What Will It Take to Build a Bullet Train in Texas?

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By Amal AhmedAug 29, 2023, 4:01 am539 ptsTrending
For more than a decade, a private company called Texas Central has been promising, and struggling, to build a high-speed rail line between Dallas and Houston, two of the state’s largest cities. By 2020, the company boasted, Japanese-style bullet trains would take passengers 240 miles in about 90 minutes –…

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