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<p>[quote user="CMStPnP"]</p> <p> </p> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">Sam1</div> <div class="quote-content">If TCR fails it probably will be dumped on the Texas taxpayers.  The state is not likely to allow a failed railway between Dallas and Houston to go to seed. </div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer"> </div> <p> </p> <p>Really?   Why not?   Did the State jump in to save the partially constructed multi-billion dollar super collidor project?    Where is the evidence the state will jump in to save this project and not let it fade away?   Furthermore, where is the money for that type of rescue going to come from if the state did not have money to complete the super collidor project? [/quote]</p> <p>Most of the super collider is underground and, therefore, did not have much of a visual presence.  Moreover, it did not have a readily available commercial use, and Texas did not have the resources to take it over.  In fact, the federal government did not have the resources or at least an interest it taking it over. </p> <p>If TCR's infrastructure were shuttered, no one knows whether the taxpayers would be on the hook for it.  </p> <p>Under one scenario the project would be allowed to go to seed. Under an opposite scenario, the state or federal government would take it over, just as the federal government (Amtrak) took over operation of the Auto Train after it failed as a private enterprise.   </p>
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