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Texas poised to get America's first bullet train
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I don't think most people get how big houston is; its sprawl is nuts. I lived not far from where I-45 meets I-10 for many years. Getting to my rehearsal studio a bit northwest of there frequently took nearly an hour (288 and BW8 IIRC, but I might be misremembering this far on) most times of day. Getting out to see my friends in Katy (still pretty much Houston) could take 1.5 hours. Getting across houston can take a couple of hours, even without traffic on the freeway. It is huge.
I love highspeed rail (I'm on the bullet trains in Japan usually at least 1 round trip every couple months), but I think houston in particular is challenging. I've been to the DFW area, but not spent enough time there to comment on that end's public transit.