Ron Kirk will serve as senior advisor. He joins Robert Eckles and Tom Schieffer.
Central Texas Railway has been hosting public forums to discuss its projected Dallas to Houston route. Landowners along the route have raised concerns.
Building the bullet train requires land. Most land in Texas is privately owned by Texans, who love their land. Acquiring land presents challenges. [
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Texas High Speed Rail is hosting public meetings about its proposed high speed rail between Dallas and Houston. The popular topic at these meetings? Eminent Domain. Progress that the train represents is welcomed, but property owners love their land and don’t want to be separated from it. [KPRC Houston] The first public meetings about the privately funded, high speed rail proposed for Texas began this week. The Dallas Morning News reports that the company developinghigh speed rail has eminent domain authority. Its a combination of words that do not sit well with private property rights activists: private, company, eminent domain, and development. [Dallas… Preserving farmland is high on the minds of West Texans. The Brazos River Bottom Alliance says Texas leads the nation in disappearing farm land. Texas without farm land is like Texas without cowboys, a seeming impossibility. [Odessa American] Imagine if Texas Legislators had to authorize eminent domain for a project to move forward? California hasn’t gone that far to make the Legislature approve eminent domain, but the California Public Works Board is voting to condemn a feed store, a vacant lot, and other Fresno properties to build the San Francisco-Los Angeles high speed rail line.
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High Speed Rail is progressing in California. Billion Dollar construction contracts have been awarded. But, there’s a hitch. Eminent Domain and right of way negotiations aren’t moving. Hard to build when land disputes exist. [Fresno Bee]Bullet Train to Court? Eminent Domain Meets Texas High Speed Rail
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