(Our members include) Brazos County, Dallas County, Tarrant County, the Port of Houston Authority, the North East Texas Rural Rail District, American and Continental Airlines, and Scott & White Hospital.So filled with meaningless buzzwords. On that one page there are two "grassroots," two "collaborative," two "innovative" and one "proactive."
Grassroots my butt. Also see running the numbers.
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I like the 'military' touch. They did the same thing to justify building the Interstates back in the 50's.
Ignoring the 'grassroots' thing.. so this train will link together airports, which are not exactly in the center of town. This helps because they already have rental car counters there? By the time I wait through the rental lines, this saves me how much time?
And in the realm of "lies, damn lies, and statistics", do you really have over 1,000,000 college students in the corridor?
Well, if you count all of the college students in all of the schools in San Antonio, San Marcos, Austin, Waco, Dallas, College Station and Houston, I suspect that would be a million or so. But I suspect the only ones who would take a train to visit mom and dad are the ones that currently ride Greyhound. That's 0.05 percent of one million.
Looks like THSRTC's efforts have been derailed.
In England and Spain, Al-Queada has been bombing trains.
All train passengers should be required to go through Homewand Suckerty/TSA. You know, get there an hour, at least before your trip. Shoes off, strip search.
All the train union employees should be relatives of politicians or their contributors.
Me? I'll drive. The roads will be empty due to the magic future train thingy.
It is cheaper to buy buses (even if you convert them to run on natural gas), letting everyone ride for free for the next 50 years, than it is to spend the billions to build light rail.
Bill, this isn't vaguely "light rail". To operate a train at high speed takes the heaviest, most precise, infrastructure you can manage.
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