Texas could get a 205-mph bullet train zipping between Houston and Dallas

[Ugo Ogugwa]

 

[The Guru]

Texas politicians:
God doesn't want people to get around without burning fossil fuels. Unamerican. The coloreds shouldn't move that fast.

 

[Midwest]

I’ve lived in Dallas my whole life and they’ve been talking about this since the mid 90s

This train gets brought up once a year, every year.

It’s never going to happen

This is big facts I’m here in Oklahoma and they were talking about this when we at cowboy stadium in Irving back in 95

 

[CashmereThoughts]

Yea bro it’s crazy how Amtrak has to obey the laws of CSX. Long ass freight trains lol

France, China, Japan, got extensive reliable truly high speed rail.

Ain’t no reason we can’t shoot from LA to Vegas or NYC to Montreal at 200mph

 

[Vandelay]

It's a long distance with alot of variable land grades, not to mention the ground is super dry here now.

We're in a permanent drought.

City density isn't the same as Asia either. Like some else said, you get to the city and ain't got no car. You gonna catch a bus when you there?

Only makes sense in dense ass northeast or certain parts of Cali.

 

[the cac mamba]

if they actually started it, texas would get it done a hell of a lot quicker than california

i wonder if there's a point where it's just good business. that's what, 5 major sports teams?

 

[Noriega]

Republicans hate public transit and trains

 

[-DMP-]

Ain’t Tesla in Texas now?

I’d be surprised if they don’t lobby against this like they did in Cali/Vegas

 

[King Static X]

City density isn't the same as Asia either. Like some else said, you get to the city and ain't got no car. You gonna catch a bus when you there?

Only makes sense in dense ass northeast or certain parts of Cali.

Yep, a big reason why HSR hasn't taken off in America is because the US is much more sparsely populated and spread out than many Asian and European countries.

Japan is a narrow, population-dense, and mountainous country. Those are the PRIMARY reasons why HSR works so well in Japan.

 

[T-K-G]

shyt would be ruined by people using it to commit crimes and go places just to act up you'd have to have TSA level checkpoints fukkin around with this country

 

[ORDER_66]

shyt would be ruined by people using it to commit crimes and go places just to act up you'd have to have TSA level checkpoints fukkin around with this country

come on breh...

 

[voiture]

It will never happen. Republicans have made it clear they are against public transportation because it brings the 'undesirables' to their neighborhoods

 

[ORDER_66]

It will never happen. Republicans have made it clear they are against public transportation because it brings the 'undesirables' to their neighborhoods

but arent houston and dallas in the same state???

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

It will never happen. Republicans have made it clear they are against public transportation because it brings the 'undesirables' to their neighborhoods

This isn't just a republican thing....this is a class thing.

Plenty of left voting folks who get all when whoever they deem undesireable start making their way into their neighborhoods.


They need to really just quit with these mega projects, and work on practical rail systems and modernizing current ones in major cities.

 

[Bugzbunny129]

Never happening.

They make too much in toll money for things like this.

Down the street from my house are old train tracks 120 miles away from nyc that used to go directly. A bus ticket today cost like 40 bucks one way rn here. Train would change that but they dont care cause of cars.