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Old Posted Jul 14, 2014, 4:05 PM
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Originally Posted by llamaorama View Post
The area between Houston and Dallas is empty enough that this could be built on an entirely greenfield route, one that is also flat and would not cross any major water features either. Nor are there many environmentally vulnerable areas.

If it was acceptable to have Phase 1 end stations in say, Hutchins for Dallas and Cypress or Katy for Houston, this proposal might actually be rather sane. While central city stations would be desirable I think people will still mostly be driving to the stations and catching cabs from the other end, so a suburban location might not be bad to start with.
The intention is to build from downtown to downtown. Last I heard, Texas Central was fully committed to downtown stations.
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