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The NIMBY issue is very interesting, NO ONE wants a new airport anywhere near them, much less a new freeway servicing it. You consider Oregon dense, whereas I do not. <br /> <br />I live in the DFW area, notice in Texas parlance that no one here says anymore Dallas and Fort Worth----the AND has disappeared from Texas jargon. There are more than 5 million people living within 50 miles of DFW airport. Its the same for the Houston area. There are no bigger metropolitan areas in this country as close as Dallas and Houston without a direct rail link....And to think Amtrak thinks it is more profitable to run a local to Oklahoma City, a metropolitan area of 5 hundred thousand instead of Houston, a metropolitan area of 5 million .Furthermore, Amtrak thinks it is wise to run a daily through train to San Antonio arriving most of the time after midnight is folly beyond anyone's wildest dreams. While Houston might be the big port and petrochemical complex of Texas, and Dallas Fort Worth is the banking and warehouse center of Texas, the heart of Texas is Austin and San Antonio areas.....To say that Amtrak has blown it in Texas is not overstated.
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