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How Southwest Squashed High-Speed Rail in Texas
The Dallas-based airline is widely-considered to be a main driver in the demise of early-1990s plans to bring high-speed rail to Texas. (airlinegeeks.com) Daha Fazlası...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Competition brings lower prices to everyone. However if Texas really wanted it, they should have let the people of Texas vote on it as was done in Florida. Florida voted on it, and it passed and now has high speed rail. It’s slow to come to life, but is making progress, as traffic is consistently getting worse.
We didn't need to vote on it. In Rural Texas as well as our mid-size cities the citizens with moderate taxes knew before this proposal that Texas did not need a high-speed rail system for areas like Flea bag Houston and the Dallas metroplex. IF those areas want a high-speed rail system let them vote in local taxes to fund such a project.
Among many others, this remains one of the biggest mistakes ever made for Texas and the USA in general. AmTrak is in the top 5 of taxpayer subsidized failures, closely behind the USPS that drains billions and somehow still in business. High-speed rail would provide a cheap method of travel in America. It seems lobbyists, "big oil & plane" come out of the woodwork to prevent progress in this technology. They want gas guzzling cars or EVs that can't be charged in the middle of nowhere. Too bad, we could use it!
High-speed rail is one of the worst ideas around. American suburban sprawl makes efficient rail all but impossible. Every government rail project is a failure. Every time the subject is brought up the same people come out of the woodwork to say "Look at Europe and Japan, it works great there" as a justification. We already have an experiment to point to: California, where their effort has been a financial disaster.
Keyword "Every government rail project"... of course I agree with that. The fact that high speed rail "does work" is common sense, how could it "not work"... well, bring in the US government! Instant failure!
"AmTrak is in the top 5 of taxpayer subsidized failures".
That says it all. There's no reason to sink taxpayer money into creating yet-another of the same thing.
That says it all. There's no reason to sink taxpayer money into creating yet-another of the same thing.
It does! It says the gov'mint needs to stay out of private enterprise! It'll take a forward thinking entrepreneur to get it done. Big oil & gas is in 95% of politicians pockets which doesn't help. I've been on most all, Shanghai, Japan, England, Germany and France. The MAGLev in Japan is impressive!