Can Amtrak Finally Bring High-Speed Rail To Texas?
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День томуAfter decades of research, the U.S. remains without authentic high-speed rail options. Federal planners believe that a route connecting major cities in Texas may be an ideal fit.
In 2014, a group organized under the name Texas Central announced plans to connect Dallas to Houston with a bullet train that travels more than 200 miles per hour, shortening a three and a half hour drive to a 90-minute train ride. The route would connect two large and fast-growing population centers, making one stop near local universities in the Brazos Valley.
The Texas Central project has been repeatedly delayed as its backers navigate various regulatory hurdles, including environmental reviews and disputes over property rights. The leadership team at Texas Central resigned in the middle of land acquisition for the process. Texas Central declined multiple requests for comment from CNBC.
The project is expected to cost at least $33.6 billion dollars, according to a March 2023 analysis from the Reason Foundation. Similar high-speed rail projects around the world have faced substantial cost overruns in development. That includes Japan's Tokaido Shinkansen system and California High-Speed Rail, which could someday connect Los Angeles to San Francisco.
The Texas effort has received substantial support from businesses in Texas, Japanese firms and the U.S. government. With a historic $66 billion commitment to passenger rail, the U.S. government under Biden appears to have its best bet in generations to start an authentic high-speed rail system. But the future of publicly subsidized projects, including Texas Central and California High-Speed Rail remain uncertain.
Amtrak told CNBC that if Texas Central passes a financial review, it could be open for passengers as soon as the early 2030s.
Chapters:
0:00 - 1:50 Introduction
1:55 Chapter 1 - Texas Triangle
4:35 Chapter 2 - Landowners
8:55 Chapter 3 - Amtrak partnership
12:02 Chapter 4 - Shinkansen in Texas
Produced, Shot and Edited by: Carlos Waters
Supervising Producer: Jeniece Pettitt
Additional production by: Liam Mays
Additional Camera by: Katie Brigham, Nathaniel Lee, Magdalena Petrova, Andrew Evers, Ashley Stringer
Animation: Christina Locopo
Additional Footage: Getty Images, KBTX
Additional Sources: Google Maps, North Central Texas Council of Governments, Reason Foundation, Rethink35, Texas State Library Archives, Texas Supreme Court
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Can Amtrak Finally Bring High-Speed Rail To Texas?
@KJVirander Місяць тому
I’ll never understand why building high speed rail or even light rail is so political. Not everyone wants to depend on a car and not everyone can afford it.
@beAsham3 Місяць тому
Car and Oil companies want you to depend on it. That's how they make hand over fist in profits every year by having a monopoly on the US's mode of travel.
@AcceptableVersion2-bz8dr Місяць тому
Rich people's way of excluding the poor from the suburbs by requiring a car
@joechung9388 Місяць тому
It's a zero-sum game. One more person to ride public transit means one less person to drive
@danielkosciuszko9788 Місяць тому
NIMBYs
@russianbear0027 Місяць тому
Many people are convinced by years of misinformation that the moment you step on a bus youll get stabbed. Though i think thats been turning around in the last decade
@tubefaze Місяць тому
"I will continue to fight for Texans." This woman does not in any way shape of form speak for the rest of us. This should have been built DECADES ago. Please bring high speed rail to Texas ASAP.
@cruisinguy6024 Місяць тому
In hindsight we should have expanded rail as part of the interstate highway projects but it’s a little late for that now. I’ve drive the Houston to Dallas route many times and it SUCKS. I would absolutely take rail but the biggest issue I see is the lack of interconnection at the ends. There needs to be a tie in to Amtrak in Houston, tie in to Ft worth and the other major areas in the DFW area, and a better (not bus) tie in to Houston’s light rail (even though it’s a joke). Side note, Houston’s light rail is a joke and should have been built in decades ago. I’ve lived in Texas and New York and it’s sooooo nice being able to take a train everywhere and not have to worry about traffic, or designated driver, or parking, and so on
@unomenah Місяць тому
@@MilwaukeeF40C u cant either stop inflation without building this;hence, its better to build it.
@Booz2010 Місяць тому
Make TEXAS Great Again 💪🦾
@doomtomb3 Місяць тому
We have been waiting for this for more than three decades. Screw the landowners and farmers. They do not care about the rest of us. They are corrupted by airlines and oil companies.
@AtulKedia Місяць тому
@@cruisinguy6024yes, end point connections are important. At the current state expanding any rail or public transit network is immensely important and will lead to other development in this area. Even if the Texas HDR initially ends at not great locations in Dallas and Houston, in sure the cities would start developing better connections, with light rail or anything, that will make it a complete network.
@void_skyy Місяць тому
as a central texan, this is desperately needed. i HATE driving 4 hours from austin to houston/dallas. high-speed rail would be a GAMECHANGER.
@MilwaukeeF40C Місяць тому
You could also adjust your life to not require so much unnecessary travel.
@void_skyy Місяць тому
@@MilwaukeeF40C . it's hard to simply "adjust" tens of thousands of lives out of the blue, and travel between the 4 major central texas cities is necessary for a LOT of people.
@karlshomekitchen Місяць тому
HOWEVER, way more people do not travel in such way, and they have to pay for it with their tax money. I would have supported high speed as long as it had paid for itself by ticket revenue. @@void_skyy
@eile4219 Місяць тому
Not when you find out the price of the ticket.
@karlshomekitchen Місяць тому
I understand your point. I hate paying so much for mortgage. Free housing or highly subsidized housing would be a GAMECHANGER for all of us
@cerka27 Місяць тому
That woman shouldn’t say she will continue to fight for Texas. I’m a Texan that has lived in Houston my entire life and I’m for high speed rail.
@PhoenixBlade538 Місяць тому
Same here!!
@jojo214xv Місяць тому
You can’t speak for other Texans either 😂. She’s a farmer obviously she, along w many other farmers will be impacted by it... we should really invest into our border security.
@geoms6263 Місяць тому
free Texassssss
@rtxhoneybees 28 днів тому
I've lived in Dallas 27 years and I am totally against it. Im tired of city people only thinking about themselves and their convenience. What gives you the right to divide someones land and deny them access to both sides?
@Jay-ef2ii 26 днів тому
@@jojo214xv Trains in Texas (referring to high speed rail) is nothing but a limit on Minority lands. Rich people only see their benefit. If people want to travel then they can take a plane or a car to their destination. April 2024.
@emikomina Місяць тому
eminent domain on 10 lane highways? - no problem, have a good day! eminent domain on a single high speed rail line? - hell NO, we need to protest this!
@Matthew-rp3jf Місяць тому
American airlines hq and southwest airlines..both in dallas. Follow thr money.
@L0LrevneD Місяць тому
@emikomina THAT ☝️
@Altoclarinets Місяць тому
I don't understand why the rail viaducts can't just be run down the median of the interstate for most of its length, for this and many other HSR projects. It's already acquired land and most of these highways go where people are wanting to go.
@L0LrevneD Місяць тому
@@Altoclarinets I think one reason is because highways twist and turn, sometimes tightly. Which true high speed rail systems need to run as straight as possible so as to maximize speed.
@soccerguy2433 Місяць тому
bank, pitch, curve requirements for cars vs trains. That's why. Especially for a bullet train.@@Altoclarinets
@OBSMProductions Місяць тому
The thing that gets me is when we built the interstate system most people's land that was taken had no say, it displaced millions and generates lots of noise and air pollution. An electric train is less land over viaducts and generates way less noise and no air pollution. Having some farmers that own huge acres saying its disruptive successfully blocking it is insane.
