Posted on 01/24/2017 7:52:55 PM PST by amorphous
President Donald Trump’s team has compiled a list of about 50 infrastructure projects nationwide, totaling at least $137.5 billion, as the new White House tries to determine its investment priorities, according to documents obtained by McClatchy’s Kansas City Star and The News Tribune.
The documents, circulated within the congressional and business communities, offer a first glimpse at which projects around the country might get funding if Trump follows through on his campaign promise to renew America’s crumbling highways, airports, dams and bridges.
Among the projects could be a new terminal for the Kansas City airport, upgrades to Interstate 95 in North Carolina and the construction of a high-speed railway from Dallas to Houston.
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Possibly named during the prior administration.
The ones I have read about were involved in the Johnson County War (in Wyo.).
What's needed is something like Elon Musk's tunnel plan.
There has been a lot of plans for a train from Dallas to Houston for a long time but believe it ran into trouble because of access to right-of-way. Can’t remember all the details - maybe someone else from Texas has kept up with what’s been going on. God forbid that we have high speed anything between Austin and Houston. Don’t need any more of the Austin types in Houston than we currently have.
Just south of Houston there is more widening of 59 highway and more new sections with name change to I-69 taking shape. Former Governor Perry debacle to do high speed access from Mexico through to Canada.
Houston Mayor on the news tonight stating that Houston is going to be third largest city in the U.S. in a few years. Trying to figure out how we can move out of area within the near future.
That was in the 1890s. The War of the Regulation in NC happened just prior to the Revolutionary War. It was the warmup act, so to speak.
They were backwoods frontier rabble-rousers here, more on the side of forcing corrupt royal officials to obey the law themselves rather than being purely outlaw, though. Breaking into courthouses and dragging crooked officials out by the heels to be horsewhipped, tarring and feathering, threatening the royal governor to the point that he got on a ship and fled, that sort of thing. Not a whole lot different from what other groups using the same name did further west with frontier justice, I guess, but they were trying to “regulate” the administration of law and justice in colonial NC rather than intentionally be beyond it, to make it more regular and fair in the old archaic sense of “regulate.” NC royal government was really quite corrupt.
Best to keep the libs confined to Austin. They can be dangerous in the real world.
There are plenty of libs in Dallas.
Hyperloop - ultra high-speed public transport unveiled by Elon Musk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiYb_0wOWqY
I’m descended from NC Regulators several different ways. Ninian Hamilton was my sixth great grandfather, he was quite the colorful old Scot. Another fifth great was bound out to Captain Benjamin Merrill after his mother and he were kidnapped by Cherokee and his father, my fourth great, was killed while on a mission to rescue them. That rescue mission was led by Gen. Hugh Waddell.
Exactly
“High speed will never be built by a private company in our lifetimes. They lose money on just operating costs. Company would never recover the investment and keep losing money year after year just to operate it.”
Well then the federal government should stay away from it.
Maybe greater than Lincoln. . . greatest since George Washington who also led a country to liberty and prosperity from an oppressive government.
But there is insane billion dollar Texas rail projects.
Hey, Donald, Texas does NOT need this rail project. Rule of thumb; nix everything with “project” in the title.
“I’m sure Trump’s looking at that. He wants the “private sector” to BOOM!”
If it is going to be funded by the ‘private sector,” why is it proposed that half the money come from the Federal Government?
“The document obtained by the Star proposes funding the projects as public-private partnerships, with half the money coming from private investment.”
If high speed rail from Houston to Dallas was viable, the private sector would build a high speed rail from Houston to Dallas.
BTW-How much would you expect a round trip ticket aboard Federal High Speed Rail would cost?
I am currently trying to determine if my 6x g-grandfather, who fought at Camden II (Hobkirk's Hill) in SC, was with Greene on the Race to the Dan and at Guilford Courthouse. Exciting stuff!
I saw some electricity grid entries, but not nearly enough.
I would put the updating, hardening, and provision for much standby capacity for our power generating and delivering systems (but not including bird-murdering wind) as job priority one.
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This might actually be profitable. If there’s any high-speed light rail that could pay for itself, this is it. The traffic between Dallas and Houston on week-ends is quite stunning. I’ve heard it is just as bad during the week.
I have to make the drive to visit my son, but he’s about 45 minutes south of Houston. I’d be happy to take a high speed rail to Houston then rent a car. It wouldn’t cost more than the long drive and would save time and wear and tear on my car.
There is already a bus that a lot of people use, but it’s still subject to traffic delays.
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