Posted on 10/28/2010 9:11:01 AM PDT by smokingfrog
High-speed rail in Texas, long left for dead, is likely to regain a pulse today when U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announces a $5.6 million grant to plan a passenger rail line from Oklahoma City to the Rio Grande.
The money is part of $2.4 billion in federal grants to be unveiled today for high-speed rail projects, a spokesman for the Federal Railroad Administration said.
The $5.6 million grant, announced Wednesday by the office of U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, would pay for what is expected to be a 42-month study that would identify a preferred route on existing or new tracks, estimate capital and annual operating costs, project ridership and evaluate environmental effects of passenger rail.
Building high-speed rail from the Texas-Mexico border to Oklahoma, however, would cost billions of dollars. Policymakers have not identified a source for the money.
The grant is only half of what the Texas Department of Transportation requested for what it estimated would be a $14 million study. TxDOT will contribute $2.8 million from money the agency had approved for the Lone Star Rail District, the agency that hopes someday to build commuter rail between Georgetown and San Antonio.
The $11.2 million grant application did not mention any contribution from Oklahoma.
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Stealth Trans Texas Corridor... I would hope the money will be turned down... Texans don’t want it...
So we get a high speed train to a Mexican Border town so the passengers can line up at the depot to be SHOT by the Mexican Drug Lords.
WHAT A WASTE OF MONEY!!!!
The cartels will be thrilled!
I don’t like to get on the train in Houston that goes nowhere! I won’t be looking for a train that goes to OKLAHOMA!
Exactly, and glommed onto by LLiberal LLoyd Dogsh!t whose district runs from the Rio Grande Valley to Austin so just guess the direction where the 42-month study will recommend the tracks be built?
Vote Dr. Donna Campbell and oust LLiberal LLoyd.
this is one high speed rail project that I can actually SUPPORT!
“All Aboard the DEPORTATION EXPRESS!!”
“Stealth Trans Texas Corridor” I always considered it to be I-20 and I-35
So illegals from Mexico won’t have to walk....
An express train for illegals. I wonder if they will allow pigs and chickens on the train.
$5.6M for a study? Sounds like graft money to me.
It’s nice how they get this press release out just before the election.
Texas’s 25th congressional district does not run to the Rio
Grande Valley. It once did, but does not now. Still, I agree that Donna Campbell needs to defeat socialist, union-boss-and-trial-lawyer-owned Lloyd Doggett.
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