Expanding & developing excellent passenger rail services is a must!!! Thank you all for keeping these concepts alive and pushing politicians to support investments for rail expansion, development and investments!
Maybe when Amtrak stops SCREWING Texas. When Amtrak provides some trains that go to the places Texas want to ride trains to, maybe Texas will invest more... But at the present time Amtrak has NO plans to increase the Sunset Limited to a daily service. At this time Amtrak has NO plans to reinstate the former Burlington Zephyr route from Houston to Denver. At this time Amtrak has NO plans to reinstate the daily train from Houston to Dallas... Not too many Texans want to ride a train to Chicago, the daily service Amtrak provides presently... DUH! Amtrak needs to pull its head out of its ass...
@@ronclark9724 How is Amtrak going to do that if Congress doesn't allocate funding? How is Congress going to allocate funding when REPUBLICANS keep trying to cut their budget? Why are TEXANS keep voting for Republicans when their entire modus operandi is "Reaganomics," cutting government spending? Looks like there are some mirrors into which people need to look.
Sorry but the United States of America can put a man on the moon and yet can't achieve highspeed bullet train technology which is also fully electric. The American people are to filled with stupidity, blindness, ignorance and negativity to advance in these modern marvels of transportation. And the United States government??? Never.. their government are made up of people who are idiots. Highspeed bullet technology is something the mighty United States of America should of had decades ago. Highspeed bullet trains and maglev super train technology, the new american dream..,.,
Unless Texas Central attracts Brightline-ish private investment, I don't foresee progress until Texas politicians commit at least 30% of funds to HSR projects.
Texas will provide some infrastructure road and bridge funds for highway overpasses and underpasses, but I doubt whether Texas would subsidize HSR more than what they do presently with Amtrak's Heartland Flyer. Texas Central chose the most economical route along mostly an electric transmission line corridor in the rural area, and along the Dallas Trinity River levee and Houston US-290 corridor adjacent to a freight railroad line. The HSR station in Dallas will be south of I-30 near the convention center downtown, and in Houston at a former mall near the I-610 and US-290 interchange a few miles from downtown. Texas Central did NOT choose the MOST expensive route through Central Valley downtowns alongside US-99. It isn't Texas' fault the former passenger railroads terminated their services when the USPS cancelled their mail contracts back during the 1960s. Many of the very nice stations were demolished when the former passenger railroads terminated their services to avoid paying property taxes. It isn't Texas' fault Amtrak refuses to provide daily Sunset Limited services east or west. It isn't Texas' fault Amtrak terminated the daily Houston to Dallas train which connected to the Texas Eagle. If anything, the second largest populated state has been SCREWED by Amtrak, up to a CRIMINAL status. Texas desires a long distance train from Houston thru Dallas thru Amarillo to Colorado Springs and Denver, the former route of Burlington's Texas Zephyr. Not only would it serve Texas with a more direct route to Colorado and possibly to the Pacific Northwest, this route would serve the south with the same route without having to go out of the way to Chicago. And yes I also advocate the former Desert Wind (Las Vegas) and Pioneer (Boise) trains return for Amtrak to provide better services in the West.
Expanding & developing excellent passenger rail services is a must!!! Thank you all for keeping these concepts alive and pushing politicians to support investments for rail expansion, development and investments!
When will Texans realize that putting some people in trains will mean they wait less in traffic?
They will NEVER realize that.
Maybe when Amtrak stops SCREWING Texas. When Amtrak provides some trains that go to the places Texas want to ride trains to, maybe Texas will invest more... But at the present time Amtrak has NO plans to increase the Sunset Limited to a daily service. At this time Amtrak has NO plans to reinstate the former Burlington Zephyr route from Houston to Denver. At this time Amtrak has NO plans to reinstate the daily train from Houston to Dallas... Not too many Texans want to ride a train to Chicago, the daily service Amtrak provides presently... DUH! Amtrak needs to pull its head out of its ass...
@@ronclark9724 How is Amtrak going to do that if Congress doesn't allocate funding? How is Congress going to allocate funding when REPUBLICANS keep trying to cut their budget? Why are TEXANS keep voting for Republicans when their entire modus operandi is "Reaganomics," cutting government spending? Looks like there are some mirrors into which people need to look.
@@ronclark9724 Actually Amtrak does have plans to make Sunset Limited daily. They received Corridor ID funds to do so last year.
Sorry but the United States of America can put a man on the moon and yet can't achieve highspeed bullet train technology which is also fully electric. The American people are to filled with stupidity, blindness, ignorance and negativity to advance in these modern marvels of transportation. And the United States government??? Never.. their government are made up of people who are idiots. Highspeed bullet technology is something the mighty United States of America should of had decades ago. Highspeed bullet trains and maglev super train technology, the new american dream..,.,
Unless Texas Central attracts Brightline-ish private investment, I don't foresee progress until Texas politicians commit at least 30% of funds to HSR projects.
Texas will provide some infrastructure road and bridge funds for highway overpasses and underpasses, but I doubt whether Texas would subsidize HSR more than what they do presently with Amtrak's Heartland Flyer. Texas Central chose the most economical route along mostly an electric transmission line corridor in the rural area, and along the Dallas Trinity River levee and Houston US-290 corridor adjacent to a freight railroad line. The HSR station in Dallas will be south of I-30 near the convention center downtown, and in Houston at a former mall near the I-610 and US-290 interchange a few miles from downtown. Texas Central did NOT choose the MOST expensive route through Central Valley downtowns alongside US-99. It isn't Texas' fault the former passenger railroads terminated their services when the USPS cancelled their mail contracts back during the 1960s. Many of the very nice stations were demolished when the former passenger railroads terminated their services to avoid paying property taxes. It isn't Texas' fault Amtrak refuses to provide daily Sunset Limited services east or west. It isn't Texas' fault Amtrak terminated the daily Houston to Dallas train which connected to the Texas Eagle. If anything, the second largest populated state has been SCREWED by Amtrak, up to a CRIMINAL status. Texas desires a long distance train from Houston thru Dallas thru Amarillo to Colorado Springs and Denver, the former route of Burlington's Texas Zephyr. Not only would it serve Texas with a more direct route to Colorado and possibly to the Pacific Northwest, this route would serve the south with the same route without having to go out of the way to Chicago. And yes I also advocate the former Desert Wind (Las Vegas) and Pioneer (Boise) trains return for Amtrak to provide better services in the West.
@@ronclark9724 Great comment.
Yeah right! This is America, not Japan...