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NARP's Grid and Gateway Plan looks like an attempt to recreate the 1950s rail passenger network.  Practically every proposed line in Texas had some passenger service until 1955 or thereabouts.NARP is largely silent on how its proposal would be funded, other than to say it should be funded with a methodology akin to that used to fund the interstate highway system.  I asked them for the details on how the funding would be accomplished.  NARP headquarters did not respond, but a Texas NARP Board member suggested that it was not NARP's responsibility to say how its proposal should be funded.  That, in his opinion, is the responsibility of the government; NARP's role is to advocate a solution without putting any numbers around it.  That strikes me as irresponsible.How people get from A to B is a function of their options.  If there is more than one choice most people will take the lowest effective cost route.  That is to say, they will choose the mode of transport that offers them the best deal, i.e. convenience, reliability, flexibility, price, etc.  Most Texans, unless they are going across country, travel by car, especially if they are traveling for pleasure or family reasons.  If they are going across country, which can be from Dallas to El Paso, or overseas, they go by air.  In fact, most Texans commute by car, even in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.  They do so because it is the lowest effective cost for them.  This is not likely to change unless the price of gasoline goes sky high, without an alternative fuel solution, or congestion makes air and highway travel too costly or inconvenient.   According to the Texas Transportation Institute, the only place where rail travel might be a feasible option in the next 20 years is in the Texas Triangle.  Plans for the Trans Texas Corridor include provisions for inter-city rail, but few people take them seriously.  I have yet to hear any responsible transportation expert  say, for example, that rail passenger service between Dallas and Amarillo is practicable and likely.
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