Affordable self-piloting automobiles and small aircraft will be available sooner than this railroad can be built. Commuter trains have no future.
You are not only right...but.....you are 1000% correct and right on the money!!! Anyone that supports high speed commuter trains is not with the program and is minus a total brain!!! I can write a ten page “white paper” why “high speed rail” is a total farce, fleece and scam, from A-Z!!!
No sane passenger would ride from their home to a train depot, board a train and take a two hour train ride from Dallas to Houston, where they have to rent a car, and drive to their final destination, when they can get in their auto and drive to Houston...directly to their destination in about four hours total, or, even easier and faster, get a low fare ticket on Southwest Airlines or another air carrier, drive to Love Field, Dallas and be in Houston in just about one hour, flight time!!! End of story!!!