Environmental impact and informational meetings continue around the state through October. Texas Central Railway officials say they’re working to avoid that and will continue to take public comment. Essentially, would kill a farm or ranch.” Farmhouse on one side, land’s on the other side, and a railroad like this you just cannot cross. "You know, I see this too much on the freeway. “I hate to see someone’s farm or ranch cut in half," Minden said. As this project continues, computer programmer Michael Minden of Sachse wants the rail company to protect rural Texans as much as possible. The two routes under consideration run parallel and to the west of I-45. "As you add mountains or anywhere you have to do tunnels, it becomes very cost prohibitive.” “It’s very straight, flat, undeveloped," rail consultant Jerry Smiley said. Two north-south options will now be studied for the preferred track route. KERA News About 100 people caught the latest updates on plans for a Dallas-to-Houston, privately funded, high speed rail line Tuesday night at Dallas' InfoMart. Multiple options are being considered for Houston’s stop, as well. “For expansion to DFW, to Oklahoma City, Fort Worth,” Price said, “it would be so short-sighted to end it anywhere but Union Station because of all the connections that are already built in there.”
“We want the train speeding into Union Station,” declared Dallas City Council member Vonciel Jones Hill, who spoke for the mayor and city at the meeting.įort Worth resident J.R. Texas Central Railway officials promise it’ll at least be competitive with flying, but it’s too soon to talk fares for this privately-funded venture.Ĭonsultants offered three Dallas options: the intersections of Interstate 45 and Loop 12 I-45 and Interstate 20 and the southwest edge of downtown Dallas. Department of Transportation is already talking with mayors in Austin and San Antonio about connecting their cities. High-speed rail advocates in Texas believe the private project could jump-start a network of high-speed routes across the state. It would be faster than any train operating in the United States. Texas Central Railway wants to build a Dallas-to-Houston corridor for a 200-mph electric train, like the ones that operate in Japan. “And it would be phenomenal for someone like me because I’m pretty sure it’ll be less expensive than taking the airlines,” Olivier says. Now she's eager for the bullet train option where she suspects she'll get more work done in a pleasant, roomier space than in a plane, and for a lower cost. It may be wider in places to improve access for adjacent landowners, emergency response, or where maintenance-of-way facilities, power substations or signal huts are constructed near the track.KERA News Business woman Raquel Olivier used to make the four-hour drive between Dallas and Houston. Though large in magnitude, the railroad will only require a small footprint similar to a typical two-lane farm to market road, and will follow existing right-of-way to the maximum extent possible. Both options, however, allow for the design of large and conveniently located underpasses or overpasses. Where viaducts are not feasible for elevation, the system will run elevated berms. The current design of the system calls for more than 50 percent of the 240-miles of tracks to be elevated on viaducts in order to preserve access for landowners. The Train will also utilize nearly 1,100 miles of steel rail and more than 1.4 million concrete railroad ties.
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It will include 3 stations, one each in North Texas, Houston and the Brazos Valley, plus train maintenance facilities to support routine upkeep of the system along the route. The Texas high-speed train will utilize nearly 10 million cubic yards of concrete – the nearly three times the amount used to build the Hoover Dam.
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