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.
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.
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.
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.