Posted on 09/26/2009 2:41:06 PM PDT by Willie Green
The French national railway SNCF has filed a detailed proposal with the Federal Railroad Administration stating an interest in operating high-speed rail in Texas.
The route in question would run from DFW through Austin and into San Antonio. It would not be the Gulf Coast route that's been on the USDOT's official list of 10 prospective HSR corridors or the much-promoted Dallas-Houston link (including the Texas T-Bone). But Houston could be in the distance.
From Yonah Freemark on the TransportPolitic blog:
At $13.8 billion in construction costs, SNCF expects benefits to outweigh public infrastructure costs by 170% over a period of 15 years. This project would have the highest rate of return of any of the corridors profiled in the studies presented here.
(Excerpt) Read more at transportationblog.dallasnews.com ...
That’ll be a good investment.
Investment?
They will make the taxpayers pay for it.
Wonder whose land they will confiscate to build it on...
Oh I don’t think this is going to fly, nope.
So? same as Eisenhower Interstate system.
Perry with his continuing relentfull push for the Spanish owned TTC and now the French with HSR. Just damn them.
PS - I thought the Spanish were in depression with the Frenchies not far behind?
Just widen IH-35 ....This is Texas not the Northest US...
I don’t get charged $100 to get on the highway
HOLY CRAPOLA!
THE FRENCH WANT TO BUILD A HI-SPEED RAIL TO TEXAS???
TEXAS USA??
I can’t wait to see that! Are they going to tunnel under the ocean like they did to england?
As long as the French or the Japanese build and run the railroad, it would be a boon to Texas. Our own feckless government...not so much.
In fact, its more than that. And you pay for it on every April 15th.
The Spanish are in seriously bad shape because of Zapatero’s “green jobs” iniative, which closed a lot of ordinary production in Spain but never produced anything else (simply because it’s impossible...”green jobs” means “no jobs” in the real world, because nothing is produced).
So I’m not surprised their few remaining companies are out seeking contracts.
That said, I love rail travel and have no objection to it, but I betcha that the America-hating Obama wouldn’t encourage any domestic private industry involvement in this. His environmental units would find some way to destroy any such company.
What did the Spanish expect? Zapareto is a Socialist.
They had had a Socialist (Gonzalez) who was basically in the Bill Clinton mold...a glad hander, corrupt, but willing to go with the flow if it benefitted him.
They got a Socialist radical ideologue, thanks to 3/11 (the Madrid bombings) and the way it was manipulated by the left.
Why, no one will be able to afford to go anywhere?
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