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A conservative writer points to 3 “experts” to support the argument that subsidies will be involved in Texas High Speed Rail:
The Expert: Stanford University economics professor Alain Enthoven
The Subsidy angle: Eminent Domain is a subsidy
The Expert: assistant director of transportation policy for the Reason Foundation, Baruch Feigenbaum
The Subsidy angle: federal Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing (RRIF) loans are subsidies
The Exert: Gerard Llobet, associate…
The questions will be first answered by Attorney General Opinion request, RQ-0113-KP, and in all likelihood later answered by the courts.
Slate | Will Texas Law Trip Up a $10 Billion High-Speed Rail Project?
What high speed rail data is factored into the calculator?
The purpose of the calculator? If high speed rail finances go south, the State of Texas will foot the bill.
The Requestor: Chairman Byron Cook initiated RQ- 0113-KP about Texas Central Rail
The Questions asked of the Attorney General:Do the parties have eminent domain authority to condemn property for Texas High Speed Rail?
The Facts and Statutes key to whether Texas Central Rail has eminent domain power:
Colleyville officials have asked the Regional Transportation Council to “delay, destroy or disrupt” the TEX Rail project connecting Ft. Worth, Grapevine and DFW.
The reasons for saying NO to Tex Rail:
Ft. Worth Star Telegram | Colleyville aims to disrupt, destroy TEX Rail
The lawyer: Blake Beckham
His legal style: Rottweiler-styled lawyer
Coordination with opponents to high speed rail: Yes. He spoke to Ellis County landowners and was described as putting “wind in the sails”
The Way He Sees to Stop Eminent Domain by Texas Central Rail: By declining Congressional approval of the route, without the route approved, there can be no eminent domain
WHO IS PUSHING SAN ANTONIO TO MONTERERY HIGH SPEED RAIL? Congressman Henry Cuellar since 2008
PUBLIC OR PRIVATE FUNDING? Private
WHAT ARE ECONOMISTS SAYING?Monterrey/Saltillo and San Antonio/Austin is the largest economic generator in the world over the next 20 years
News4SA | High-speed passenger rail line could link San Antonio to Monterrey
The businesses support high speed rail in Texas because:
Cypress Creek Mirror | Houston-area business groups support for Texas’ high-speed train
The Rangers are moving forward toward a new stadium.
But, how do you connect people to the stadium? Overwhelming majority of stadiums are linked to rail.
An additional spur for high speed rail to Arlington would be just the ticket.
Which Texas Congressman wrote to the Surface Transportation Board about opposing high speed rail in Texas? Congressman Brady
What is Congressman Brady’s opposition to high speed rail in Texas?
What is Congressman Brady’s opposition to the high speed rail route?