Texas poised to get America's first bullet train (www.newsweek.com)

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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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[-] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 57 points 6 months ago

It’s because “bullet “

[-] spectre@hexbear.net 34 points 6 months ago

Unironically would play on that shit if I were supreme dictator of US or Texas or whatever. Anything it takes to get some fucking infrastructure built (sorta).