@coolboss999 Місяць тому
Right? I remember during the highway craze, they just destroyed neighborhoods without an issue. Now that we have high speed rail which would take up arguably less land to take everyone is against it 🙄
@doujinflip Місяць тому
Oh were issues, up to what's been dubbed "freeway riots". Thing is the freeway plans affected primarily poor minority neighborhoods, most successful opposition were rich white communities like Manhattan and Pasadena.
@The_king567 Місяць тому
Good it’s the farmers land they shouldn’t sell it
@KevinSmith-qi5yn Місяць тому
It's not really an issue of farmers not wanting to give up their land. It's an issue of getting enough money out of the transaction. It depends if they make the area under the elevated platform accessible. It also changes how the machinery has to be used. Texas has less strict environmental laws, so at least they don't have to worry about this getting stuck in courts for decades as all the environmental lawyers take their cut.
@soccerguy2433 Місяць тому
a train isn't less land and it's way more intrusive.
@aassure1936 Місяць тому
“It’s gonna cut Madison county and every other county it goes through in half” last time I checked it’s a lot easier to walk across/under a rail line than it is to cross a highway lmao.
@jakemoon8473 Місяць тому
The "local" Shinkansen is 3.5 hours from Tokyo to Osaka. The express (the most common service) is just under 2.5 hours and costs about $85. No US visitor could ride a Shinkansen and leave thinking we shouldn't have these in America. The best part about it is how easy it is. You don't really even need to check the timetables. You go to the station when you're ready, buy a ticket for the next one (they run every 8-20 minutes), and then you're on your way. You're not even tired when you arrive.
@hadriangonzalez607 Місяць тому
Even in Germany.. but the problem is.. not many US people travel outside of their states.. especially people from Texas.
@fleetingimmersion Місяць тому
@@hadriangonzalez607 I mean, I don't know about that, outside the country, sure, but state? I'm sure a large majority has taken family trips to grandma's house or the nearest coast (if not in a coastal state). I think it's more accurate to say that most Americans haven't been on a train, after all, only certain cities have metros, and the rest of the country is barely served.
@JohnSmith-zi9or Місяць тому
It's roughly 15,000Y or $100.
@hadriangonzalez607 Місяць тому
@fleetingimmersion sorry I'm just using my states, Texas, statistics. Not many Texans travel outside of Texas.
@fleetingimmersion Місяць тому
@@hadriangonzalez607 Ah, I see. Yeah I can see a lot of Texans not leaving the state that often. I live on the east coast (Virginia) and though it takes a few hours, we can cross several states in less than a day, which is useful to see some caverns or historical landmarks in nearby states, hence road trip.
@deanorr5378 Місяць тому
I'm a farmer who has a proposed highway planned through our rented land. It's weird for me to see other farmers against rail. If you oppose rail, you'll end up losing far more land to new and wider highways in the future. Not to mention that cars are also far more environmentally damaging and costly.
@Demopans5990 Місяць тому
Also thanks to highways, tons of farmland gets redeveloped into suburbs. The sort of zoning code that spreads everything out leads to more highways which leads to more congestion which leads to ever greater sprawl
@deanorr5378 Місяць тому
@Demopans5990 yes exactly, sprawl follows highways. It's an awful cycle. Rail built North America and gave us nice, vibrant walkable, economically productive downtowns. Why can't we have that again?
@MilwaukeeF40C Місяць тому
The population is peaking. What if any new sht is a waste?
@MilwaukeeF40C Місяць тому
deanorr5378 All of that existed before the government interfered in transportation and land use. So if you want that to come back, central planning, subsidies, and taxes need to be shtcanned.
@davidjackson7281 Місяць тому
@@MilwaukeeF40CTexas populat:on's boom:ng. lt should exceed 40 M by the early 2040s to become the most populous state.
@orlandoracer407 Місяць тому
So it's fine to tear down neighborhoods to build highways. But a high speed railway through a farm is an issue?🤨
@brianbarber5401 Місяць тому
Note: over a farm.
@isocarboxazid Місяць тому
Lady is like, "I'll fight for mysel-, uh, Texans! I'm fighting for Texans!" A handful of selfish, horrible people like that hold the entire country back. See also: billionaires.
@thndr_5468 Місяць тому
Right? We have to make sacrifices for the greater good and this is a great good. How can people be fine with adding yet another lane to a highway but not a single lane or two for a train?
@artchick07 Місяць тому
@@thndr_5468 Are you aware of how much farm land was lost building highways?! We are running out of useable farmland. We still need to eat.
@thndr_5468 Місяць тому
you obviously didn't understand my point. I'm saying people are fine with using land for highways but seem to vehemently hate any amount of land being used for trains which is silly@@artchick07
@russ_garcia Місяць тому
Currently sitting in standstill traffic on I-35 from Austin to San Antonio wishing we had high speed rail. PLEASE BUILD THIS.
@russ_garcia Місяць тому
Update now just moved for 100 yards at 3mph. Now standing still again on the highway…
@LaJulieOrtega Місяць тому
It’s such a pain to drive between the two cities, and we’re not even that far from each other 😢
@AD59669 Місяць тому
20 years ago, we used to drive 45 min from Live Oak (north of SA) to South of Austin...😂 I remember those days. My cousin used to live near riverside, and we used to drive back and forth.
@Orangeflava Місяць тому
Did you ever make it home?@russ_garcia
@rvw8066 Місяць тому
Wouldn’t do you any good lol
@TheTruthSeeker756 Місяць тому
Recently went to Europe and traveled on high speed rail. It was great. Very smooth. At times up to 186 mph. And then you get to a good sized city and you don’t need a car because they have a metro system that takes you everywhere and the trains run very frequently
@markanderson4163 Місяць тому
ever been on an inner-city bus lately???hahahah
@xpythonxx7771 Місяць тому
Amazing how much lobbying holds our country back
@mediocreman2 Місяць тому
The crazy thing is Southwest would have still been successful and would have adapted very quickly.
@aassure1936 Місяць тому
@@mediocreman2I can’t imagine many people are actually flying from city to city within Texas for any reason other than a connection, and in that case they wouldn’t be competing with the rail line.
@quazy1328 Місяць тому
You should see how much Amtrak lobbies to keep DART from building a high speed rail they have been trying to build since the early 2000's. Amtrak is afraid they will loose all of Texas to DART. Kinda embarrassing for a essentially government funded company to loose out to the private sector.
@Jewish.Hotdog Місяць тому
It's called corruption and bribery
@jasonhoman6525 Місяць тому
@@mediocreman2 in this situation there would be no competition. The problem is that if they give them ground to make progress and more rails link up, they may start to lose business on longer connections
@skolarii Місяць тому
"Berry's family has farmed this land for generations" shows land covered in weeds and dry patches with no signs of farming*
@BaoNguyen-un1km Місяць тому
She’s just holding out for the right price
@TheBooban Місяць тому
@@BaoNguyen-un1kmwell, Texas can just seize it.
@vascobranco5296 Місяць тому
That's not very democratic@@TheBooban
@Mike__B Місяць тому
The shot of her using a tool at 6:29 in the video also looks like she's doing it just for the video. I bet she has just enough growing to classify it as "farm land" for whatever tax breaks you might get in Texas. Those overhead shots showing the land with shrubs and trees (tall ones bigger than the homes, which are not of the fruit variety) and a tiny little portion which I would classify as a "garden plot", just to keep up the illusion that' it's a working farm.
