I know what they are saying about the train but I simply do not trust the Texas legislature to not waste the money as they have so often done in the past. Just too many non-Conservatives moving into Texas and it is just trending too blue.
The train idea that is a candidate for Texas government money isn’t the Dallas-Houston route and it will never be. The one that is is a monorail that is to parallel 35 between Austin and Dallas. The company doing the Dallas to Houston route does not want any government involvement that it can avoid. I personally know some of the people involved in the other one, the monorail from Austin, and yeah, that one wants government money.