Texas's $30 Billion FASTEST Bullet Train

Texas's $30 Billion FASTEST Bullet Train

Well, if you're a true Texan, you must have already heard about the state's grandiose plan to build the world's fastest bullet train. And with a whopping estimated cost of $30 billion, you know they're not messing around. But hold on a minute, what in tarnation is a bullet train, and why does Texas want one so badly? Let's find out!
#2023
#future
#billionaire
#train

[RogueKarma]

Forget the carbon footprint, I'm just tired of it taking forever to get to any one major city unless you live there or pay a ridiculous amount for a plane ticket.

[alealohakai]

I sincerely hope that Texas will build a high speed railway. I hope that the system connects all the major cities with a population of 500, 000 or more, and electric busses to connect the smaller towns long its route. I am also certain that domestic automobile manufacturers, oil companies, tire companies, and airline companies, etc. will lobby against it. Best wishes to the people of Texas!

[raeonardobak]

(Texas high-speed rail)If some sections are not going well because of the opposition of land expropriation by polar landowners (forces opposed to high-speed rail), it would be better to build high-speed rails as underground routes in those sections. 50m to 60m deep. There is no reason why high-speed trains should be delayed because of some sections.

S.korea(seoul-Busan Gyeongbu and Suseo-dongtan Suseo High-speed Railway), China, and even some other countries in Europe have high-speed trains made underground in some sections, but there is no need to build them only above ground or overpass. You can take a high-speed train in another country or look up an encyclopedia and actively deal with it. Because there is nothing wrong.

[joelahnstein]

Let me start by noting i live the idea of rail travel. Living in Germany for a decade showed how valuable it could be. However, if one believes it will provide a less expensive means of transport one has never paid by the kilometer influenced by the time of day. During the years we were there, the bundesbahn (German version of Amtrak but oh so much better) was losing BILLIONS of DM - now euros annually. Living by Houston, here are a couple of thoughts. Yes, everything is bigger in TX, including TX. Overlay a map of TX on Europe and you will see it is bigger than most of Europe combined giving one a better idea of the projects scale. First, as building hiways has shown, traffic expands to the available space. So for every vehicle not on the road, at least one more will takes its place. Second, the proposed Houston station isn’t near the central city. Third, and this is the weakness in most US cities, there is not a good follow-on transport system to get the passenger to the precise destination. Use airport solution of rental fleets? Expand taxi or Uber? Spend more money to push light rail? We can’t even get existing light rail expanded in the region because of a number of reasons, regional govt friction being one. When first broached, this rail was i believe, to be a totally private enterprise and this presentation seems to have snuck the public purse’s nose under the tent without bringing it to the public for concurrence. Last, the vision described here is but one leg of the entire plan: Houston - San Antonio and San Antonio - Dallas completing the triangle. So at least three times the current (underestimated) cost. One other item. Where are the tens of thousands of volts going to be generated when TX has trouble meeting grid demands today? Gonna build some nuke power plants? Wind and solar are still insufficient to do so.

[RUBENQuiroga-sb]

Have Mexican building it. They building 4year maya train 🚃 1, 00O. Miles call AmoL

[davidarmes]

They should spend that money on a wall.

[MBT]

Comorbidity and frequency of transportation are key factors of if succeeding or not.

[eddys.]

Funny detail is : All technology neccesary comes from abroad...

[normansilver]

Why not contract with China to build it? They have 9 high speed rail routes already up and running. Note that all 9 of those were initiated 3 years after California began build the scam that is $10 billion over budget and still has never seen a train run.

[danielmitchell]

California’s HSR project is $80 billion 🥲. The extra cost is due to more stations, as well as viaducts and tunnels needed to traverse the 2 mountain ranges to connect SF and LA. Plus, property acquisition for the project in California is insanely expensive.

[wendellcoleman]

Did you just come out of a coma a week ago and decide to do another video on this "exciting new idea"? The time for this long ballyhooed project has long-since come and gone. Despite all these recurrent claims of reducing traffic on these overly congested Texas interstate highways, improving air quality throughout the state, and being such a fabulous economic engine for the region, this project has faced daunting and recalcitrant resistance from the usual cabal of special interests, namely moneyed highway construction companies, airlines and major airports trying to protect their failing regional airline routes, and rural landowners that think "their air is just fine, thank you!". The private company behind this project has decided to throw in the towel and has disbanded their board and their momentum in getting this project over the hump has dissipated faster than a fart in a Texas hurricane.

Meanwhile, Amtrak and the Texas Department of Transportation have taken up the challenge of getting incrementally better passenger rail service up and running, and come up with a watered-down plan to extend the same pedestrian passenger rail service to the so-called "Texas Triangle" that would run between Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. Wait, did I say "run"? I meant jog, as apparently the AmtrakTxDOT proposal currently has no plans to implement ANY high-speed rail (please stop calling them "bullet trains") segments on their proposed routes! They plan on resurrecting a former Amtrak route between Dallas and Houston, utilizing more congested freight rail lines, to complete the Triangle. They'll just add one or two more trains running per day on these three legs, all averaging about 50 miles per hour(!?), and call it a day. That hardly makes it a high-speed rail line!

[Arjun-whem]

Now india is in list and 50% work already done