High-speed rail: Dallas to Houston should go full steam ahead

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The Dallas to Houston high-speed rail plan should go ahead, but the City Council is right to resist pressure to commit to a separate plan that would build an...

Dallas is poised to pour a lot of money into the southwest corner of downtown in the next few years. City officials plan to break ground on a new $3 billion convention center this year, and plans for a bullet train with a terminus in the Cedars neighborhood are also chugging along.. For Dallas, that means focusing on a high-speed rail line to Houston, another Texas economic hub and the largest city in the state.

The Dallas-Houston route wouldn’t run into this problem because the line terminates in the Cedars and the train will run parallel to Interstate 45 for most of the journey. The Fort Worth extension, which is estimated to cost around $6 billion, has been treated like a political football. Council members said that Council of Governments officials shared complex white papers and schematics of the train just 24 hours before slated briefings. Michael Morris, North Central Texas Council of Governments transportation department head, pointed to a document the City Council had signed back in 2015 agreeing to a “one-seat ride” to marshalconsensus for the project.

 

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