Why?
Presumably because the investors think there's a market.
So that the citizens of Dallas can quickly get to Houston. Probably for a trip to the amazing upper Texas coast beaches.... Or perhaps the beautiful Houston climate.... < /s>
To make money, believing they can be competitive with Southwest Airlines.
Not sure that the can, but if done without government (tax payer) dollars, ok.
First see if they can build a Dallas-Fort Worth train with a stop at the airport.
Progressives love it. They what Criminals to be free to move rapidly between the two largest thug cities in TX.
They are being sneaky about this issue. They have Propsition 1 on the table and are basically asking to use the rainy day fund claiming they have a shortage of money to maintain our roadways when in truth they want to use it on the new railway system. We know what this will actually result in - they will commence working on the railway system, end up having a shortfall with higher than antiipated costs after using all the tiny day unds then come back to the citizens and say they need to increase taxes. In the meantime the politicians pushing this will get their payoffs from the uual suspects in this fiasco and the standard contractual brother-in-law arrangements will be ade, pockets will be stuffed, and fraud will be rampant as they bill for services they didn’t do, supplies they didn’t buy, payroll for eople who didn’tvreally work, etc...
Been investigating this type of crap for 20 years. Trust me it will go down this way...
They are being sneaky about this issue. They have Propsition 1 on the table and are basically asking to use the rainy day fund, claiming they have a shortage of money to maintain our roadways when in truth they want to use it on the new railway system. We know what this will actually result in - they will commence working on the railway system, end up having a shortfall with higher than antiipated costs after using all the tiny day unds then come back to the citizens and say they need to increase taxes. In the meantime the politicians pushing this will get their payoffs from the usual suspects in this fiasco and the standard contractual brother-in-law arrangements will be ade, pockets will be stuffed, and fraud will be rampant as they bill for services they didn’t do, supplies they didn’t buy, payroll for eople who didn’tvreally work, etc...
Been investigating this type of crap for 20 years. Trust me it will go down this way...
I’d bet all I have that that route goes through some real estate of some “connected” folk who stand to make huge bank for selling or leasing the land to the bullet train.
It would come in handy for hurricane evacuation.
To connect the two Ebola centers that are being set up in Richardson and Galveston.