@TheBooban Місяць тому
@@vascobranco5296 eminent domain, as mentioned in the video. Not democratic? Life is full of harsh realities.
@tobycueni3186 Місяць тому
Everyone who doesn't claim to want this, actually NEEDS this.
@remytron83 25 днів тому
Texas needs this.
@CTJM_Middleton 22 дні тому
Agreed.
@htconexify Місяць тому
Never understood why US is 50 years behind other developed nations in public transport. Bring this!
@beAsham3 Місяць тому
Car, Oil, and Airline lobbyists strong arming and using fear tactics over the years are the reason for this. Also, highway surveyors don't get paid by saying "yeah, highspeed rail makes more sense here than a lane widening project". They get paid by building more highway.
@fauxbro1983 Місяць тому
lol were not.
@hsko8007 Місяць тому
@@fauxbro1983 you just don't know how well-built it is in other countries... I can tell you that we are the best in many things but public transport certainly isn't one
@gOD_SmackED Місяць тому
@fauxbro1983, you're showing that you've never been outside the US...
@doujinflip Місяць тому
It's easier to get around on public transit in Dubai and Doha than in Dallas, and it's infamously car-centric in the Gulf States.
@johnchristensen7096 Місяць тому
Not only is this a positive for climate purposes, but this could also save Americans hundreds to thousands in car maintenance and gas, that’s what makes this appealing to me
@Slithermotion Місяць тому
High speed rail is more competing against airplanes then cars at least for the 200-400km mark. Regular public transit replaces daily commute e.g. bus, trains or metro.
@mrm7058 Місяць тому
Don't forget it also saves people's time, that would otherwise be wasted on congested highways.
@chickenfishhybrid44 Місяць тому
Kind of depends on the price of using the rail and how much driving a person may still have to do doesn't it?
@KJVirander Місяць тому
Which is exactly why it won’t happen. Lobbyists always get the final say
@Rennkartoffel258 Місяць тому
Not exactly super clean because it’s still gonna use coal and natural gas for the electricity, but yeah still a good improvement for the environment.
@populustremula7496 Місяць тому
The first bullet train in America will see huge numbers of riders for the sheer novelty effect alone.
@davidjackson7281 Місяць тому
But will they then continue riding beyond novelty?
@markanderson4163 Місяць тому
for the first week
@The_king567 Місяць тому
No it won’t it will go bankrupt in a year
@Dorito8052 Годину тому
@@The_king567 If the Shinkansen or TGV taught us anything, it would be a success.
@The_king567 19 хвилин тому
@@Dorito8052 prove it then
@JamesClark993311 Місяць тому
As a DFW resident I would absolutely love a high speed rail line here
@thedapperdolphin1590 Місяць тому
Texas contains several of the top 10 most populated cities in the U.S. They’re all simultaneously far enough apart that driving between them is a pain, but they’re close enough for high speed rail to be more efficient than flying. It’s a no brainer.
@Patmorgan235Us Місяць тому
The I35 corridor makes a lot more sense from a deisty stand point it has 3 major meteor areas and 2-3 minor ones. But construction would be more challenging as it's a lot more built up.
@kevinmccarthy2793 Місяць тому
@@Patmorgan235Us I-35 is essentially a giant parking lot on weekdays between 7am and 9am and 3pm and 7pm. We have a saying in north Austin. If you want to get to South Austin during South by Southwest, Austin City Limits, or racedays, then it's must faster to drive up to Oklahoma City, across to Denver, down to El Paso, follow the border to Brownsville, then come up through San Antonio than it is to drive I-35 south.
@rvw8066 Місяць тому
As in you must not have a brain to support it, sure
@DoneDealAC Місяць тому
She is really farming all that land with that tool??!! 6:27
@Modine. Місяць тому
No, that was just for the camera. I'm sure she has larger equipment for the farm.
@alexejvornoskov6580 Місяць тому
@@Modine. did you see how her farmland did look like? There doesnt seem to be any farming activity going on there at all.
@alexnorth757 Місяць тому
@@alexejvornoskov6580 probably one of the many people who file their taxes claiming their properties are farmland so they can avoid taxes.
@lours6993 Місяць тому
Probably a fake lobby group (‘astroturfing’ rather than ‘grass-roots’) set up and funded by big oil, auto and airline interests. That’s how they usually oppose HSR in the US.
@tnnsboy18 Місяць тому
@@alexnorth757 i def wanna do that ;D uncle sam is killing me with these taxes
@montielh Місяць тому
Time to modernize Texas!
@TheNewGreenIsBlue Місяць тому
@14:00 Tokyo to Osaka is 2h 22minutes by train... with a max speed of 285km/h and its fastest route makes 4 stops at Shinagawa, Yokohama, Nagoya, and Kyoto before terminating at Shin-Osaka. These trains run every 6-10 minutes during busy times. The 3.5hour quote is for the all-stops Kodama service... which only runs hourly. Texas HSR will be using a newer trainset on straighter tracks with only one stop at Brazos Valley and will travel up to 350km/h if I'm not mistaken.
@brightb3330 Місяць тому
stopping highspeed rail for a ugly patch of dirt is crazy work
@9876karthi Місяць тому
Lol as long as it is other's land we can talk s#it...
@SA-nu2so Місяць тому
6:30 She doesn’t even look like she know how to farm 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@coolboss999 Місяць тому
For a rotten shed that could easily be built better is also insane...
@alexnorth757 Місяць тому
@@SA-nu2so the aerial shots of her land and the like 3 crops she was digging around make her place look like a farm just like i and my 250lb gut make me look like an olympic athlete.
@The_king567 Місяць тому
They should ban it
@sojukyd Місяць тому
Everyone complains about traffic, adding lanes isn't the answer. Getting cars off the roads is. But America loves its cars.
@MilwaukeeF40C Місяць тому
Privatize everything.
@albertoclonado Місяць тому
They don’t love cars, they are held hostage to use their cars
@gamelord12 Місяць тому
@@MilwaukeeF40CPrivate transit has a really hard time making a profit for all sorts of reasons, but it's usually a great public investment for stimulating other economic activity. Roads aren't privatized either for the same reasons.
@josevillanueva9091 Місяць тому
You forgot trucks. They live their cars and WORSHIP their trucks. All this while complaining about gas prices.
@coke8077 Місяць тому
I love cars and driving but any alternative transport I’ll all for it. Less cars on the road the better.
@Aggie4life77 Місяць тому
High speed rail for Texas, Cali and the one from Atlanta to Charlotte would be an absolute game changer! I live in Dallas and being able to take a train down to Austin, San Antonio or Houston for a day would be amazing! They need to get this done ASAP! Also, i thing they should make car rentals for a single day more popular! You can use Uber, but some may want to have a car to venture around.
@arriagachris1 Місяць тому
17 years old. Born and have lived in Texas my whole life. I’ve never been on a train. Ever. I think I’d be cool.
@daviddandrige9461 7 годин тому
36 here, South Texas born never experienced a train ride in Texas. Not until I flew to Africa and rode on their trains from Nairobi to Mombasa about 10 years ago. Its shocking that what we consider a third world country they are more ahead of us. Texas sure could benefit a high speed railway system.
@pklukeram Місяць тому
The United States desperately needs more transit. Faster, cheaper, and environmentally friendly! Texas is the perfect state to adopt a high speed network. Bring it!
@jonathanvaldivia6315 Місяць тому
It’s already happening in FL
@johnnybaz959 Місяць тому
Hell yea!!! Bring It!!!!
