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President Joe Biden is reportedly seeking to revive a project that would construct a high-speed railway from Houston to Dallas in Texas utilizing Japanese bullet trains.

According to a Reuters report on Tuesday, citing unnamed administration sources, the White House is looking to make an announcement on the project following talks between Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Washington, D.C., this week.

The Japanese government and the White House declined to comment on the report, though the project has seen renewed support from Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who told KXAS in Fort Worth on Sunday: "We believe in this."

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[-] 5in1k@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

No New York, Boston, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chicago though right? Only the Terrible people of Texas?

[-] shea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 7 months ago

Houston and Dallas are blue enclaves you absolute dip. The people who live in those cities contain almost all the good people of Texas. Austin too. "The terrible people of Texas" so all the people of texas who aren't Republican are just nothing to you? This is a huge state with a ton of diversity in culture and opinion. The Texas GOVERNMENT is full of terrible people, and there's enough terrible people to vote them in, but not every Texan I'd automatically terrible. An absolutely massive portion of us hate what's happened to our beautiful state.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Yeah I don’t hate it because of where it is, though I do think that because of the state it’s in it will disproportionately favor certain people. But I’d rather the East Coast-Midwest line largely for its practicality. Once we’ve got NYC-Chicago you’re never getting rid of that shit if it’s good. And it could be more easily expanded than the texas route

[-] eldavi@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Living in Austin has taught me that the bluest Texans are still redder then most Democrats

[-] 5in1k@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah well I want a god damn bullet train in Michigan so fuck Texas.

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