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submitted 6 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

President Joe Biden is reportedly seeking to revive a project that would construct a high-speed railway from Houston to Dallas in Texas utilizing Japanese bullet trains.

According to a Reuters report on Tuesday, citing unnamed administration sources, the White House is looking to make an announcement on the project following talks between Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Washington, D.C., this week.

The Japanese government and the White House declined to comment on the report, though the project has seen renewed support from Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who told KXAS in Fort Worth on Sunday: "We believe in this."

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[-] Chemical@lemmy.world 115 points 6 months ago

Texas signed up first because it has “bullet” in the title.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 29 points 6 months ago

They think it's gonna be fired from a giant gun.

[-] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 78 points 6 months ago

I'd prefer some other state to get it than Texas. If Texas is going to deny federal money for unemployment and for healthcare, then Texas doesn't deserve federal money for other good projects.

And this is coming from someone in Texas who would benefit from it.

Texas GOP governor Greg Abbott has told state employees to try to avoid federal money because it might come with strings that require treating non rich and non whites as human.

Remember when Greg Abbott had a tantrum and basically shut down the Texas-Mexico border to most road traffic and fucked over all the rest of the US who was depending on products to come from Mexico?

Let Texas feel what it would be like to secede.

[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

At the same time HSR could encourage social lives and urban neighborhoods that would encourage less conservative thinking. I think if we get into petty partisanship, it will just continue to spiral until we have a second civil war.

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

until we have a second civil war.

Please, no more... I can only get so erect.

Conservatism is a fucking scourge. We need to finish the job this time.

[-] nahuse@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Are you really arguing for armed conflict in the United States?

Edit: a word

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[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 13 points 6 months ago

While I agree that Texas is not the most "deserving," if it gets rapidly improving infrastructure it will probably at least flip into a swing state, with more liberals than fascists. "Punishing" them just lets them play victim.

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[-] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 6 months ago

is accelerationism everywhere now? just let a single good thing happen geez

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 62 points 6 months ago

They're gonna be real pissed when they find out somebody used the word bullet to dupe them into building public transport.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

Had to lol at this. Too true. Whaddaya ya mean there’s no shootin’ on this train?!

[-] Red_October@lemmy.world 50 points 6 months ago

It'll get canned as soon as Texans realize it's not called a bullet train because of any involvement with guns.

[-] gentooer@programming.dev 13 points 6 months ago

Just make the station look like a giant gun

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[-] FakeGreekGirl 40 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Texas figured it out?

Texas?

Yeah, this is a real low point. This one hurts.

[-] Kaput@lemmy.world 32 points 6 months ago

They had to use > bullet> train to get them onboard.

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 9 points 6 months ago

so you just shoot the train? I gotta see this gun!

[-] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

No one else got your Good Place reference so I just wanted to say, have some frozen yoghurt.

[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Biden shouldn't be doing shit for Texas. He should try push this mainstream across the country. But Texas wants to secede Abbott probably find away to make this not happen anyway and funds will be stolen and wasted.

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[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 33 points 6 months ago

Plot twist. The train will be loaded into a giant gun and literally fired like a bullet because Texas.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 32 points 6 months ago

I still think NYC-Chicago is the real test of high speed rail in this country. A route people want to take, that’s far enough to fly, between two cities where car ownership is optional.

I’m glad Dallas-Houston is happening but I wonder how much traffic it will get. In my midwestern mind they’re both just “texas big city”

[-] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

It's not surprising that the first city pair would be a commonly traveled route with cheap flat land in between. Once that's demonstrated to work, they can start trying it for cities where the need to purchase rights for the route will be more expensive, and on terrain where long straight segments are more challenging to construct.

I wonder how much traffic it will get.

This source says average, about 24,000 people drive between the two cities any given day, and there are about 30 commercial flights per day between the cities. That sounds like a decent amount of potential demand.

[-] Crikeste@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago

But how walkable are Dallas and Houston? I think the success of this is predicated on that, because if people can’t get around without a car, they’ll take one with them.

Still though, pretty cool. Sucks it’ll be in Texas but progress is progress.