@harambe2552 Місяць тому
lol imagine thinking this bullet train would be actually cheap. Prepare to pay $150+ per ticket one way
@tibbers3755 Місяць тому
@@harambe2552 cheaper than air in my experience
@The_king567 Місяць тому
No we definitely don’t
@dannovikoff8454 Місяць тому
fun fact: the Japanese HSR system was controversial during its inception due to it massively over budget and was incredibly delayed. It is now a model for the rest of the world. These things cost money and take forever but in 40 years everyone will love them. Those who like driving will love it because less people will drive!
@MilwaukeeF40C Місяць тому
The rest of the world has also studied the Japanese model of debt spending to GDP for 40 years. The conclusion? Not really recommended.
@roro4787 Місяць тому
Lol Japanese highspeed trains pales in comparison to what China has achieved! I mean now China's high speed rails are the golden standard.
@MilwaukeeF40C Місяць тому
roro4787 Gold standard of what? What is superior? And do you want China governance?
@aidanmccarthy9249 Місяць тому
And nobody talks about how it went over budget. Just how awesome the trains are.
@TheStickCollector Місяць тому
@@roro4787 Ah yes, the country where the government is literally behind everything that is made there. It is easy for them to invest however much money needed to get it going to make it look good. I would say for a private model japanese rails are as good as you will get. Doesn't excuse whatever basically abandoned lines they cut but I suppose if they truly were derogated why keep them?
@atpecina6048 Місяць тому
As someone who has lived in SA, Waco, and Austin.. please include the WHOLE triangle. Not just Dallas & Houston!!!
@TheHornet44 Місяць тому
I imagine they plan to but it’s one step at a time
@thrillhax Місяць тому
We used the Shinkansen system in Japan for the first time this year. The convenience and how it’s stress-less is amazing. People also need to realize that if you miss your train, you can just get on the next one (you’d lose your reserved seats, but still have the ability to get on the unreserved cars)
@derekkuhl Місяць тому
The last mile problem has to be solved. In Houston, this has to connect to the light rail and there has to be a large parking lot at the terminus for those who the light rail is not convenient. This would be an unbelievable development for business. Reducing the commute to an hour between these two cities would open up incredible possibilities. The economic impact would far exceed the dollars spent.
@eddyr1041 Місяць тому
An hour? That would practically join those cities into 1😊
@edrupp2318 Місяць тому
"The last mile problem has to be solved". Exactly. For high speed rail to be successful in Texas, it has to connect downtown business centers, IMHO.
@Patmorgan235Us Місяць тому
METRO already has a bunch of projects to build a transit center and BRT to the Houston station. A light rail connection is on the road map but not currently funded.
@Demopans5990 Місяць тому
@eddyr1041 In many ways, thanks to Amtrak, the NE Corridor is one massive city.
@cruisinguy6024 Місяць тому
The problem is the Houston light rail is an utter joke, and has been for some time. Like, how does it still not connect to at least IAH??? Texas has a massive transportation infrastructure deficiency.
@henrylarson Місяць тому
As someone who lives and commutes in Texas we DESPERATELY NEED RAIL here 😭
@sih9696 15 днів тому
A real High-Speed train (not like the one in India) is genuinely convenient! Heard of the Indonesian High-Speed train?
@mnaeseth24 Місяць тому
This would benefit so much on my work. I hate having to drive 4hrs here or 6hrs there. Loosing thousands of dollars depreciation on my cars. This project is a no brainer why it hasn’t lift off ???
@nishinasuno Місяць тому
I love riding the Shinkansen.
@Perich29 Місяць тому
more likely be Avelia Liberty if Amtrak takes over.
@TrainFanFinland Місяць тому
@@Perich29 When considering how badly Alstom has performed with building Avelias for NEC, I don't think Amtrak is buying anything from Alstom anytime soon.
@MilwaukeeF40C Місяць тому
Add them to the blacklist with Bombardier.
@Yowzoe Місяць тому
🚆I loved it too, my Japanese hosts were so proud of it 30 years ago. You would think the guy that narrates this otherwise insightful mini-doc would spend one minute to learn its proper pronunciation!
@davidpaz9389 Місяць тому
High speed rail in the US needs to happen. Not only is it another option for travellers, which is always a plus, but other modes must compete for those dollars.
@308_Negra_Arroyo_Lane Місяць тому
Even if it does happen it will only be 1 or 2 short lines at most. The US will NEVER get a network like China.
@davidpaz9389 Місяць тому
@@308_Negra_Arroyo_Lane I wouldn't put too much stock in how China does things. They construct colossal buildings, rail networks, etc in astounding time frames. But what might have been sacrificed for speed?
@juiceontheloose123 Місяць тому
@@davidpaz9389 China's HSR system is the greatest network of transportation in the history of mankind. nothing compares to its quality and quantity
@spyderlogan4992 Місяць тому
Good, build it in your backyard then...
@davidpaz9389 Місяць тому
@@spyderlogan4992 The county, state, US, and interstate highways we all use were built in someone's backyard. If you live in TX like I do the reservior you fish and boat in flooded someone's backyard.
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@Meerkat17 Місяць тому
Good luck. Airlines and car companies are gonna do their best to deter this project.
@pbilk Місяць тому
At 1:33, does she think that she is fighting for Texans by preventing alternative modes of travel. She is actually fighting against that grandmother that can't drive anymore who wants to visit their family or that teen who can't afford an automobile. We need critical voices to prevent things going out of control like costs and environmental concerns but opposing voices like hers hurts everyone. Especially since it seems to come from a lack of understanding of the benefits over the disadvantages.
@aassure1936 Місяць тому
Exactly, she’s fighting against the worker who can’t afford a car who wants to visit their family, the grandparent who can no longer drive safely, the businessman/woman who can leave for a business trip in the morning and be back the same night to spend time with their family. She’s only fighting for herself and that joke she calls a farm.
@rvw8066 Місяць тому
Oh look a non Texan who doesn’t care about anyone but himself. Howdy.
@taxthechurches946 Місяць тому
Ask the people in Europe or Asia if they regret having High Speed Rail.
@SalmanMentos Місяць тому
Not at all (Whoosh is the name of my country's HSR💀)
@jonathanpicket124 Місяць тому
People in the US don't seem to understand how to adopt what works well in other countries... it's infuriating.
@JohnSmith-zi9or Місяць тому
@@jonathanpicket124 "People in the US don't seem to understand how to adopt what works well in other countries... it's infuriating." People in other countries don't have the same economic outcomes as we do in the USA. But, we can raise YOUR taxes if you want to pay for HSR.
@jonathanpicket124 Місяць тому
@@JohnSmith-zi9or You’re absolutely right that “People in other countries don't have the same economic outcomes as we do in the USA.” We have the 7th highest GDP per capita among all countries, yet our social spending isn’t even top 20. So, what good is that high GDP doing the average person? There are far more countries with a lower income disparity, happier, more educated, and a more free populace. We are not the best at anything other than producing a strong military (it’s not even a fair comparison considering how much we spend on our “defense” budget). So, alluding to the idea that we are the best and that it's because of our high GDP is downright idiotic. How about we raise YOUR taxes to pay for the national highway system that’s falling apart? We pay far more just to maintain that oil and gas subsidy than we spend on any rail infrastructure.
@JohnSmith-zi9or Місяць тому
@@jonathanpicket124 "So, alluding to the idea that we are the best and that it's because of our high GDP is downright idiotic. " No, you did. We can have all of those things, we just need to raise everyone's taxes to 30-45% like those countries. Nobody has better outcomes than the USA. It is why everyone wants to come here. However, you have the freedom to be an idiot, to be of poor health, to live in poverty. That's the difference.
