AggieCo2023 said:
I trust Texans can handle a project better that Californians
Why? We are far more conservative. You are far left. Conservatives very bad. Far left very good. Right?
Why would you trust Texans with engaging, leftist?
AggieCo2023 said:
I trust Texans can handle a project better that Californians
Come on - Amtrak is subsidized each year by billions of dollars and then cries to get more to be "profitable".Manhattan said:
Amtrak owns most of their rail on the NEC, it isn't true high spelled rail because nimbys like in this thread won't allow the changes like make turns wider to speed up the trains.
Government of course!Street Fighter said:swampdog01 said:
Don't have a vehicle and can't afford to travel by existing options
Then HTF are they getting to tbe train station out on the boonies?
1991sir said:
Why should a private company have the right to eminent domain? What happens when a big corporation wants land in an area that will encourage growth and land owners don't want to sell? Would this set precedence?
NOTHING about this makes sense.fka ftc said:YokelRidesAgain said:So this train is going to drop me off in the butt crack middle of nowhere in Grimes County, with no car? Awesome.curry97 said:
Roans Prairie is the proposed site for that stop which is 30 minutes from BCS.
Dems call this "progress".
Having a train dropping folks off in the middle of nowhere is how College Station got started. What's old is new again.
For the record, the stops on this train maybe zero ****ing sense.
Does the City run that or is Santa's Wonderland footing the bill for that?AggieCo2023 said:
You don't think the city can run a shuttle from the train station to campus/downtown? Hell they run a shuttle from the mall to Santa's wonderland lol
fka ftc said:
The WFH / remote working is fading faster than it came on. See massive layoffs in tech and other areas as the bets that WFH was here to stay are all busting.,
that is 100% true and I'm one of the few people that would beneficially use it (professional whose work is concentrated in downtown).BMX Bandit said:
So what is the travel time on train supposed to be from Houston to Roans Prarie?
(It's hilarious to me that people still pushing this train as some great thing the state needs. It's the very definition of a boondoggle)
AggieCo2023 said:
You don't think the city can run a shuttle from the train station to campus/downtown? Hell they run a shuttle from the mall to Santa's wonderland lol
Aggie_Boomin 21 said:fka ftc said:
The WFH / remote working is fading faster than it came on. See massive layoffs in tech and other areas as the bets that WFH was here to stay are all busting.,
I didn't say or mean people that WFH. This train has a minimum travel time of 90 minutes from station to station. With all the other added time, that would be well over 2 hours from somewhere in DFW metro to somewhere in Houston metro one way. That isn't a reasonable daily commute for most people. This would service people that have to go from one to the other for occasional business reasons, and I think virtual meetings, unlike mass WFH, are here to stay to cut down on travel costs.
That is if you can build it for 30B. How is CA doing vs. original budget?Admiral Adama said:
Southwest round-trip Lovefield to Hobby $240.
Bullet train $30B / $240 = 125,000,000 round trips.
DFW and Houston metro combined populations: 15 million
Round trips per person: 8.3
For the same cost as building the bullet train we could give every single person living in the Houston and Dallas metros eight round trip flights on Southwest. What a bargain for the Texas tax payer.
I've never seen any published projected ticket pricing, and I don't think it was ever included in any of the marketing surveys they conducted. They loved to tout the "interest" they had, but when you looked at the marketing/survey questions it was, "Would you be interested in... or Would you consider..." The questions were designed to generate "Yes" answers.Aggie_Boomin 21 said:
Have they said or hinted at how much tickets would cost? That's the worst part about trains in the US, not only are they slow (not applicable to this train I know), but they're also typically expensive. Amtrak cost more than airlines, a good amount of metro's light rail systems cost considerably more than driving.
AggieCo2023 said:
There's literally perfect functioning trains in several other states lol. Why can't Texas do something Japan and Europe can?
AggieCo2023 said:
https://original.newsbreak.com/@jalyn-smoot-1588339/2898655750882-texas-supreme-court-ruling-paves-way-for-30-billion-dollar-dallas-to-houston-bullet-train
Apologies if there already was a thread, but exciting news from the Texas Supreme Court who gave life to this project connecting Dallas and Houston. It also will include a stop in Brazos County which will be helpful for students from each of those cities which is probably 40% of the student body. Hopefully this is completed soon and gives Texans other (quicker) alternatives between the two cities. Should help further our economy as more and more companies are moving their HQ's and production here.
Dan Scott said:
$30B seems like a good deal. I-45 expansion project is 10 years $10B only about 15 miles
Please name one functioning train in other states that's not a yearly drain on the tax payers.AggieCo2023 said:
There's literally perfect functioning trains in several other states lol. Why can't Texas do something Japan and Europe can?
Aggie_Boomin 21 said:Dan Scott said:
$30B seems like a good deal. I-45 expansion project is 10 years $10B only about 15 miles
That project is projected to be just under $8B and has a much higher proportion of it in an urban area than the train would. They don't serve the same purpose at all either, not sure why you brought it up.
Not comparable
He doesn't care about the worthless taxpayers and their money, especially the really rich ones.akm91 said:Please name one functioning train in other states that's not a yearly drain on the tax payers.AggieCo2023 said:
There's literally perfect functioning trains in several other states lol. Why can't Texas do something Japan and Europe can?