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As for that bill, only Dallas, Houston, and their suburbs are cities that the HSR will run through. And when the counties and school districts see what the property taxes will be annually from a HSR, their opposition will drop quickly. ;) The HSR qualifies, just as a railroad within the Texas Transportation Code, to get eminent domain powers. It doesn't matter what type transportation mode it is; waterway, highway, airway, or railway; private or public. They will still have to go to court and all the legal steps to get a judge to approve it, usually the only issue is arriving at the honest value for the land. TXDOT wants it to happen. The Electric Utilities already have easements to the property in question for their power lines. Technically, that's all the railroad will need, if they build an elevated railroad guideway over your property. The farmer or ranchers will still own the land, and can access the other side of the tracks simply by driving under the viaducts. Not every farmer or rancher will oppose selling easements away, money talks! The railroad following US 290 out of Houston to the northwest is absolutely straight for 50 miles or so, then there would be a curve to head north around the Harris County line, where the power line is absolutely straight 50 miles or so to Jewett Texas, where the train will maneuver around a few lignite mines and power plant, then head north again absolutely straight 50 miles or so until entering Ellis County, with a few right and left turns the last 50 miles or so into Dallas County and Dallas. Every one of those 50 mile segments lasts 15 minutes or so at 200 mph. :) |
So it w shouldn't be much of an issue in the rural areas, but mainly around Dallas and Houston.
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I think if they choose the I-45 option, they should put at stop at The Woodlands. It would be a huge ridership generator.
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While the environmental study hasn't been completed and the routing hasn't been officially verified,Texas Central has already stated its preference of the Utility corridor. So I suggest the I-45 routing is dead for all practical purposes. |
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I'm not following but either-way, a Woodlands stop would be a no-brainer; the airport, prosperous bustling area, etc. |
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Does Woodlands provide Houston's Metro any tax revenues? |
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http://cdn.citylab.com/media/img/cit...lead_large.jpg http://www.texansagainsthsr.com/#sthash.tViSCFI0.dpbs http://i.imgur.com/17LKJRx.png?1 What are we doing to oppose high-speed rail in Texas? - Working with legislators and other elected officials directly and through our lobbyist to support the creation and passage of legislation to oppose high-speed rail in Texas. - Hosting meetings throughout the state to increase awareness and raise funds to support this effort. - Making grassroots efforts easier by providing sample letters and the ease of sending letters directly from our website, as well as utilizing social media to keep you informed and engaged in the high-speed rail opposition conversation. |
I don't get it. Anyone can yet count 5 metro areas that should be slashing Texas's face with HSR lines already. Houston, San Antonio, Dallas Fort Worth, Austin and maybe even el Paso. What would they wait for any longer to make business faster within their own state?
“There are no profitable high-speed rail lines in the world,” Workman said. “They are all heavily taxpayer supported.” Definitely, it's still pretty expensive. But even though it's complex, they should try assessing indirect benefits. Sometimes, it may well be worth paying taxes... Makes me thinking, the Europeans always made the same mistake in the space industry. That's how we never funded any Euro space shuttle, while easily able to develop some. The indirect research and tech benefits would be significant to the entire continent. It just takes a little feeling about strategy to understand. |
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I do wonder about the economics though. Things like bad weather and clogged freeways make trains in the NorthEast seem like a relatively better idea. However, building anything in the NorthEast is so insanely expensive that the price would seem to counterbalance any sort of improved utility. Questions like these are no reason for politicians to get involved though. If private investors lose their ass on this project, that's their problem not the governments. |
Why would anyone be against high speed rail, especially a privately funded one at that?!
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What do you think? Remote work hardly works for 3 days a week for now within greater Paris alone. Are you seriously thinking greater Paris is late on that matter? Uhh, no. It is way larger than you would ever thought of it, sprawling like any random US crazy ass. Of course, people won't always trust in you online. Sometimes they will, but not always. And they are right about that. In short, develop HRS in Texas, if you want it to survive somehow. Cause this real world will have no mercy. |
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^ No. It's far from being that simple, even for an actual engineer. Believe it. BTW, what the hell does "being good looking" or attractive or whatever mean? Are you raving? You're a complexed victim? It means nothing much to my butt so long as you're neither too fat nor too anorexic like a fashion victim.
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The same property that expanding or building new highways would use?
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Watch and Weep
YouTube clip of anti-HSR Nimby's.
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hahahahaha wow
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