@nahbro696 Місяць тому
Im so glad the comment section is full of fellow texans that are begging for the railways to get built. When I was a kid I took a train ride up to Dallas and even to this day the route still picks you up at 7:00 a.m. from San Antonio and you don't get to Dallas until 3:00 p.m. You're better off driving then taking the train. Getting back home is equally bad as you have to leave Dallas. I think around 4: 00pm and don't get home till like 10:00 pm. There's also only one train per day that goes from San Antonio to Dallas. So if you miss 7:00 a.m. train you have to wait until the next one or just drive /fly
@Micnanimous2U Місяць тому
I really want to experience this new opportunity to travel around America on this new system, I'm all for it. But, I also understand the land owner concerns. Hopefully they can come to some kind of agreement 😊!! Thank you!! Mic'2024
@Micnanimous2U Місяць тому
Give the landowners part stock investment into the projects for consideration ❤!! Thank you!! Mic'2024 😊!!
@firepower01 Місяць тому
Good to see Andy Byford working on this. He was great when he was running the TTC in Toronto.
@lordgemini2376 Місяць тому
Andy Byford is a god. He's been great running things everywhere he's been!
@KrishnaAdettiwar Місяць тому
Andy Byford also saved the MTA while he worked in NYC. NYC loved him so much that he’s well known across the city as Train Daddy and there are murals across the city for him 😂 so glad he’s working at Amtrak now to help push this!
@NotaPizzaGRL Місяць тому
@@KrishnaAdettiwarWasn't Andy Byford driven out of the MTA? He didn't seem to be there very long.
@KrishnaAdettiwar 26 днів тому
@@NotaPizzaGRL he wasn’t driven out, the governor (Andrew Cuomo) kept meddling with Andy’s plans and didn’t allow Andy to run the MTA independently. Cuomo would apparently start leaving Andy off important meetings at the state level which directly involved the MTA, but would include Andy’s direct reports. Apparently it was this whole mess, Andy didn’t get the support he needed and kept having to fight his way through Cuomo for even basic things at some point, and he eventually left
@CJWJR Місяць тому
I have found that opponents of the system have never ridden a high speed train. I loved riding the AVE in Spain when I studied there in 2007. It took two and a half hours to go from Sevilla to Madrid, and that was with three stops. (There are even non-stop express trains, which expedite travel times even more.) Even with high speed rail, we will still need planes and cars, but at least it will give us a much better option for traveling regional distances.
@SgtKaneGunlock Місяць тому
TBF there are down sides to public transportation BUT it almost always offset by the numerous benefits to society
@VSNxx Місяць тому
I lived in Japan and travelled many times on the Shinkansen (bullet train in Japanese) from Nagoya downtown to Tokyo downtown in 1.5 hour. It was wonderful, fast and very convenient. No brainer if well done, believe me.
@Nalehw Місяць тому
I like this Andy Byford guy. He seems well-spoken and passionate, knows the key arguments (like the distance sweet spot), and is aware of the state of the issue not just in his own country but internationally (see the comment about highways getting easier subsidies). Dunno his track record but it's a good first impression. Would've liked to see slightly more about the pros/cons of the Dallas terminus versus the Fort Worth extension.
@MrMikeDao Місяць тому
I was a teen when I first heard about this project now I have a house and a wife. I'll be using this in spirit by the time this finishes
@SirSayakaMikiThe3rd Місяць тому
"I will continue to impede any progress" is what she meant to say.
@rvw8066 Місяць тому
Nothing about this is progress.
@SirSayakaMikiThe3rd Місяць тому
@@rvw8066 I imagine if you had ever left Texas and visited places like Japan, France, Italy, Switzerland, etc. You would recognize why what you are saying is just stupid. I know it must be hard to understand when you don't travel outside much, but to people who have to commute, we prefer not dealing with extreme congestion.
@nahor88 Місяць тому
@@rvw8066 I guess it wasn't progress when internet companies got you connected on your little hick farm huh?
@howled0 21 день тому
@@rvw8066 Then dont complain when Texas begins to pile up traffic like whats happening in California. Dont blame it on the californians! Blame it on people like you!
@Penultimeat Місяць тому
High speed rail my beloved. As a Texan, please make it happen.
@camillea4665 25 днів тому
I've lived in Texas all my life and wish there was a highspeed rail. That lady doesn't speak for us. WE NEED IT.
@CreepahKillahRSA Місяць тому
PLEASE MAKE THIS HAPPEN
@stevechance150 Місяць тому
Southwest Airlines: "Noooooooo!!!".
@Perich29 Місяць тому
@@stevechance150 No body wants to fly on the POS 737 MAX. Ground transportation are lot safer than air travel.
@buildintotrains Місяць тому
@@Perich29 statistically speaking, air travel is still far safer than nearly all ground travel. THAT BEING SAID: I think trains are way cooler
@evaluateanalysis7974 Місяць тому
@@Perich29"Ground transportation are lot safer than air travel." with the possible exception of the MAX, that is completely untrue.
@devinrr Місяць тому
@@evaluateanalysis7974 except the extent of damage with the max was a door falling out.. at least in the US
@JACING80 Місяць тому
14:12 Fastest train from Tokyo to Osaka actually takes only 2.5 hours, not 3.5 stated in the video. In reality it's a huge difference. CNBC should supposedly be good at numbers...
@TheDaexiled1 Місяць тому
Start with a simple one, from Fort Worth to Dallas an back alongside I-30, that there would cut DFW's traffic by over 20%, even a monorail would be something
@letis9541 Місяць тому
Honestly as a Texan, i hate treaveling on the open road. Nothing but endless concrete. Dangerous as well.
@The_king567 Місяць тому
No you don’t
@Demopans5990 Місяць тому
@The_king567 It's like driving in NYC traffic, but at 60+. And with more pickups everywhere. At least you can be reasonably sure what the cars around you will be doing as you drive in NYC, that is, staying still
@railfannerryan Місяць тому
@@The_king567bros trying to control people💀
@The_king567 Місяць тому
@@railfannerryan yes
@railfannerryan Місяць тому
@@The_king567 based on your response I can assume you’re a spoiled gen alpha brat with unrestricted internet access
@Pensyfan19 Місяць тому
Great to see another CNBC Video about trains, it's been a good minute. No matter how expensive startup construction costs may be for anything rail related, it's always worth building since it takes up less land and will be connecting millions of people on a daily basis. Also, several highway projects have exponentially higher costs, yet are still getting endless funding from the U.S. government, so it's not fair to complain about rail which has more benefits while much more destructive highways are being built with almost no vocal opposition.
@mvmlego1212 Місяць тому
"Exponentially higher" with respect to what variable? Distance? Passenger capacity?
@SantiagotheManchecutioner Місяць тому
As someone who occasionally has to commute to Dallas from Houston, this has been needed for years. It is way too time-consuming and costly to go back and forth for businesses, and people
@JohnSmith-zi9or Місяць тому
This video should have done its due diligence in reporting why Texas Central abruptly stopped this project despite winning the supreme court ruling on imminent domain. It was because the estimated costs ballooned to $30B and the estimated ridership by independent analysts was only 1.4M people per year. They greatly over estimated the expected revenue and profits.
@DRockafeller Місяць тому
This how you make America great ..... Doing something positive and productive
@JohnSmith-zi9or Місяць тому
Would you vote for Trump if he announced HSR between city pairs that make sense?
