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Very well said. However, Texans want to be able to travel to the midwest, the northeast, to the southeast, and to the west. The problem is, we can't get there in 14 hours. Its around 900-1000 miles to Chicago from Dallas, to Atlanta from Dallas, and another 900 miles from either to New York City. Or there abouts. It takes 22 hours to get to Chicago. If we had high speed rail, if not the state if the art TGV's 186 mph but with the unelectrified less than the state of the art JetTrain's 150 mph, we could get to Chicago in 6 hours, or so. We could get to New York City in 12 hours, or so. Simply put, Texas' Amtrak service is awful. One must catch the train in the late afternoon, to go north and south on the Eagle. One must catch the train in the late afternoon to go east or west and switch onto the Sunset Limited after spending the night in San Antonio in the wee hours of the morning. Or if one is going east, one must catch a bus in Dallas near midnight and catch the Sunset Limited in Houston in the early morning hours. This is awful.... even though the lines on Amtrak's map looks great, in practice, it is awful..... And why Amtak has not put in a daily local between Dallas and Houston is beyond me! It is as if Mr Gunn wants Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson to deliver her death threat to Amtrak.... She has done her best to improve Amtrak's service in Texas, but Amtrak refuses to deliver. At this rate of improvements, zero, she will deliver her death threat. She has the votes....
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