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Texas could get a 205-mph bullet train zipping between Houston and Dallas::The proposed electric railway line could travel 240 miles in under 90 minutes for over 6 million passengers per year.
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It could, but it won’t.
I dunno, they do like bullets
That’s how you sell it to them
On the other hand, one of the reasons they like bullets is because they can be used to kill minorities. A bullet train designed in a certain way can kill both a lot of minorities and public interest in mass transportation.
I live in Texas and this is unlikely to happen. It was more likely to happen a few years back. I doubt they will build a eletric train between two liberal cities. The only thing that would make it less likely is if you said it was a gay eletric train. Even if they did, Texas cities are sprawled out and require a car. It would only work if you could load your car on the train. It would be useful for students going back and forth to their universities. However, university students are almost as despised as poor people or minorities to most of the voters in Texas.
“But how we gonna roll coal in that thing?!”
I tried to find the existing Houston rail station on foot one time. It took an hour. There were few helpful signs and sidewalks only some of the time.
Can do… But won’t
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With the way US rail is “regulated” I would be wary to het on this once it’s running.
The US is actually in the bottom of the middle third as far as derailments and accidents per mile traveled. If you’re looking for an outlier on this, Germany has almost four times the European median for accidents per mile traveled.
