Texas' $30BN High-Speed Railway

In Texas, the idea for a $30billion high-speed line is currently being reviewed. They want to adapt the highly successful Japanese Shinkansen system. So what do their plans exactly look like? And why might Texas be the ideal home to the first real high speed railway in the U.S?

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0:00 Texas' $30BN High-Speed Railway
0:53 Overview
3:23 Why Texas?
4:41 Stations & Benefits
9:20 Japanese Shinkansen
11:22 International Context
12:00 Current Status
13:29 Challenges
15:29 A look into the Future

#megaprojects #texas #highspeedrail
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[MegaBuildsYT]

Thanks a lot for watching! 💛 What side do you take on the Texas High-Speed Railway?

[glennzanotti]

I'm a Texan. That high speed rail between Houston and Dallas has been "currently being reviewed for over 44 years.

[findingninno]

As a Houstonian who has driven the I-45 trek to Dallas multiple times, I can tell you that the high-speed railway would be a huge benefit. I'm willing to bet farmers must have complained back in the day when I-45 was built, but eventually got used to it once it was built.

[PoppyE]

As a Texan this is so old and was only going to cost $1 Billion then, they've jacked around so long now it thirty Billion. Wheels will never let it happen.

[Jayquan]

Being a New Yorker living in Houston I would love this. Honestly Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio and El Paso should be link by a rail system with small stops in College Station, Waco, and San Marcos for the college kids.

[calculatorade]

Been in Texas all my life. DO IT. THIS WOULD BE AN INCREDIBLE GIFT TO YOURSELF AND YOUR NEIGHBOR.

[scottkessel]

Should build train for Texas triangle- Houston Dallas Austin and San Antonio

[ophs]

Of all the high speed rail lines that have been proposed in the U.S., this would be the easiest one to get done. No major rivers to cross, and no mountains to tunnel through. It's mostly flat farmland.

[fuzzy]

One thing that makes this more feasible in Texas compared to California is the terrain is fairly flat between Houston and Dallas. A massive problem California is facing is the terrain is extremely complex. There are substantial hills and mountains ranges in California making the costs much higher. The land values in California are also much higher, so the right-of-way is far more expensive.

[JRNY]

We need Shinkansen trains all over the US. Air travel is terrible here. Wish they would replace the Capital Limited line with high-speed rail.

[gendoll]

I worked with a girl who drove almost 3 hours to work ONE WAY. She made good money, but it wasn’t like 6 figures by any means. I wouldn’t drive more than 30 mins to a job. It’s insane to take 6 hours out of my day just in traffic, put that many miles and wear and tear on my car and take that much risk of getting into an accident every day.

[JCox]

As a DFW resident, just build the bloody train line already! Driving to Houston is a NIGHTMARE and gets worse every year!

[TruckingaccrossUSA]

Please make this happen Texas. You have no clue how amazing it would be to hop on a train in the morning spend the day in Houston or Austin and come back home to Dallas in a day!

[slaltemus]

I travel this route several times a month. I hate the drive so I mostly fly it. However, a train would be a fantastic option. I would use it.

[mars.]

Im a Houstonian I approve this fast speed rail system.

[dylanst]

I literally saw a video of a Texas farmer saying it makes more sense to add another lane to the highway instead of the high-speed rail😂😂😂

[erichter]

If a high-speed railroad segment is built quickly and commercially successful, it will blow the doors off for fast trains all over the US. I can't even imagine being able to go to Dallas for a concert and come back the same day.

[thetacoman]

We need to at least connect the texas triangle. Imagine living in San Antonio and getting to houston in 30 mins to work

[vickymizell]

As a native Houstonian I drive to DFW four times a year to visit my sister. I dread the drive! Unfortunately at age 70 I doubt I will ever get a ride on a high speed train.

[edbutler]

Why are rural people fighting this you might ask? I sat in a meeting with a Grimes County Judge a few years ago, and it appears that when they (try to) build this railway that bisects a county, city, farm, community, etc. that there will be no way to get to the other side of the tracks. They propose the railway will be on a 30-foot-high mound of dirt with a fence/barrier at least 30 feet on either side with limited access to the other side of the tracks. So, farmers/ranchers/communities do not want their land cut in half and have to travel hundreds of miles out of the way that used to be only a couple of miles before the train. If they want this to go forward, they will need to make access thought-out the county they travel in completely accessible as it is now.
And on a sides note, you might ask why the State of Texas has blocked some of the progress? Because the people have voted against it, so the company cannot get public money, cannot get eminent domain declared, it will not be funded by state or fed money and they have not raised the money needed to acquire the land they need. with the way they are proposing this train corridor by cutting a county it travels through in half, it will never go forward.