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Protester of proposed Houston-Dallas Japanese-style high-speed rail line shouts "remember Pearl Harbor"

August 17th, 2016
August 11, 2016 - Houson Chronicle Video has surfaced on YouTube of an opponent of the proposed Houston-Dallas high-speed rail line shouting "remember Pearl Harbor" during a recent protest.  We wonder if any protesters drove over to the event in a Honda? ...

Grimes County Tries to Derail Dallas/Houston High-Speed Train

August 17th, 2016
August 9, 2016 - Texas Tribune - In a rebuke of a private firm’s plans to build a bullet train between Houston and Dallas, local officials in rural southeastern Texas moved Tuesday to restrict high-speed rail development in their corner of the state. Grimes County...

Texas’ high-speed train: Right project, right way, right time

July 27th, 2016
BY HOLLY REED Special to the Star-Telegram A high-speed train between North Texas and Houston offers Texans more than quick relief from traffic-choked highways. The privately developed project will be an economic powerhouse, creating local jobs, generating community tax revenue and creating Texas’...

Texas Bullet Train Opponents Hope to Block Project Next Year

July 26th, 2016
July 26, 2016 - Texas Tribune The state Legislature could put up major road blocks next year for a private firm's plans to build a high-speed rail project connecting Houston and Dallas now that a federal transportation board has decided the...

Texas Thinks its High-Speed Rail Plans Will Win Where Others Have Hit Roadblocks

July 24th, 2016
July 21, 2016 - skift.com A $100 million bet says that thousands of Texans will abandon cars and pick-ups for a needle-nosed bullet train that zips past cattle and ranches to deliver riders from Dallas to Houston in 90 minutes —...

Two new VP's named for Dallas-Houston high-speed train company

July 24th, 2016
July 18, 2016 - Dallas Morning News The developers of a high-speed bullet train between Dallas and Houston added two former public officials to its team, the company announced. Texas Central Partners has tapped former Texas Transportation Commission memberJeff Moseley as its...

SurfTransBoard denies Texas Central claim as part of national network

July 18th, 2016
Updated July 19, 2016 - TRA Newswire Updated with response from Texas Central The Surface Transportation Board struck a blow to Texas Central Railway today in stating that the board does not have jurisdiction over the railway since it would operate entirely within...

Former TX Transpo official and 2 others join Texas Central High Speed Rail

July 18th, 2016
July 18, 2016 - TRA Newswire Texas Central railway CEO Tim Keith announced that the high speed rail project added three key players today to their roster, including a former Texas Transportation Commission member. In a news release, Keith announced that "it's...

Some Texans fighting against multi-billion dollar bullet train

July 7th, 2016
July 2, 2016 - Cypress Creek Mirror Texas is looking like it will become the first state in the nation to get a bullet train. Texas Central Partners, LLC (Texas Central), a private company that is leading the bullet train project...

Could Virgin Trains run Texas Central's future trains?

July 6th, 2016
Here's a most interesting question. Is it possible that UK-based Virgin Trains could supply the on-board crews to run Japanese-type bullet trains between Dallas and Houston? If so, this would bring a very high level of service to Texans who...

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