Privately funded Texas bullet train full speed ahead-Californias publicly funded bullet train in real trouble
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We moved to Atlanta from Toronto. Toronto's public transit system is used by everyone -- just like NYC.
In the Atlanta area -- the burbs think only poor people take a bus/train. You can't get them out of that mentality.
It's a southern thing.
It's an American thing. Americans love their cars. I live part of the year in the southwest. It is assumed that if someone takes a bus its because they do not have a car otherwise why take a bus or light rail?
It's an American thing. Americans love their cars. I live part of the year in the southwest. It is assumed that if someone takes a bus its because they do not have a car otherwise why take a bus or light rail?
American mass transit out of highly dense cities is not used by all classes like in europe and asia. The bus station is actually sometime dregs but in a sort of college town like Austin, buses are used by everyone. College kids usually dont have cars
I will say this , this is no bus or thug or homeless magnet
The light rail systems in both Dallas and Houston would begin to be used to their maximum potential with this, but Houston only if it manages to extend METRORail from where it goes, to where this line will stop (it sounds like Northwest Mall).
If the University and Uptown lines had been built as planned, it would only be a matter of extending the Uptown line.
The light rail systems in both Dallas and Houston would begin to be used to their maximum potential with this, but Houston only if it manages to extend METRORail from where it goes, to where this line will stop (it sounds like Northwest Mall).
If the University and Uptown lines had been built as planned, it would only be a matter of extending the Uptown line.
Yes it should connect with rail to downtown, both airports and all the Houston centers like museum theater and districts and mc anderson. It will a huge economic boom for the cedars area in Dallas and Houston and hopefully HSR will extend to the whole Texas Triangle soon with Austin. You cant keep growing like texas has and expect growth to continue without major problems in transportation.
The Texas triangle will come in to be seen as the major region that it really is, Dallas, Houston, and Austin wont always have to compete , they will be increasingly an interconnected region
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Originally Posted by mkpunk
No we have Amtrak which is ridiculed to no end...
Amtrak was built to fail but still makes money in northeast corridor. Americans are sick of traffic jams, the continually declining quality of air travel. Something like this is 1,000 better than driving or flying, driving is convenient but it gets worse every year in the Texas triangle. Toll roads like you see in DC and the northeast are always a sign of decay. Flying is the pits
Even a national high speed rail network won't replace flying, but the short hops will go to the wayside. There really is no reason to have to fly from Houston to Dallas. Now, Houston to NYC might be another matter, even if this were linked up with a national network that made it possible. Some would do it.
If we go to a per-mile gas tax, watch the economics of sprawl change instantly.
Sprawl will be the economic death of Texas. It contributed to the huge disaster of harvey. A state this big needs rail
Let state taxpayers , instead of federal taxpayers, be on the hook for disaster recovery like harvey and you will see zoning, talks about rail, and less sprawl amplify quickly
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