@The_king567 Місяць тому
This is actually terrible
@brucehicks5817 Місяць тому
From San Antonio and high speed rail in Texas is something my friends and I talk about regularly. This should have happened years ago. 35, 45, and 10 + Southwest Airlines can't be the only options for a state with this much growth.
@LaJulieOrtega Місяць тому
The plane ✈️ tickets are hella expensive too!
@Nomad1iQ Місяць тому
We do need it from Dallas to Houston
@bearowen5480 Місяць тому
The reason Japan's and Europe's super high speed rail systems are so successful is that they connect major metropolitan centers that are relatively close together. Intercity travel times are competitive with air transport and freeway drive times. The most obvious travel market area to benefit from bullet train rail service would be the American northeastern corridor connecting Washington DC, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. AMTRAK serves that corridor now with relatively fast "Acela" trains limited mostly to speeds of less than 100 mph. Yet, it is the only AMTRAK segment that is profitable. Even at slower speeds, compared to Japan's Shinkansen trains traveling at over 200 mph, AMTRAK is faster and more convenient than competing airline service when factoring in airport to city center drive or light rail times, and the two hour airport congestion and security wait times at departure airports. On the NE corridor, bullet trains on dedicated trackage would make economic sense, as perhaps also between large metro areas like Houston, San Antonio, and Dallas Fort Worth. I am skeptical though about the wisdom of locating the termini outside city business districts which will force passengers to navigate to city centers through suburban and inner city congestion. That's not faced by travelers on the northeast corridor, since they are deposited in city center terminals. So, super fast trains are not the silver bullet to transform America's intercity transportation system, but between certain high density population city pairs it makes sense. The danger, especially in liberty loving America, is when politics rather than economics dictate routing of the projected system. When that happens you get the mess you see in California with unsustainable cost overruns and trains to nowhere! You can also see similar problems in the cost overrun disaster in Britain's similar attempt to build high speed rail north from London. So beware, Texas!
@user-ze8fr9tr3h Місяць тому
I'd argue most Japanese people don't give a sh*t about the environment in terms of travel, taking the Shinkansen is simply the best and logical option for traveling between some cities (e.g. Tokyo to Nagoya, Fukuoka to Kumamoto, etc.)
@lysandertavish1684 Місяць тому
what sources are you pulling this from? Japanese culture and society has always been very trash aware and waste management minded for the citizens, so this is the first I've heard of such a claim being argued
@bz-om1pu Місяць тому
The Japanese poured tens of thousands of tons of nuclear-contaminated water into the sea. Is this what you call Japanese culture?@@lysandertavish1684
@BrotherCheng Місяць тому
That's not a bad thing. You want to align people's incentives with the public good. Otherwise you are forcing people to make a hard choice every time they travel.
@friedzombie4 Місяць тому
lol agreed, especially if you've been to the local combini and all the produce including apples and bananas are in plastic
@TheVlad434 Місяць тому
@@lysandertavish1684oh really? Google minamata disease then
@fire9110 Місяць тому
Air travel is quickly becoming overwhelmed and unreliable. Time to invest in rail in America!
@TheRandCrews Місяць тому
yep especially with that Southwest fiasco during Christmas, and ongoing horrible incidents in flights
@benwalter4842 Місяць тому
Not to mention the recent Boeing crisis.
@daviddandrige9461 7 годин тому
As a person at age 36 who lives in south Texas & would love to visit San Antonio through Dallas then Houston & back more frequently. It shocks me to this day that we don’t have a high speed passenger railway system. Going by my own vehicle or by bus is a hassle & going by plane is expensive. I’m sad that I probably won’t be alive to see the railway system to be completed in my lifetime.
@533Hernandezgabriel Місяць тому
I have to drive 4hours to Austin from Dallas and then 4hours back almost twice a month... A train is what I've been asking for!
@_BSH_1971 Місяць тому
Please bring the high speed rail to Texas. It will be amazing to have this service.
@ponuni Місяць тому
nothing will get done in America because before you get something done you have to ask someone's grandma and then their grandma has to ask somebody elses' grandma and the cycle goes on forever.
@brendanzhang7488 Місяць тому
and bc you cant grab land whenever u feel like it, when u buy land, landowner who don't wanna sell push prices up and also stupid construction laws
@chickenfishhybrid44 Місяць тому
It will eventually
@rushrush1209 Місяць тому
Yes, there's always the Not In My Backyard supporters. I understand their concerns to a certain extent.
@CharBar07 Місяць тому
Sounds like damn if you do, damn if you don’t.
@paulis7319 Місяць тому
That's what happens when you don't live in a communist/socialist country. We actually have the right to say "no" to anyone wanting to use our land. sure it's inconvenient sometimes, but it beats being forced by daddy govt to give up our land.
@Relikvien Місяць тому
Hope you succeed! Cheers from Norway!
@keylor512 Місяць тому
We SERIOUSLY need this! Idk what that lady smoking.
@leonardcriner1193 Місяць тому
I rode the high speed train while I worked in China, loved it. I wish we get it Done here in TEXAS!
@ruzzelladrian907 Місяць тому
Texas would benefit greatly with high speed rail, their zoning laws are much lenient, land there is cheap, and it's mostly flat with major cities. But most Americans don't get the value of trains, even though it is a necessary public utility in a country. The United States, despite problems with cost of living and wealth inequality, it is still a first-world country. And the semblance of a first-country is great public transportation, such as, trains. In my opinion, for Americans to be conditioned to supporting high speed rail, which is more expensive than regular rail systems, metro systems should be built in cities first. Because building high speed rail that connect major cities is a good idea, however the benefits don't immediately reach a larger number of people, as people will prefer to drive instead to not be hassled on renting a vehicle once they reach their destination. A robust metro system like Tokyo's system put in place in America cities would immediately sell the future of rail in the country, because the product would be speed and convenience. Once die-hard car people experience that, they might change their views on public transportation into supporting rail. The current narrative of die-hard car loving Americans is that it is political, trains equate Liberals, Socialism, and Leftist, while cars and highways mean freedom, patriotism, and Right-Wing. It is rather strange why it's like that. It should be a point of national pride if the country has a robust transportation system, regardless where you lie on the political spectrum. The United States, as first-world country, is lagging behind on public transportation compared to other countries. And this should be fixed.
@compugasm Місяць тому
In fact, USA is the world leader in train transport. But we transport cargo, not people. Our rail lines span the entire country, east to west, north to south. And it usually travels in the rural areas where you don't see it. Because it's is more cost efficient to fill cars full of goods, then partially full of people. No surprise that Amtrak is wholly owned by the government, and makes the case that rail "isn't a factor" to our society, while the exact opposite is true. More government lies.
@TheBooban Місяць тому
If you use train to the city, you arrive with no car. Stuck. Video already showed the tracks stop outside the city. High speed rail is the ultimate public transport. But all the other bits gotta be done first.
@Makko404 Місяць тому
@@compugasmIt's so odd how you recognize how valuable rail lines are yet can't seem the grasp at simple things such as scope and demand. No one's proposing to connect California and New York via rail. All people want is just a short segment of that cargo rail distance to be between their cities in a singular state so they don't have to drive several hours or buy a expensive plane ticket for just for leisure or work.
