The Texas Central Railway is a proposal about a high-speed railway that will be built in the 2020. The two cities that are going to be connect by this railway are Dallas/Forth Worth to Houston. It will only take 90 minutes to get to the destination and is the first bullet train that is going to be built-in this state of Texas. Also, is going to change the way of many people lives. Some people argue that building this railway will bring faster transportation and economic benefit. But, the Texas Central Railway should not be built because it will damage properties and have more options for transportation. The high-speed railway will cause a big damage in farm people properties or people that live in the area that the railway is …show more content…
going to be built. Joe Martin, a reporter from Houston Business Journal, writes, “The train could depreciate the property value of the neighborhoods.” People are scared about what is going to happen to their homes if the railway is built in their neighborhood. Also to everything that they have built their entire lives. Joe Martin is saying that the value of Houston houses will go down, but imagine Dallas and the communities that are between their houses values will also go down. Many people had to pay for their properties, if they build this railway the government will not give them the same money they pay in the beginning for their land. Communities are important because that is what makes a state or a town and without it everything will change in a bad way because the town will be empty, and building this railways it will destroy all of this land that it have taken a lot of time. George Cooper writes that “probably the biggest factor affecting the economic development of Milam County was the advent of lignite mining in and around the community.” Not only homes and lands are going to be destroyed by machines, but it will destroy the environment around. For example, the wildlife of those animals that live around this communities. The government does not think about the impact that the railway is going to cause. Texas is big but it is not made to build a train that will damage about 400,000 Texans properties, DFW and Houston area. But not only that, it will harm the environment by bringing diseases, death to animals, or damage to the air. The rail way proposal has to have a solution to all the effects. The Texas Railway will damage lands and it will make transportation have a big change because there will be more options for people to pick.
For now the more use are the airlines, buses, or trains. Many people use the airlines to travel to one place to another, and by building the railway it will decrease the number of people who ride the planes and it will decrease the amount of people traveling in car, too. The railway is not only going to decrease the amount of people traveling in planes, cars, or bus but it will also decrease the amount of time people take to travel in this kind of transportations. A reporter says, “Texas central is planning to build a bullet train route that cut between Dallas and Houston, Trimming about 2 hours off the average driving time, and saving over an hour compared to air travel” (“Proposed”). The railways will cut time for passengers to get to their destination but it will have a bad result later on. Some people agree on building this train because it will be faster to get to one place to another, but they are wrong because it will take costumers away from other transportations, and it will have an impact in the increase of how much each ticket cost. It will destroy land from does that live there. Researchers have found that railways benefit economies by bringing competition to transportation because people will be able to choose from all the varieties. The Researchers are wrong because airline will not have the same amount of people as they do before the high-speed train is build. Not only the airlines but bus stations because people will not notice other transportation. The airlines, the cars, and trains companies will change things from their transportations because they will want to be better than the railways. For example, technology or even the ticket prices. All they would want is to be better than the railway, causing more and more competitions, which means people will expand more on buying the transportation
they prefer more. The Texas Central Railway will have a big impact in other transportations and it will destroy homelands. Many people argue that if they build this railway it will bring more people into state and also it will be a good way to travel. But they are wrong because building the train, it will bring much of damage into the environment and people. Senator Cornyn say, “I am respectfully asking you to support legislation that would prevent any federal, state, or local taxpayer money from being used for high-speed rail and not allow eminent domain to be used for high-speed rail in Texas.” Many Texans are against this plan because they argue that it will harm properties and they will lose money from their taxes. Those people are scared to lose everything they have earn throughout their life.
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I am a native of Florida who lived in the state for the majority of my life. I visited the state of Texas on numerous occasions, if I had to choose one of the two states to retire I would first outweigh the difference between the two. My decision will be based on cultural climate, recreational activities and economics.
supposed to be one. Many thinks that building the railway was the right thing to do. It
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