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Texas poised to get America's first bullet train

www.newsweek.com Texas poised to get America's first bullet train

Plans are reportedly being revived for a high-speed rail link utilizing Japanese trains running between Houston and Dallas.

President Joe Biden is reportedly seeking to revive a project that would construct a high-speed railway from Houston to Dallas in Texas utilizing Japanese bullet trains.

According to a Reuters report on Tuesday, citing unnamed administration sources, the White House is looking to make an announcement on the project following talks between Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Washington, D.C., this week.

The Japanese government and the White House declined to comment on the report, though the project has seen renewed support from Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who told KXAS in Fort Worth on Sunday: "We believe in this."

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Texas @lemmy.world Texas poised to get America's first bullet train

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Texas signed up first because it has “bullet” in the title.

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I'd prefer some other state to get it than Texas. If Texas is going to deny federal money for unemployment and for healthcare, then Texas doesn't deserve federal money for other good projects.

And this is coming from someone in Texas who would benefit from it.

Texas GOP governor Greg Abbott has told state employees to try to avoid federal money because it might come with strings that require treating non rich and non whites as human.

Remember when Greg Abbott had a tantrum and basically shut down the Texas-Mexico border to most road traffic and fucked over all the rest of the US who was depending on products to come from Mexico?

Let Texas feel what it would be like to secede.

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They're gonna be real pissed when they find out somebody used the word bullet to dupe them into building public transport.

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It'll get canned as soon as Texans realize it's not called a bullet train because of any involvement with guns.

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Texas figured it out?

Texas?

Yeah, this is a real low point. This one hurts.

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I still think NYC-Chicago is the real test of high speed rail in this country. A route people want to take, that’s far enough to fly, between two cities where car ownership is optional.

I’m glad Dallas-Houston is happening but I wonder how much traffic it will get. In my midwestern mind they’re both just “texas big city”

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With Texas' hardon against regulations I forsee this having a massive derailment within two decades of it opening.

Hope that isn't the case, because we do need better mass transit.

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Plot twist. The train will be loaded into a giant gun and literally fired like a bullet because Texas.

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I would be so down for this

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Time for Elon Musk to create a new vapour-ware like the boring tunnel to stop mass transplantation that will compete with his electric car empire

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To everyone outside if Texas: they've been talking about this for decades.

You know who will always find sneaky ways to sabotage it? The airlines.

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Gregg Abbott in a few weeks: "Trains?! Sounds like trans... No thanks, Biden!"

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So people can get out of Texas faster?

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Man they’ve been trying to do this for years, but companies like Southwest lobby against it. Even Rick Perry was on board.

I would love to see it become a reality, but I’m skeptical.

Texas Monthly, 2015:

A Tale of Two Cities, a Bullet Train, and the Farmland in Between

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A bullet train? in my Texas?! That sounds like some east coast liberal anti-car woke socialism!!

We dont want none of that hippy dippy liberty stealing foreigner mass transit in our glorious state!

/s for the oblivious

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Meanwhile, China has over 30,000 high-speed rail lines.

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As much as I hate to admit it, The People's Republic of Texastan kind-of makes sense as a starting point given the geography. If we can extend this to a nationwide network, it would be a very, very big deal.

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The year is 2008 and Texas residents are being promised a bullet train.

The year is 2016 and Texas residents are being promised a bullet train.

The year is 2024 and Texas residents are being promised a bullet train.

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If we get a bullet train in the US it should be something like a DC to San Francisco route, make a proper substitute for cross country flights.

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Greg Abbott is not about to let this dope idea happen. Ain't no way.

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Ya cool, but are Texans going to run it? They don't exactly have a good track record when it comes to infrastructure. Maybe put it someplace, how do I put this... smarter?

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I just want to see their faces, when they realise, that Bullet is NOT that bullet they thought...

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Yeah, not going to happen. Most projects of this size are dead in arrival, even if faintly realistic at the start.

How about you just start with good rail infrastructure and upgrade and improve there? So many more gains for a fraction of the cost.

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No New York, Boston, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chicago though right? Only the Terrible people of Texas?

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I'm so fucking skeptical of this happening though. I hope it does get through.

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Just three or four decades after the rest of the civilized world! Yeah!

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The California one is an idiotic waste of money ever since they made it jog inland to appease local lawmakers instead of doing a straight shot between SoCal and NorCal.

Hope Texas gets it right and proves that high-speed electric rail makes sense and is sustainable.

Wait, who am I kidding. They may well insist it should run on pure Texas Raw Crude.

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Is this likely to be built before CAHSR and Brightline West?

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Having lived in houston, I'm not sure what you'd do without a car there for many destinations. I guess it is at least fewer cars and emissions betweenr the two even if many will have to rent a car or taxi around the cities themselves.

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NRA did not do their homework with this one...

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