@compugasm Місяць тому
@@Makko404 _All people want is just a short segment of that cargo rail distance_ That is the biggest problem. This short rail benefits a small segment of the population, and requires actual billions of dollars. The road budget too, is billions of dollars, yet benefits the entire state. This short line, is nothing more than the plaything of rich people to attend football games, and buy trinkets at gift shops hundreds of miles away. Nobody commutes hundreds of miles to work. We can't have "walkable neighborhoods" while simultaneously transporting people hundreds of miles away to attend school. This isn't sustainable.
@AwesomeHairo Місяць тому
The U.S is not a first world country.
@L0LrevneD Місяць тому
The irony of many American’s sentiment against transit and HSR is that they argue it takes away their freedom. When in actuality, their “freedom” (cars), is forced onto the public, including people who may not want to or can’t afford a car.
@conorreynolds9739 Місяць тому
As an American, this irony is so frustrating. My own family, “progressive” people I work with, racial justice advocates locally, all act like anything other than driving infrastructure is a waste of taxpayer dollars.
@sanchorim8014 Місяць тому
These same people go through invasive and inconvemient airport security lines to squeeze themselves into flying sardine cans. Planes are a net benefit, but if you have no problem with them, spare me the "freedom" line, because air travel is very restrictive.
@MilwaukeeF40C Місяць тому
What if I want freedom from ANYTHING subsidized at my expense, causing inflation?
@L0LrevneD Місяць тому
@@MilwaukeeF40C Have you seen the price of cars lately? Talk about inflation at one’s expense.
@Zombiexm Місяць тому
@@MilwaukeeF40C Okay. Lets stop subsidizing Energy, and oil companies and enjoy paying for that 12-15 dollar /gal gas. :)
@alejandrohernandez7340 Місяць тому
As a Texan, driving to one city to another is a lifestyle and culture down here, especially from Houston to San Antonio where Buc-ee's is a one stop shop.
@dolliare495 Місяць тому
this is absolutely necessary and would be a massive change for the better in not just texas - but also pushing for the expansion of high speed rail across all of the USA
@BirbarianHomeGuard Місяць тому
Wild that one of the most conservative states has a city with a super long light rail network.
@charlesball6519 Місяць тому
Dallas is not a conservative city. Fort Worth is, that's why they don't have a light rail system.
@LucianLusilver Місяць тому
As a someone who plans to travel down to Houston in the summer, 90 min beats 4-5hr drive
@tonybehere7792 Місяць тому
If this is built this will be great for other industries including fashion and the rest of the arts
@Humanprx Місяць тому
As a Southern Californian, i'm amazed how Texans in these comments see so eager for High Speed rail. Everyone where I live hates the idea, but I do believe connecting cities this way really revolutionizes local economies. Especially with out housing crisis here, I know so many peope would rather live somewhere more affordable but still be able to visit their home cities or just be able to travel freely between major cities without sitting through traffic or needing to buy a plane ticket. Anecdotally, I took the train/bus route from San Diego to San Francisco last year and it took roughly 14 hours, sitting in really dinky buses and trains. I just googled it and a bullet train would only take 3 hours to go from LA to San Fran, thats insane. We need HSR bad
@underratedbub Місяць тому
Let's make America the rail world leader again!
@bin.s.s. Місяць тому
Then you have 3+ leaders to surpass before seeing the taillight of China.
@here-i-am2316 Місяць тому
Costs too much. Have you seen how much it costs per foot ?
@wiley-harris-anderson Місяць тому
@@here-i-am2316Yeah moron that's how it works. You build expensive rail so the cost per mile of anything running on it is extremely low.
@WakandaleezaRazz Місяць тому
@@here-i-am2316Have you seen how much we give Ukraine?
@Jet2880 Місяць тому
@@here-i-am2316 have you researched how much it cost to make and operate a road. Comparable and a rail is less damaging to the environment. No run off, less noise, less space consumed. There are other forces in play that won’t let this happen.
@connorrichmond5115 Місяць тому
Houston to Dallas in an hour would be insane - I have a ton of friends in Dallas I never get to see bc I hate I-45 N. It feels ridiculous that it takes 3+ hours to get to Dallas from Houston by car.
@S0ulEaTeR1012 Місяць тому
This should already be a thing. Insane that it is such a struggle.
@notaspectator Місяць тому
Its such a chill to take trains in Europe, I think America can do even better. Excited to see sweet trains and new jobs in US.
@The_king567 Місяць тому
No we don’t want trains here
@notaspectator 26 днів тому
@@The_king567 There is much more than you in "we". Just curious if you've tried any train system (not even a high speed) and perhaps you saw a way they can improve or made your life more chill? FYI I do appreciate the car life too.
@The_king567 26 днів тому
@@notaspectator I have I have wrote a train before that’s how I know. They are bad
@Luke_Go Місяць тому
28.6 million passengers per year? Wow!!! The tiny nation of Switzerland has more than that every month.....
@gerhardma4297 Місяць тому
Most Muricans don't even find Switzerland on a map than understand the principle of public transport
@hackbrettschorsch6855 Місяць тому
And Eurostar carries around 10m passengers per year between Paris and London. Obviously a dense rail network has much higher passenger numbers than a single point to point connection…
@nombretaken9467 Місяць тому
you’re comparing a state to a country 😭 i’d get if you compared a canton to state or a city to a city but like an entire country? plus it’s not a network like the mta is and that gets billions of people per year it’s pretty obvious it won’t be used by every single person and tourist between those two cities 😭
@mannidennis1031 Місяць тому
@@gerhardma4297lol 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
@Luke_Go Місяць тому
@@nombretaken9467 The 28.6 million Amtrak passengers are in all of the US. Texas has 30 million inhabitants (Switzerland has a third of that). The MTA has 1.8b passengers/year - all of Switzerland has a similar number, but half the population of metropolitan New York. No matter how you try to spin it, it doesn't look good for TX, NY, or the US.
@aiden359 Місяць тому
As a Californian, this seems like an easy way for Texas and Florida politicians to brag about how much better their states are at completing large infrastructure projects.
@MichaelfromtheGraves Місяць тому
California High Speed Rail will be the state's biggest bragging point in 10 years
@tranquil14738 Місяць тому
Yeah and ppl hate California over here so it’s really shocking to me people don’t just want to do it just to stick to yall lmao And like jokes aside high speed rail for the Texas triangle is legitimately the perfect place to put it. Clean air conditioned roomy comfortable cheap transport across the Texas triangle is like what we need
@GoAgainstTheOdds Місяць тому
Well at least we were the ones to build the train itself right here in california
@JohnSmith-zi9or Місяць тому
@@GoAgainstTheOdds You're FAR from being done building.
@JohnSmith-zi9or Місяць тому
@@MichaelfromtheGraves Merced to Bakersfield .. yeah, bragging points. And you're lucky if it's done by 2033. That's when they're projecting but they're still almost $100 billion short. Good luck.
@stephensundet8472 Місяць тому
I want Dallas, Houston, AND San Antonio connected by high speed rail!!!!! In Japan it's AMAZING. Unbelievably quiet and smooth, and way safer and FASTER than highway. I'm 110% for it. We need dependable, safe, environmentally friendly transportation in Texas!!!
@gabrielalvarado1504 Місяць тому
This would be amazing not only for everyday Texas travelers. But would be great for everyone's pockets. You save on car maintenance potential insurance claims on said vehicle. And you save time on commute also imagine shipping rates could lower as well. Now Texas is so large that rail branches out to its northeast and northwest etc etc would be a welcome addition.
@EvanBlack11 Місяць тому
I hope the people like the lady who has the farm reads these comments. She said she would fight for Texans, but what you are fighting for is solely your needs and wrapping it together in a noble cause. If you really want to fight for Texans support a train that would take 1000's of people out of a car preventing serious or fatal crashes each day, week, month or year.
