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North Texas Puts Up More HSR Money
TX: North Texas Puts Up More HSR Money
GORDON DICKSON ON SEP 1, 2015
SOURCE: MCCLATCHY
Aug. 31--The effort to connect cities from Fort Worth to Houston by high-speed rail continues to chug along, and attempts to stop the plan through political channels have faded for now.
The Regional Transportation Council earlier this month agreed to pay $4.5 million through 2018 to keep up planning efforts on the portion of the proposed bullet train system that would connect Fort Worth, Arlington and Dallas.
Also, the Federal Railroad Administration has agreed that the preferred corridor for a proposed Dallas-to-Houston train should closely follow electrical transmission lines between the two cities.
Though politically sensitive, the concept of trains capable of traveling 220 mph zipping across the state is moving closer to reality, supporters say. Efforts to block the project failed during the state legislative session that ended June 1, clearing the way for more study of the project, which supporters hope to have open to the traveling public by 2021.
High speed rail has the potential to revolutionize the way we travel between the state's largest metropolitan areas. ...........(more)
http://www.masstransitmag.com/news/12109479/north-texas-puts-up-more-high-speed-rail-money