County Judge Lists 4 Reasons High Speed Rail has High Hurdles + High Speed Rail 6 Counterpoints.

Limestone County Judge  Daniel Burkeen lists 4 reasons high speed rail isn’t foreeseable:

  • No eminent domain authority- at least not yet
  • No  environmental studies are completed
  • No land has been acquired
  • No permission to cross our county roads

Texas Central Railway’s 6 Point Repsonse:

  • County policy is anti- business
  • County policy is anti- innovation
  • County policy is anti-private investment
  • They will receive no federal subsidies
  • The Company is negotiating in good faith with landowners
  • Texas has a history of granting eminent domain authority to railroads

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