2 Rural Responses to Texas High Speed Rail + Response from TX High Speed Rail

Resident of Waller county at a meeting about the use of eminent domain for proposed high speed rail:

  • “No private company should have the authority of eminent domain”
  • We have planes, we don’t need trains

The written response from high speed rail:

  • The counties along the route will receive a “financial windfall from high-speed rail, which will provide thousands of jobs and an economic impact of $36 billion over the next 25 years”

KBTX | High speed rail causes uproar in Waller County

KHOU | High speed rail causes upset in Waller County