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[-] Zorsith 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I mean, getting out of Texas as fast as possible is an admirable goal for the future.

Crossing the great emptiness of it is a great starting point. Like building a river backwards, starting with a delta at multiple cities.

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[-] snooggums@midwest.social 32 points 6 months ago

With Texas' hardon against regulations I forsee this having a massive derailment within two decades of it opening.

Hope that isn't the case, because we do need better mass transit.

[-] Lukewarm_Tea@lemm.ee 14 points 6 months ago

Eh maybe. Usually the calls for deregulation are sponsored by the industry giants. So due to there not being a strong passenger rail lobby yet, I can see the regulation being fine. Once someone is trying to get rich then the derailments will start.

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Texas conservatives are notoriously anti-regulation now, after decades of being paid to build that platform. There will be as few regulations as possible (with or without a lobby); that is a guarantee.

[-] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 26 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I would be so down for this

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 41 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Its the absolute most no brainer route for high speed rail in the US. Two metropolises with a combined population in the 10s of millions that are around 300 miles apart, minimum elevation changes on a straight route, largely empty space in between.

When it's successful, you can hook it into fort worth pretty directly, and suddenly you have the core of a high speed rail network in a huge state that desperately needs it.

[-] garretble@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago

But I’m sure someone in the Texas government will say trains are “woke” and kill the project.

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[-] notaviking@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago

Time for Elon Musk to create a new vapour-ware like the boring tunnel to stop mass transplantation that will compete with his electric car empire

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[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 22 points 6 months ago

So people can get out of Texas faster?

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[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago

Gregg Abbott in a few weeks: "Trains?! Sounds like trans... No thanks, Biden!"

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[-] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago

To everyone outside if Texas: they've been talking about this for decades.

You know who will always find sneaky ways to sabotage it? The airlines.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

Meanwhile, China has over 30,000 high-speed rail lines.

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

But do they have a massive fossil fuel industry to prop up?!

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[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

A bullet train? in my Texas?! That sounds like some east coast liberal anti-car woke socialism!!

We dont want none of that hippy dippy liberty stealing foreigner mass transit in our glorious state!

/s for the oblivious

[-] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 22 points 6 months ago

But it has the word bullet right in it. Sounds like you're anti gun. Why do you hate freedom?

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[-] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 17 points 6 months ago

Man they’ve been trying to do this for years, but companies like Southwest lobby against it. Even Rick Perry was on board.

I would love to see it become a reality, but I’m skeptical.

Texas Monthly, 2015:

A Tale of Two Cities, a Bullet Train, and the Farmland in Between

[-] III@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

Here's a thought. Name your bullet train company like an oil company, call the bullet train the "oil pipeline".

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[-] Veraxus@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

As much as I hate to admit it, The People's Republic of Texastan kind-of makes sense as a starting point given the geography. If we can extend this to a nationwide network, it would be a very, very big deal.

[-] 5in1k@lemm.ee 12 points 6 months ago

No New York, Boston, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chicago though right? Only the Terrible people of Texas?

[-] shea 15 points 6 months ago

Houston and Dallas are blue enclaves you absolute dip. The people who live in those cities contain almost all the good people of Texas. Austin too. "The terrible people of Texas" so all the people of texas who aren't Republican are just nothing to you? This is a huge state with a ton of diversity in culture and opinion. The Texas GOVERNMENT is full of terrible people, and there's enough terrible people to vote them in, but not every Texan I'd automatically terrible. An absolutely massive portion of us hate what's happened to our beautiful state.

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

The year is 2008 and Texas residents are being promised a bullet train.

The year is 2016 and Texas residents are being promised a bullet train.

The year is 2024 and Texas residents are being promised a bullet train.

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[-] mojo_raisin@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

Ya cool, but are Texans going to run it? They don't exactly have a good track record when it comes to infrastructure. Maybe put it someplace, how do I put this... smarter?

[-] JimboDHimbo@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 months ago

Greg Abbott is not about to let this dope idea happen. Ain't no way.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Why not do it from NYC to WDC?

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[-] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

If we get a bullet train in the US it should be something like a DC to San Francisco route, make a proper substitute for cross country flights.

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