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Private firm planning 'bullet train'
Hopes are Dallas to Houston by 2020
Updated: Friday, 17 Aug 2012, 2:30 PM CDT
Published : Friday, 17 Aug 2012, 2:30 PM CDT
IRVING, Texas (TEXAS TRIBUNE) - The leaders of Texas Central High-Speed Railway sound very confident for a company expecting to succeed where scores of state planners, elected officials and private interests have failed.
The firm hopes to have bullet trains moving Texans at 205 miles per hour between Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston by 2020.
The bit that has raised eyebrows: The company plans to do it without seeking public financing.
“We are not the traditional state-run railroad,” Robert Eckels, the company's president and a former Harris County judge, said at a high-speed rail forum in Irving on Tuesday. “This is designed to be a profitable high-speed rail system that will serve the people of these two great cities and in between and, ultimately, the whole state of Texas.
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