Do you’ll think the bullet train is dead? No news since October. I haven’t been able to find updates about the company. The project while interesting seemed too ambitious.
It will never happen in my opinion. America’s is completely controlled by oil, and Texas is the heart of the American oil industry. Having a bullet train would undermine their profit margins.
Then there are NIMBYs who would tie up projects on a city level.
It seems like the current Texas government is more concerned about identity politics than actual progress.
investing in ecologically sensible infrastructure is less important to the texas legislature than declaring the parents of trans kids to be criminals
Maybe we’ll see a from federal government one day, like the Federal Aid Highway Act did for Interstate highways. One can dream.
As a child in Houston I grew up hearing about a bullet train in Texas. Also dragons. I’m more likely to ride the dragon than the train.
But optimistically, I would say that we’ve now neglected our roads so badly that soon the train is going to be cheaper than repairing our roads and bridges would be.
If it’s actually good for the citizens of Texas, it’ll get buried. If the state can figure out how to sell it to a billionaire for less than it’s worth and some campaign money, they’ll make it work just long enough to squeeze cash out of local municipalities then let it die.
I hope it is alive. Bullet trains and sensible infrastructure would create immense wealth in Texas. We just lack the political will.
The other day I was planning a trip from the RGV to Austin. I was not quite in the mood for driving so my options were an expensive flight or an expensive and long bus drive.
I’ve been following this since TCR first came to my university in 2013, no progress has been made
