Texas Bullet Train Moving Forward Despite Obstacles
September 14th, 2015
September 8, 2015 - Texas Tribune
by Aman Batheja
The private firm hoping to build a high-speed rail line between Dallas and Houston has been celebrating a summer of successes: completing a successful round of fundraising, seeing a key federal study move forward, surviving the legislative session unscathed.
But three years after Texas Central Partners first revealed its ambitious venture, a series of financial, logistical and political challenges remain. To Kyle Workman, president of Texans Against High-Speed Rail, those challenges are enough to make him question whether construction on the project will ever begin.
Read more: http://www.texastribune.org/2015/09/08/texas-bullet-train-moving-forward-despite-obstacle/
by Aman Batheja
The private firm hoping to build a high-speed rail line between Dallas and Houston has been celebrating a summer of successes: completing a successful round of fundraising, seeing a key federal study move forward, surviving the legislative session unscathed.
But three years after Texas Central Partners first revealed its ambitious venture, a series of financial, logistical and political challenges remain. To Kyle Workman, president of Texans Against High-Speed Rail, those challenges are enough to make him question whether construction on the project will ever begin.
Read more: http://www.texastribune.org/2015/09/08/texas-bullet-train-moving-forward-despite-obstacle/