@doujinflip Місяць тому
Car crashes are a "personal problem", just like every other inconvenient conception.
@EvanBlack11 Місяць тому
@@doujinflip Sorry im lost on what you mean. I would love for you to explain more.
@jasonreed7522 Місяць тому
@@EvanBlack11they are explaining the mindset you are arguing against. The real issue is that big buisness lobbies like the airlines, car companies, and oil industry would all lose money because of the HSR. Any organization named "Americans against X" in always a supported by a huge company/financial group, typically the same one.
@EvanBlack11 Місяць тому
@@jasonreed7522 thanks you two are so correct.
@hadriangonzalez607 Місяць тому
That lady gets a tax credit from the government for her "farm". I have a friend that has little livestock here in Texas and gets a sizable tax credit for his farm as well.
@KWally Місяць тому
As a Canadian, North America is so behind with transportation due to our complete ignorance of high speed rail over the past few decades.
@loganleroy8622 Місяць тому
No it's because the country is so much bigger and everything is so much more spread out. It's far easier for other countries to invest in their HSR because they are so much smaller and people can actually experience the benefit of new rail lines put in. It's much harder to ask someone in Edmonton to pay more in taxes just so someone in Montreal doesn't have to drive to Toronto
@gerhardma4297 Місяць тому
@@loganleroy8622 You're right about the vastness and distances in the USA and Canada, but plan and realize a high-speed line in densely populated Germany or Japan where it feels like there's a town, a low mountain range or a castle in the way every 5 km. It's all relative my friend. 😉
@loganleroy8622 Місяць тому
@@gerhardma4297 It's precisely because Germany and Japan are densely populated that HSR makes more sense. In the US and Canada, everything and everyone is spread out. Driving on wide open flat roads is relaxing, driving through a mountain pass is stressful. Much more likely to convince someone to take a train to the other side of a mountain than to drive there.
@MarioFanGamer659 Місяць тому
@@loganleroy8622 How in the world do the many towns benefit the HSL which passes through them with no station whatsoever?
@loganleroy8622 Місяць тому
@@MarioFanGamer659 They don’t.
@carolinelacy242 Місяць тому
The newest leg of Japan's HSR system actually just opened 2 days ago (the Hokuriku Shinkansen expansion from Kanazawa to Tsuruga), so I can now get to Tokyo from my podunk backwater boonie town in under 3 hours on just one train. The opening of the Shinkansen coincided with a huge local renewal project, including lots of new small businesses, expansion of local transportation options, tourism programs, and general beautification efforts, meaning that the trains have tons of trickle-down benefits for everyone in the community. But japan doesn't just try to incentivize using public transit-- they definitely DEincentivize driving with astronomical, nigh-unavoidable highway tolls. When factoring in gas and tolls, it would be way cheaper for me to take the train to Tokyo than it would be to drive. All this to say.... Japan is aeons ahead of the US, and it pains whenever I cast my thoughts back home and think of how much worse off I'll be whenever I return.
@glendamico9004 Місяць тому
We need high speed rail like yesterday! And it needs to start in San Antonio and go up to either Dallas or Houston so I can go see my Cowboys and Texans play! And everybody can come down and watch the Spurs! 😊😊😊
@ThatLittleTexanWoman Місяць тому
I have lived in Texas my whole life and I don’t know of any major city in Texas where people associate public transport with convenience or safety, especially at night. That is a major reason why Texans prefer cars. If the light rail planners want public support they need to go work on the existing public transport systems in Texas and prove to the public they can be made more efficient and more safe. Until then, I don’t see many average people clamoring to use a train that will begin and end in difficult to navigate cities.
@jescorpizo7614 Місяць тому
Safety is one thing but the infrastructure is so hard to change. If you notice in Houston, Metro doesn’t even cover all quads efficiently. It’s hard to make routes when the streets within the loops barely leave enough space for more bus routes. If only we can replace the land barriers on the roads with a rail, that would be nice
@KrishnaAdettiwar Місяць тому
It’s not the public transportation agencies in Texas that is the issue. It’s the local and state politics of Texas and the public transportation agencies that have to fight TXDOT every step of the way, just to provide basic service. The agencies are trying everything they can, TXDOT and local + state govt just makes it incredibly difficult for anything other than automobile infrastructure to be built in Texas
@jonathanpicket124 Місяць тому
I live in Houston and take the light rail and busses fairly regularly and many times late at night (after a sporting event downtown, for instance). The issue that you're referring to is easily solved by actually employing someone (decent job added to the local economy) to check tickets rather than just having metro officers standing around at some of the platforms. The light rail has basically become free to use because nobody ever checks if you have a ticket. This is such an easy fix. But, as with anything public transit related, TxDOT simply doesn't want to fix it. They want the light rail to look dirty and unsafe so that fewer people will be willing to use it... because that's what the lobbyists want. Despite that, the light rail is completely packed during morning and evening rush hour as well as before and after games (Rockets, Astros, Dynamo, etc.) downtown. Expanding the light rail, especially to the airport and suburbs, would generate a ridiculous amount of use and go a long way toward alleviating the ridiculous traffic congestion we have here. More rail in many US cities, but especially one like Houston is a no-brainer!
@Lucky_9705 Місяць тому
They can
@W4ng4n470r Місяць тому
A trip from Dallas to Houston to watch the game and go home afterwards sounded nice, then it goes to mention that the line would stop at a place that's nowhere near the Juice Box much less NRG stadium. As the saying goes, "Houston is 2 hours away from Houston" that 60 minute ride from DTX to HTX plus the commute with the pretty much non-existing public transportation system would mean a much longer commute than you'd think. That being said, it's still infrastructure that is desperately needed, for the urban population that is.
@portcybertryx222 Місяць тому
It’s nice to see Andy Byford back! He has laid the groundwork for
@Kenjm1 Місяць тому
Please make this happen for all major cities in America🙏🏼
@The_king567 Місяць тому
No let’s never make this happen
@Chris-md1cf Місяць тому
Just build trains in the middle of every highway system like Brightline West. Imagine how many people would stop driving when they see a train go by them at 150+ mph every day on their way to work!
@speakingofgreg Місяць тому
Not only would it be a top-tier advertisement, but it would also help avoid expensive right-of-way purchases from private landowners.
@Chris-md1cf Місяць тому
@@speakingofgreg Agreed, no use arguing with the woman who wants to protect her farm. Just take two lanes away from the cars. There's still 10+ left for them!
@SalmanMentos Місяць тому
But how are we going to build the station? Do we just put platforms and stairs?
@duramaxadventures5832 Місяць тому
@@SalmanMentosexactly
@anewhope1827 28 днів тому
This should have been done YEARS ago. Traffic in central Texas is HELL ON EARTH. You are guaranteed to crawl on 35. 10 is a death trap. SA to Austin shouldn't take two hours.
@johnnewton4659 Місяць тому
As a sales rep that cover the whole state this would make my life so much easier!
@rvw8066 Місяць тому
I guess if you only cover Dallas and Houston and live in one of those two cities. Hope someone isn’t forced to sell their land to make your life easier.
@iLupi Місяць тому
We could really use some high speed rail, especially if they have one of the “vehicle transport cars” like the Amtrak line along the East coast or the Channel Tunnel. I would love to see a high speed rail project come to fruition.
@jackedup447 Місяць тому
Please give me a cross country high speed rail.
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