Fort Worth Star-Telegram: A boost for high-speed rail
September 14th, 2015
August 25, 2015 - Fort Worth Star Telegram Editorial
Planning for high-speed rail service linking Fort Worth to Houston continues to move forward, slowly but decidedly.
The Regional Transportation Council last week allocated $4.5 million from its regional tollway revenue accounts to help support that planning over the next three years.
In the big picture of this project, that's not a huge amount of money — Texas Central Partners has proposed spending $10 billion or so of private money to build the Houston-Dallas portion of the line by 2021.
The Fort Worth-Arlington-Dallas portion is being studied for possible public funding. Fort Worth businessman Bill Meadows is the chairman of a special commission created by state transportation authorities to lead that part of the study.
Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/editorials/article32384529.html
Planning for high-speed rail service linking Fort Worth to Houston continues to move forward, slowly but decidedly.
The Regional Transportation Council last week allocated $4.5 million from its regional tollway revenue accounts to help support that planning over the next three years.
In the big picture of this project, that's not a huge amount of money — Texas Central Partners has proposed spending $10 billion or so of private money to build the Houston-Dallas portion of the line by 2021.
The Fort Worth-Arlington-Dallas portion is being studied for possible public funding. Fort Worth businessman Bill Meadows is the chairman of a special commission created by state transportation authorities to lead that part of the study.
Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/editorials/article32384529.html