re: Do you think the Dallas to Houston bullet train will ever happen?

There's no big need for it. There's about 35 flights a day between the two metros, using 4 different airports, and the speed limit is 75. Money better spent elsewhere.

Aren't the tickets relatively cheap in other countries? If I could pay $50 for there and back and I didn't have to drive, I would pay that all day long. I feel like security would be much easier than airports and you get there 10 minutes before the train leaves.

Yeah but flights are probably an average of $300. I bet people would ride the train over flying if it was much cheaper.

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It would be awesome to be able to get to Dallas in under a hour and a half

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... and then drive another hour and a half from the DFW train station to your friends' place.

Its looking more and more likely it will happen. But I wonder what the cost of a ticket will be. It probably won't be any cheaper than flying SWA which costs about $220. So you're basically looking at a time savings of maybe an hour since security won't be as tight. I think a more lucrative and more in demand route would be down I-35 to Austin and San Antonio.

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and then drive another hour and a half from the DFW train station to your friends' place.

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I'm 10 minutes from the train station. But you can't stay here. There is also light rail connections at the Dallas station to the northern burbs and to Ft Worth.

There’d be one from San Fran to San Diego and Washington to Boston before they’d ever build a bullet train from Dallas to Houston.

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ctiger69

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People who were smart enough to leave Louisiana

Southwest Airlines will lobby hard against this

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People who were smart enough to leave Louisiana

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But still stupid enough to troll the Louisiana message board.

Hey Texan go join the Texas board if you hate Louisiana so much.