Texas poised to get America's first bullet train?

[Dopo]

Originally Posted by ParaguaneroSwag

Remote work is the future whether people like it or not. There’s going to be years of adjustment. We rushed into it too fast with Covid and are now having a more realistic transition. But that’s where we are headed

I don’t think so,
Most jobs require people to be in person

[serger]

Originally Posted by Need4Camaro

Meh, just remove the speed limit on I-45 ... do the same for I-35 while they're at it. I'd prefer that to a Bullet Train

How fast can you go in your Camaro (I assume)?

https://www.railway-technology.com/f...world/?cf-view

[Need4Camaro]

Originally Posted by serger

How fast can you go in your Camaro (I assume)?

https://www.railway-technology.com/f...world/?cf-view

Probably between 180 - 190ish with the current mods. Certainly there are trains much faster... but the camaro is a much more exhilarating experience, and removing speed limits is way cheaper.

[Dopo]

Originally Posted by Need4Camaro

Probably between 180 - 190ish with the current mods. Certainly there are trains much faster... but the camaro is a much more exhilarating experience, and removing speed limits is way cheaper.

Good look trying to do that on I-45

[stephenMM]

It would be a bullet, wouldn't it.

[crone]

I live about 1/4 mile from the purposed elevated line. And I wish the state had not declared the HSR was not a railroad to pacify a few land owners. The state was fine with a foreign country using eminent domain for a pipeline running Canadian sludge to the golden triangle for export to China.

When Muse started flights from DFW to Houston many years ago IIRC they said 40K people travel that route daily. They just wanted a tiny bit of the the business. We use VonLane bus lines. As do many others. The HSR will be way better. Hope we live long enough to see it.


The subdivision that backs up to the tracks is still fighting it. The HSR already bought a few houses in the ROW that they are allowing to go to seed. Teenagers use them for parties. But then, when ya buy a house that backs up to rr tracks or a freeway you are assuming a risk. In unincorporated Harris county you buy on the perimeter of the watershed in the middle of the subdivision in the middle of the block.

[SanJac]

Originally Posted by ParaguaneroSwag

Remote work is the future whether people like it or not. There’s going to be years of adjustment. We rushed into it too fast with Covid and are now having a more realistic transition. But that’s where we are headed

Ha! I remember pre-COVID before remote working took off one of the Supply Chain SVPs at my company said “if you can do your job from home then it can be done in China or India.” Just a few years later the entire R&D Engineering team was outsourced to China.

Of course one of the outcomes of COVID was looking for countries other than China for outsourcing.

[BMW R1100]

Originally Posted by crone

I live about 1/4 mile from the purposed elevated line. And I wish the state had not declared the HSR was not a railroad to pacify a few land owners. The state was fine with a foreign country using eminent domain for a pipeline running Canadian sludge to the golden triangle for export to China.

When Muse started flights from DFW to Houston many years ago IIRC they said 40K people travel that route daily. They just wanted a tiny bit of the the business. We use VonLane bus lines. As do many others. The HSR will be way better. Hope we live long enough to see it.


The subdivision that backs up to the tracks is still fighting it. The HSR already bought a few houses in the ROW that they are allowing to go to seed. Teenagers use them for parties. But then, when ya buy a house that backs up to rr tracks or a freeway you are assuming a risk. In unincorporated Harris county you buy on the perimeter of the watershed in the middle of the subdivision in the middle of the block.

Way back when, '81 TBE, I bought my first house in SoCal. Nice little place, 3 br 1+1/2 bath, with very nice, large add-on den with fireplace. When we were looking at it, I noted the big gnarly hedge back fence, and asked the realtor about it. "Oh," he said, "there's railroad tracks over there." I ended the look-see then and there, but he said the track is barely ever used, it was put in to supply lumber to a commercial lumberyard about a mile away, which was closing down. We bought the house, and in the 14 years we lived there, I saw one train on it. Then, the land was bought to build houses on. They told me I had to get the huge hedge out of there, and also the one between me and my neighbor. I don't like yard work one bit and was not looking forward to hedge work. They started leveling the space, and there was a knock on my door. "What about that hedge?" I told the guy I was working on it, heh-heh. He said he could get a guy with a tracked tool to just rip it out, for free. I said do it. The next morning a little 'dozer showed up, and had that hedge out in less than an hour, loaded it on a truck and took it away. The housing builder put in a block wall.

[crone]

Originally Posted by BMW R1100

Way back when, '81 TBE, I bought my first house in SoCal. Nice little place, 3 br 1+1/2 bath, with very nice, large add-on den with fireplace. When we were looking at it, I noted the big gnarly hedge back fence, and asked the realtor about it. "Oh," he said, "there's railroad tracks over there." I ended the look-see then and there, but he said the track is barely ever used, it was put in to supply lumber to a commercial lumberyard about a mile away, which was closing down. We bought the house, and in the 14 years we lived there, I saw one train on it. Then, the land was bought to build houses on. They told me I had to get the huge hedge out of there, and also the one between me and my neighbor. I don't like yard work one bit and was not looking forward to hedge work. They started leveling the space, and there was a knock on my door. "What about that hedge?" I told the guy I was working on it, heh-heh. He said he could get a guy with a tracked tool to just rip it out, for free. I said do it. The next morning a little 'dozer showed up, and had that hedge out in less than an hour, loaded it on a truck and took it away. The housing builder put in a block wall.

You lucked out due to not being in unincorporated Texas. Counties cannot make ordinances without the approval of the state legislature. So if you want dogs on a leash, you have to get the state to do it. The only thing standing between a property owner and a wrecker yard or wh...orehouse next door is subdivision deed restrictions that can be enforced. My last house was in a tiny subdivision of 4-5000 square foot houses. Two houses were rented to ladies of the evening . We moved.

Most people coming to Harris county see millions of people and lots of nice communities. They think they are in Houston. Then they get a surprise when trouble pops up.

[BMW R1100]

I am coming to realize that an HOA is a double-edged sword. Sometimes you get the edge, sometimes the other guy gets it.