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Maybe. How about DOT's plans to build a high speed rail line from Dallas to San Antonio, and from Dallas to Tulsa via Oklahoma City. Would you consider this one line or two? This corridor's total length is 580 miles. Or how about DOT's plans to build a high speed rail line from Chicago to Saint Louis, and from Saint Louis to Kansas City. Would you consider this one line or two? This corridor's total length is 550 miles. Why not connect the 240 miles between Kansas City and Tulsa? I have also noticed on DOT's plans a high speed rail line from Houston to New Orleans (and beyond to Mobile), New Orleans to Washington DC thru Birmingham and Atlanta, Charlotte, and Raleigh. Would you consider this one line, two lines, or even three lines? This corridor's total length is 1500 miles. SO MUCH FOR 300 MILES! There are a few holes in DOT's planned high speed rail lines, politically motivated somehow. Why does the DOT not fill the holes between Dallas and Houston, Kansas City and Tulsa, Little Rock and Saint Louis, Mobile to Jacksonville, Jacksonville to Orlando, Pittsburgh and Cleveland, and Cleveland and Buffalo? Their plans make zero sense. Why build a line all the way south to Florida from Boston and not include the Jacksonville to Orlando corridor? Explain this please.... The DOT, FRA, and Amtrak do not have any plans to connect Dallas to Houston, or Houston to San Antonio, two thirds of the so called highly dense Texas triangle! Half of Texas' 20 million 2000 population lives in the metropolitan Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio, and does this without including Austin. In my opinion it would be better to join the four major population centers east of the Rockies, Northeast, Midwest, Texas, and Florida with high speed rail, with an additional line between the Midwest and Florida. Four sides to the parrelegram, with a sla***hrough its shortest hubs. This would be better than anything FOT and the FRA have conjured up, i.e., incomplete corridors. My hubs include the northeast corridor with enough population to have its high speed rail corridor built already, the Chicago Midwest is surely a large metropolitan area, take your pick of either Atlanta and Florida, plus Texas: Dallas and Houston both over 5 million in metropolitan area (it would be nice to connect the two so that you could include both as a hub).....DOT's plan misses these two cities big time......
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