SocraticGadfly: Texas bullet train gets fluffed again

April 30, 2024

Texas bullet train gets fluffed again

Please make it stop, at least while all the old mindsets are in place.

The Chronic plays up Amtrak's looking at Texas high-speed rail. As long as Amtrak keeps itself wedded to the Texas Central concept, including a stop at Roans Prairie (ie BFE) and the real estate grifting of whatever sort that is attached to that, it ain't going nowhere — and shouldn't. Kuff, Brains and any other current (active or inactive), or former, members of Texas Progressives who live in the Houston area need to be real — and, even more, need to be honest about the Texas Central route. 

In my opinion, following Texas 6 from Helltown to College Station and Waco, then up I-35, has always made much more sense.

Beyond that, given its operations elsewhere in Texas, Amtrak involvement doesn't guarantee good routing.

 

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