the very few in America.


What are your thoughts on the Fort Worth-McKinney rail line?

Planned Fort Worth-McKinney rail line to seek private partner | Dallas-Fort Worth Communities - News for Dallas, Texas - The Dallas Morning News
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Old 06-16-2011, 11:15 AM
 
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I would love that if it comes to fruition...I live in McKinney and would enjoy being able to take a train out to Ft Worth on the weekends. But there is already a train in Grapevine that goes to Ft Worth - would the McKinney one connect to that rail line? Also, I wonder how much demand there would be for people to travel back and forth between the two cities? I would think it would be mostly for recreational travel on the weekends, not really high demand for daily connection between the two. But sounds like it would be a nice addition to the public transportation in the area. Would love to hear more about it...
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Old 06-17-2011, 10:14 PM
 
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I would love that if it comes to fruition...I live in McKinney and would enjoy being able to take a train out to Ft Worth on the weekends. But there is already a train in Grapevine that goes to Ft Worth - would the McKinney one connect to that rail line? Also, I wonder how much demand there would be for people to travel back and forth between the two cities? I would think it would be mostly for recreational travel on the weekends, not really high demand for daily connection between the two. But sounds like it would be a nice addition to the public transportation in the area. Would love to hear more about it...
Well the train from Grapevine to Fort Worth is the Tarantula Train :

https://www.grapevinetexasusa.com/Th...FcpR2godRniqgg


That's a vintage train ride and it is designed to bring back the feel of years gone past. That includes the travel times of the olden days...you know...back when scientists and doctors were convinced that humans would die at speeds above 50 MPH. That's where the name for the train line comes from; tarantulas are many things, but fast isn't one of them.

It sounds like the Fort Worth McKinney line will be more of a Commuter rail, but who commutes from McKinney to Fort Worth and vice versa?
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Old 06-19-2011, 07:47 PM
 
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the Tarantula runs on the old Cotton Belt line that DART bought--
Tarrant county tried to get group of towns together to fund a tax to work toward using that rail bed for commuter line from DFW airport into Stockyards were the Tarantual goes now then downtown FTW and then south to TCU area
but many of the necessary towns would not agree to the tax and DART would not give a long term lease to the that group

the success of that rail venture depends so much on how the ownership of the line is designed and how responsive the people who actually control the decision making/fee-setting authority are to the will of the people

this is the same system that is controlling the toll road system in TX now to certain extent--
privaate parties using roads that were paid for with tax payers money/bonds--to build their own toll lanes now partially with money from Federal grants and local bonds and take over control--
that board is totally non-responsive to TX voters since we have NO SAY in the tolls and other actions the board can vote for
and if you don't own significant amount of stock in that privately held company then you don't have a voice anyway
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