While the Dallas to Houston bullet train gets most of the attention, there are separate train developments surrounding Dallas including proposed routes to Miami and NYC, as well as a high-speed train to Fort Worth.
Regarding the latter, the North Central Texas Council of Governments’ (NCTCOG) Regional Transportation recently approved an additional $1.6 million to go toward its development.
The approval comes months after the Dallas city council voted against its original planned route parallel to Interstate 30 in the southwestern area of Dallas near the Reunion Tower and Hyatt Regency Hotel.
The council also cited that development would have to pend an economic impact study.
Development of the proposed high-speed train connecting Dallas and Fort Worth would also need depend on clearance from National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) – this also isn’t likely to happen until 2025.
Its new proposed route has the train running alongside Riverfront Boulevard to a station in the Cedars. This new route would be clear from the Hyatt Regency Hotel. In the Dallas city council meeting in June, Hunt Reality Investments argued against the initial route which would interfere with its multi-billion-dollar investment surrounding the Hyatt area.
The newly-proposed route could, however, compromise the Dallas-to-Houston rail line connecting with the Dallas-to-Fort Worth rail line argued NCTCOG project manager Brendon Wheeler.
Michael Morris, director of the NCTCOG, stated that the newly-approved $1.6 million could go toward the pending environmental review.
Organizers project that the proposed Dallas-to-Fort Worth line could bring up to 30,000 passengers to their end destination within 30 minutes. There is presently the existing Trinity Railway Express that runs between the two cities, though it takes up to an hour.
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