Do you’ll think the bullet train is dead? No news since October. I haven’t been able to find updates about the company. The project while interesting seemed too ambitious.

  • drapermache@lemmy.world
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    It will never happen in my opinion. America’s is completely controlled by oil, and Texas is the heart of the American oil industry. Having a bullet train would undermine their profit margins.

    Then there are NIMBYs who would tie up projects on a city level.

    It seems like the current Texas government is more concerned about identity politics than actual progress.

  • sqw@lemmy.sdf.org
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    investing in ecologically sensible infrastructure is less important to the texas legislature than declaring the parents of trans kids to be criminals

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      1 year ago

      Maybe we’ll see a from federal government one day, like the Federal Aid Highway Act did for Interstate highways. One can dream.

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    If it’s actually good for the citizens of Texas, it’ll get buried. If the state can figure out how to sell it to a billionaire for less than it’s worth and some campaign money, they’ll make it work just long enough to squeeze cash out of local municipalities then let it die.

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    As a child in Houston I grew up hearing about a bullet train in Texas. Also dragons. I’m more likely to ride the dragon than the train.

    But optimistically, I would say that we’ve now neglected our roads so badly that soon the train is going to be cheaper than repairing our roads and bridges would be.

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    1 year ago

    I hope it is alive. Bullet trains and sensible infrastructure would create immense wealth in Texas. We just lack the political will.

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      1 year ago

      The other day I was planning a trip from the RGV to Austin. I was not quite in the mood for driving so my options were an expensive flight or an expensive and long bus drive.

  • BigFig@lemmy.worldM
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    I’ve been following this since TCR first came to my university in 2013, no progress has been made