FRA technical report reviews corridor alternatives for Texas Central Railway project
Progressive Railroading  - August 17, 2015
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) last week issued a "Corridor Alternatives Analysis Technical Report" for Texas Central Railway's proposed Dallas-to-Houston high-speed rail project.

The document, which is part of the FRA's review of the project's potential impact on the environment, identifies and evaluates a range of potential corridors, station locations and service types that could become "alternatives" in the environmental impact statement, the report states.

Texas Central Railway has proposed building and operating a private, for-profit passenger rail line between Dallas and Houston using the Japanese N700-I Tokaido Shinkansen high-speed rail technology. The rail system would operate along a 240-mile corridor between the two cities.

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