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[quote user="John WR"] [quote user="Sam1"]Passenger rail in Texas will never be a serious transport option until we have multiple offerings per day, on a relatively quick schedule, running during the hours when people want to go some place.  Running the Texas Eagle, as it is, does not address the issue of better alternatives for people traveling along the I-35 and I-30 corridors. [/quote] Bob Johnston addresses that issue, Sam.  TEMPO is working for more equipment and more and more frequent trains.  Of course, whether Congress will allow it is another question.   John [/quote] At the meetings I attended the emphasis was on maintaining a national network.  The mantra seemed to be trains everywhere. I don't know any transport planner in Texas that takes TEMPO seriously.  The fact that its officers are not readily available ought to tell one something. After I couple of TXARP meetings, which is where I met Pollard and some other TEMPO folks, I concluded that the organization is unrealistic.  Just where a nation that is awash in more than $19 trillion of government debt is going to get the money to expand passenger rail is a mystery. The Lone Star Rail District has been trying to get funding for a commuter rail project between Austin and San Antonio for at least a decade or longer.  Other than a couple of feasibility studies it has gotten nowhere.
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