{"id":985,"date":"2018-03-15T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2018\/03\/15\/4-point-opposition-to-houston-to-dallas-high-speed-rail-3-counterpoints-of-support-high-speed-v-higher-speed\/"},"modified":"2018-03-15T22:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T22:45:00","slug":"4-point-opposition-to-houston-to-dallas-high-speed-rail-3-counterpoints-of-support-high-speed-v-higher-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/4-point-opposition-to-houston-to-dallas-high-speed-rail-3-counterpoints-of-support-high-speed-v-higher-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Point Opposition to Houston to Dallas High Speed Rail. 3 Counterpoints of Support. High Speed v. Higher Speed."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Who is making these statements?\u00a0<\/strong>SNCF America, Inc\u00a0\u00a0in written comments to\u00a0Federal Railway Administration (FRA) Draft Environmental Impact Statement (Draft EIS) for the Dallas to Houston High-Speed Rail Project<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is causing the impending &#8220;doom&#8221;\u00a0on passenger rail in Texas?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1 Company benefits.\u00a0<\/strong>The Texas Central Rail Project is &#8220;designed around the best interest of a single company, not what is best for Texans or the state\u2019s rail transportation future.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Limited Area.\u00a0<\/strong>Modern rail is only successful in the US with network planning<\/li>\n<li><strong>Taxpayers will be liable.<\/strong>\u00a0operational revenue will not cover debt service<\/li>\n<li><strong>Relies on incompatible technology.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What does SNCF support?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>T-bone network.\u00a0<\/strong>passenger rail &#8220;\u200bnetwork would serve Houston, College Station, Dallas, Fort Worth, Waco, Temple, Georgetown, San Marcos, and San Antonio&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>More train options<\/strong>\u00a0that\u00a0consider\u00a0higher speed rail (125 mph max trains)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rail competition\u00a0<\/strong>based on compatible train technologies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20180312005328\/en\/SNCF-America-States-Proposed-Texas-Central-Rail\">Business Wire |\u00a0<strong>SNCF America, Inc. States Proposed Texas Central Rail Project Would Doom Texas&#8217; Passenger Rail Future<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Who is making these statements?\u00a0<\/strong>SNCF America, Inc\u00a0\u00a0in written comments to\u00a0Federal Railway Administration (FRA) Draft Environmental Impact Statement (Draft EIS) for the Dallas to Houston High-Speed Rail Project<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is causing the impending &#8220;doom&#8221;\u00a0on passenger rail in Texas?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1 Company benefits.\u00a0<\/strong>The Texas Central Rail Project is &#8220;designed around the best interest of a single company, not what is best for Texans or the state\u2019s rail transportation future.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Limited Area.\u00a0<\/strong>Modern rail is only\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,38,4,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-business-trend","category-railways","category-regulatory-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}