It's clear OP is emotionally attached to this issue which is almost never a good starting point for a debate. Some things he's gotten wrong
- private companies aren't entitled to eminent domain. This isn't capitalism it's corruption. We just haven't figured out who got paid yet.
- there aren't millions of Texans without cars period and certainly not ones that regularly travel from Houston to Dallas or vice versa. This is simply factually incorrect.
- expanding I-45 by one lane each way wouldn't require eminent domain as the land is already part of the I-45 corridor.
- there are no trains in the US that are profitable on fare revenue. All systems are taxpayer subsidized.
- Texas politicians and California politicians aren't different animals. They're both humans so they're both motivated by the same things, money and power.
- the stop servicing BCS is in Roan's Prairie which at a minimum means a whole lot of Uber traffic on Hwy 30 from a stop that's 15 miles from town. You can drive to wherever the Houston stop will be from most anywhere in BCS in the same time it'll take to load up, rail to Roans Prairie, unload and drive to town. In other words here to Houston is useless.
Take a step back from the emotion and do some math. That's where these projects always fail and where this one will fail as well.
A fearful society is a compliant society. That's why Democrats and criminals prefer their victims to be unarmed. Gun Control is not about guns, it's about control.