The proposed electric railway line could travel 240 miles in under 90 minutes for over 6 million passengers per year.
Texas could get a 205-mph bullet train zipping between Houston and Dallas::The proposed electric railway line could travel 240 miles in under 90 minutes for over 6 million passengers per year.
Not sure if it’s going to happen in Texas, but the Bright line high speed rail between Miami and Orlando is going to be finished by the end of the month hopefully!
The biggest obstacle, besides politics and oil/gas money, is neither of these cities are non-car friendly. Both cities are so sprawling you end up spending significantly more time using public transportation than driving. That’s even if public transportation goes to the part of the city you need.
They’ll each need an intermodal stop. That would be so much easier on passengers than the traditional airport stop and, given projected volume, would be essential.
I live in Texas and this is unlikely to happen. It was more likely to happen a few years back. I doubt they will build a eletric train between two liberal cities. The only thing that would make it less likely is if you said it was a gay eletric train. Even if they did, Texas cities are sprawled out and require a car. It would only work if you could load your car on the train. It would be useful for students going back and forth to their universities. However, university students are almost as despised as poor people or minorities to most of the voters in Texas.
I’m seeing a lot of commenters shitting on Texas here, and while it’s not completely undeserved, I’d like to point out that Texas is 1st in the nation in wind power generation. Texas will implement things – even “Blue” things – if the economics make sense.
Seriously. It comes up every couple of years. Then the residents of Grimes county get all up in arms, put signs all along highway 6, vote against it, and then it dies a silent death.
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I feel so sorry for anyone whos gonna live near that thing
At full speed those trains sound like a formula 1 track during a race. (And thats before they went from V8s to V6s
So that’s where they export the outdated European first generation trains from the 80s to.
Not sure if it’s going to happen in Texas, but the Bright line high speed rail between Miami and Orlando is going to be finished by the end of the month hopefully!
That shit has been a battle for the best part of two decades … Can’t believe it finally happened
“Could”
The biggest obstacle, besides politics and oil/gas money, is neither of these cities are non-car friendly. Both cities are so sprawling you end up spending significantly more time using public transportation than driving. That’s even if public transportation goes to the part of the city you need.
They’ll each need an intermodal stop. That would be so much easier on passengers than the traditional airport stop and, given projected volume, would be essential.
DART is pretty alright if you’re near a stop.
I live in Texas and this is unlikely to happen. It was more likely to happen a few years back. I doubt they will build a eletric train between two liberal cities. The only thing that would make it less likely is if you said it was a gay eletric train. Even if they did, Texas cities are sprawled out and require a car. It would only work if you could load your car on the train. It would be useful for students going back and forth to their universities. However, university students are almost as despised as poor people or minorities to most of the voters in Texas.
What if they promised to put guns on the front of the train? Would that help?
I love the way you think.
Put gunner’s nests on the train, B-52 style.
Advertise the shit out of that job.
We’ll have republicans building trains between neighborhoods by the end of the year.
“Could”
Elorn will find a way to get it scrapped like he did in california.
I’m seeing a lot of commenters shitting on Texas here, and while it’s not completely undeserved, I’d like to point out that Texas is 1st in the nation in wind power generation. Texas will implement things – even “Blue” things – if the economics make sense.
they can’t even keep their power grid functioning in extreme hot or cold weather 🤔
Right? Sorry folks, no train today, it’s over 80f or below 30f degrees out
Can do… But won’t
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rsDeBrtY5W4
Been talking about this for years, wake me up when they actually start doing something.
Seriously. It comes up every couple of years. Then the residents of Grimes county get all up in arms, put signs all along highway 6, vote against it, and then it dies a silent death.
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“Could” being the operative word. People have been trying to build this since the 1990s.
You’ve gotta laugh… It is the same everywhere I think: Is a high-speed rail possible in Australia
I doubt it … first, it’s electric, and second, you cannot install a lift kit on it.
But you could add some truck nuts behind every train car and some bull horns on the front.