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[quote user="schlimm"] Aside from the cost, which the current developers seem to think is feasible, a train that can run most of the way at 160 mph (as they do in Europe a good deal) should be able to manage the 240 mile run in 1 hr, 45 min. That would take the lion's share of the downtown to downtown market for businessmen from air.   Nudge the top speed up to 175 mph (again, done frequently in Europe, Japan, Taiwan, China) and the airlines would have to vacate the market. [/quote] The overwhelming majority of business people in the Metroplex don't work in downtown Dallas.  They are scattered throughout the Metroplex, which has a footprint as large as LAX or perhaps larger. I don't know how many business persons work downtown Houston. I suspect it is more than downtown Dallas. Like Dallas, however, many business activities in Houston are located outside the CBD. NASA, for example, is 26.5 miles south of Houston.    As an example, one of the largest business centers in the Metroplex is Legacy Park.  If I remember correctly, it is where Toyota plans to locate its headquarters. Whether the people from Legacy Park or any of the other North Dallas employment centers would go downtown to catch a train to Houston is problematic. Even more problematic is whether business persons or anyone for that matter in Fort Worth, Arlington, or the other mid-cities would go into Dallas to catch a train to Houston. DFW airport is much closer for them. Unfortunately, TCR has not presented any market studies of how its intends to attract people to its trains.
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