2020 Houston-Dallas bullet train (San Antonio, Austin, Waco: car rental, rentals, home)

[H'ton]

Originally Posted by HookTheBrotherUp

I think they should scale back and get a bullet train to Austin instead, I think it would be utilized more than one to Dallas. Imagine, 45 minutes to Austin? I bet many peolple would consider a move and commute if it went to Austin.

Houston and Dallas are metros with 6+ million people and easily the two most dominant metros in the state.... if not the entire region. Austin is a metro with under 1.75 million people. While it is growing quickly it is still minor league compared to Dallas and Houston.

Do the right thing and conned Houston and Dallas first.

[Info Guy]

Why not a Bullet Train for all over the USA?

[dallasboi]

Originally Posted by H'ton

Houston and Dallas are metros with 6+ million people and easily the two most dominant metros in the state.... if not the entire region. Austin is a metro with under 1.75 million people. While it is growing quickly it is still minor league compared to Dallas and Houston.

Do the right thing and conned Houston and Dallas first.

Houstonians want it to go to austin so they can feel like they have a lay-out like Dallas and Ft.Worth....You know the reigon that they bash for having two cities against 1....Its funny to me. They feel like if they could get to austin in 45 minutes it would closely resemble the TRE and Austin could then be added to their Metro because of commute patterns....You guys kill me...I knew yall loved and envy DFW.......yall just hate to admit it.

[DarkWolf]

Originally Posted by Info Guy

Why not a Bullet Train for all over the USA?

Ideal corridors for HSR are between 100-500 miles , anything longer then that would be Intercity Rail which is capped at 125mph. So only select areas the US could handle HSR like Texas between its large cities , the Northeast , Midwest between the large cities , California and Cascadia Corridor where demand is high for HSR. The Only reason Japan is investing in Texas is due to the land and regulations being laxed.

California High Speed Rail Network
Size : 800+ Mi (1,300kms)
Number of lines : 6
Stations : 25+
Projected Ridership : 95 Million a Year or 260,730 Daily
Top Speed : 220mph (350Km/h)
Cost : 68.5 Billion $

Midwest High Speed Rail Network
Size : 700 Mi+ (1,296Kms)
Stations : 76+ (Feeders factored in)
Lines : 6+ with 7 Feeders
Projected Ridership : 43 Million a year or 120,000 daily (Feeders factored in)
Top Speed on Trunk lines : 220mph (350Km/h)
Top Speed on Secondary / Feeder lines : 125mph (201Km/h)
Cost : 70 Billion $

Texas High Speed Rail Network
Size : 680 Mi+ (1,259kms)
Stations : 15
Lines : 5
Projected Ridership : 18.5 Million a year or 55,000 Daily
Top Speed on Trunk lines : 220mph (350Km/h)
Cost : 15-45 Billion $

Cascadia Corridor
Size : 407 Mi (753km)
Stations : 11
Lines : 1
Projected Ridership : 12.8 Million a year or 35,000 Daily
Top Speed on Trunk lines : 170mph (273Km/h)
Cost : 20 Billion $

Northeastern High Speed Network
Size : 1940 Mi+ (3,592kms)
Lines : 4+ with 6 Feeders
Stations : 90+ (Feeders factored in)
Projected Ridership : 127 Million a year or 350,000 daily (Feeders factored in)
Top Speed on Trunk lines : 220mph (350Km/h)
Top Speed on Secondary / Feeder lines : 125mph (201Km/h)
Cost : 120 Billion $

Taken from MWHSR , CAHSR and AMtrak Next gen sources and other sources

[ClarenceBodiker]

Originally Posted by dallasboi

Houstonians want it to go to austin so they can feel like they have a lay-out like Dallas and Ft.Worth....You know the reigon that they bash for having two cities against 1....Its funny to me. They feel like if they could get to austin in 45 minutes it would closely resemble the TRE and Austin could then be added to their Metro because of commute patterns....You guys kill me...I knew yall loved and envy DFW.......yall just hate to admit it.

Sorry, I can't keep silent on this any longer.

What does this have to do with anything? You really are the worst Dallas representative on this site. You really are a troll and you serve no purpose other than trying to stir things up with Houston people. This post is ridiculous and has nothing to do with the conversation of HSR between Houston and Dallas. It's embarrassing how worked up you get about nothing. Maybe you are joking, but nobody can tell. So in the end, you sound like an ignorant dumbass. Get a new hobby.

[Dopo]

Originally Posted by Info Guy

Why not a Bullet Train for all over the USA?

There's something called "Being realistic" which involves thinking of a plan that actually has a good chance of being done and successful.

[annie_himself]

Originally Posted by ClarenceBodiker

Sorry, I can't keep silent on this any longer.

What does this have to do with anything? You really are the worst Dallas representative on this site. You really are a troll and you serve no purpose other than trying to stir things up with Houston people. This post is ridiculous and has nothing to do with the conversation of HSR between Houston and Dallas. It's embarrassing how worked up you get about nothing. Maybe you are joking, but nobody can tell. So in the end, you sound like an ignorant dumbass. Get a new hobby.

I was thinking the same.
Houston-Austin would be a great short route and UT students would fill it up during spring and fall. It should just be a triangle rail loop.

[HtownLove]

Originally Posted by dallasboi

Houstonians want it to go to austin so they can feel like they have a lay-out like Dallas and Ft.Worth....You know the reigon that they bash for having two cities against 1....Its funny to me. They feel like if they could get to austin in 45 minutes it would closely resemble the TRE and Austin could then be added to their Metro because of commute patterns....You guys kill me...I knew yall loved and envy DFW.......yall just hate to admit it.

Layout like DFW???

LMAO. Give it up sweetypie. Austin is just way too far.

lol, that did give me a good laugh though. Thanks I needed that.

Originally Posted by annie_himself

I was thinking the same.
Houston-Austin would be a great short route and UT students would fill it up during spring and fall. It should just be a triangle rail loop.

I agree. a triangle route would be good.

But the Dallas route should stop in Houston then go on to Galveston
Then A Dallas to Corpus route would be good with stops in SA and Austin. Then a Route from Austin to Houston with a Stop in BCS.

[KerrTown]

Originally Posted by HookTheBrotherUp

I think they should scale back and get a bullet train to Austin instead, I think it would be utilized more than one to Dallas. Imagine, 45 minutes to Austin? I bet many peolple would consider a move and commute if it went to Austin.

Why Austin? It's way too close to Houston to be drivable and make the train travel slower.

San Antonio is a better choice because it's not too far (DFW) or too close (Austin) for a test run. Houston-San Antonio is the most traveled route because of weekend getaways to Sea World, Fiesta Texas, and the Alamo/Riverwalk.

[Dopo]

Originally Posted by DiverTodd62

All of which one pays voluntarily.

Of course,
because I'm sure somewhere there's somebody that actually took the other option of walking 20 miles to work.