High Speed Rail in the USA.

It is interesting Texas is planning a bullet train. Whether or not they actually build it relies on funding, private funding. There are many implications with private funding, but, this may be a financing option. The effort to make this happen should prove to be of interest.


Anyway, high speed rail is the future and the sooner the nation gets their minds around that reality, the better.


Posted Wednesday, May. 09, 2012

BY GORDON DICKSON

gdickson@star-telegram.com

LEIPZIG, Germany -- They travel more than 200 mph, (click here) and during 48 years of operation in Japan, they have never been involved in a fatal crash.

They are bullet trains, a form of transportation many Texans thought they'd never see -- unless they were on vacation in Asia or Europe. But rail advocates say a proposal to build a high-speed line connecting Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston may happen a lot sooner than many residents think -- possibly by 2020.

A group led by Central Japan Railway Co. that includes notable Texans such as former Harris County Judge Robert Eckels is seeking roughly $10 billion in private investment. Officials with that group, who plan to brief the Regional Transportation Council today in Arlington, say they will not ask for federal or state funding....

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