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In 1989 Texas created the Texas High Speed Rail Authority to connect Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. Their goal was to award a semi-private high speed rail fra
by heliophobicdude 4y ago
In 1989 Texas created the Texas High Speed Rail Authority to connect Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. Their goal was to award a semi-private high speed rail franchise from high speed rail vendors. SouthWest petitioned to be included in the authority and effectively killed it
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- rdxm 4y ago[dead]
- gruez 4y ago>SouthWest petitioned to be included in the authority and effectively killed it Is there more on this? I skimmed the link and it looks like southwest sued and was able to get some sort of injunction, but it didn't mention why they were suing. Also, I couldn't find any mentions about them "petitioned to be included in the authority".
- melling 4y agoWhy would an airline sue to stop a HSR project?
- cguess 4y agoBecause Southwest's business model, especially back then, is short haul flights between cities that are just far enough from each other to make driving inconvenient. Guess what else is a good and way more convenient transportation method for that?
- letouj 4y agoBecause they had a nice revenue stream running short-hop flights between those cities and didn't want high-speed rail cutting into it. Routes under 300 miles or so are the sweet spot for HSR where you can actually save time going from downtown to downtown instead of dealing with the airport rigamarole.