Public Transportation and Smart Growth

Here in Texas there was an initiative to do a higher speed rail between San Antonio to Dallas to Houston back to S.A. There was an outcry by ranchers and farmers not so much on account of ROW but the division of property with limited crossings which would land-lock acreage, making it near useless. That with the high noise of the trains built a coalition with various groups of whatever political stripe to sink the project.

I remember when I-610 loop was being built in Houston- there were miles of condemned houses and business waiting to be knocked down for the road. I was aware of how that came about but I am sure there was some fire and brimstone.