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Texas Central Railway has clarified its website regarding eminent domain. The clarification was picked up by the Dallas Business Journal.
Texas Central Railway (TCR) stresses that eminent domain is a last resort after all voluntary options are exhausted.
TCR further offers this message on private property rights:
“The project is committed to resp…
Rail is coming to Texas. High Speed Rail is working hard to become a reality. Commuter rail is growing, and joining this push is Lone Star Rail District.
Lone Star Rail District wants to link San Antonio and Austin via commuter rail. Think CalTrans from San Francisco’s penninsula.
Lone Star Rail is having a series of 5pm public meetings to build support:
Stands to reason that kilts may be more popular than toll roads based on a recent TXDOT meeting inDallas. TXDOT proposes toll lanes for portions of Interstate 35E and U.S. Highway 67 in Southern Dallas. People were not pleased.
80 people showed up to voice opposition. including, the Dallas Zoo, which was not thrilled about making it harder for people to get to the zoo, but because TXDOT borrowed the Zoo’s giraffe logo for the project. Reasons for the opposition:
8 Reasons why the Gas Tax should be abolished courtesy of the Wall Street Journal:
South Dakota like every state needs transportation funding. When Governor Daugaard layed out his tranportation funding plan, he said,
“there is a difference between being ‘cheap’ and being ‘frugal.'”
A record low number of Swedes died in traffic accidents in 2014. Sweden’s traffic fatalities run at 3 per 100,000. In the US, it is 11 per 100,000. Sweden’s fatality rate is nearly 1/4 of the U.S.’s.
What did the Swedes do right that has so many Americans studying Swedish transportation?
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Landowners are voicing concern about the impact of high speed rail on property values. Varied landowner comments on high speed rail include:
The selected routes impact the fewest land owners. Houston Business Journal
Previous citizen meeti…
Building high speed rail takes land. Acquiring land is challenging, it’s like trying to take a dog bone away from a possessive dog. The dog wants its bone. A landowner wants to keep his land in tact.
Texas High Speed Rail has been meeting with citizens to discuss plans and address issues land owners may have. Kudos to them for addressing the growing pains head on with Texans.
In California, high speed rail is in the building phase. In the building phase, they have been u…
A Conroe company, Texas Air Shuttle, wants to be the Uber of the Sky for one flat price per month. Dallas CultureMap
Technology moves faster than laws are enacted. Every state wants to be the one to pass laws that would allow testing of driverless cars. So far 4 states plus D.C. have done so.
Jumping on this band wagon is North Dakota, because you could drive for miles without seeing another human, which makes it a very safe place to test driverless cars or big rigs. Posted inlegislative trend, self driving cars