Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Push for high-speed rail in Texas re-emerges

From KVUE, January 29, 2009...

The vision of high-speed rail lines swiftly shuttling Texans between big cities such as San Antonio and Houston in brisk 90-minute trips is trying to get back on track.

Bullet trains in Texas are being touted again in a big way, and backers who hope to have a $12 billion to $18 billion network of high-speed trains running by 2020 say their proposal won't fall flat again.

Fifteen years ago, an initial plan went nowhere. The new push bills a so-called Texas T-Bone corridor that would run between cities including Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin and Waco.

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