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Posted on 10/30/2009 5:36:34 AM PDT by Willie Green
FORT WORTH – A deal to make it easier for visitors in town for the 2011 Super Bowl to get to Cowboys Stadium could be close, a spokesman for Union Pacific Railroad said Thursday.
UP has been in talks with Super Bowl host committee officials for months over a rare agreement that would let the region run passenger rail cars along busy freight lines owned by the railroad.
Passengers headed to the big game could leave from rail stations in Fort Worth or Dallas, and would be dropped off near downtown Arlington, less than a mile from the stadium. Shuttles would then take them to the game.
An agreement is likely, said Clint Schelbitzki, the railroad's director of public affairs for Texas and Oklahoma.
"We are excited about this opportunity," Schelbitzki said. "The Super Bowl is such a huge event for this region. There are a few outstanding issues that we are going to have to work through, but we are very hopeful that we will be able to do so."
UP, one of the nation's busiest railroads, does not operate passenger rail service. But one of its major freight lines runs from Fort Worth through the middle of Arlington to beyond Dallas. Officials planning for the Super Bowl, which they say could lure more than 100,000 out-of-towners, want to run passenger cars along the freight lines for one day only, hoping to make it extremely easy to get to the Super Bowl.
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"tickets Please,please have your tickets ready"
Local folks know all the traffic and parking tricks. The visitors don’t and the result is usually a mess.
FWIW...I hope the nfl eventually goes bankrupt and folds...
Let the NFL have its socialism and eat it too.
Ah, the wonders of rail & public boondoggles.
Houston had a great facility called the Astrodome. Seats over 65,000. It had a gigantic parking lot, enough to accomodate all the cars going to the Dome. Easy access from the freeway and/or from city streets.
But of course, that wasn’t good enough for the goobers in goobermint.
Now we have built NEW stadiums in nearly the same location. And hosed up the parking. Now to get there you are often constricted to one method, which is - wait for it - Metro, our wonderful pubic bus & toy train entity.
Now the Astrodome, which is NOT paid off, and had just had millions in improvements, sits EMPTY and unused. And we have huge new balloon payments coming on the bonds to build the new, unneeded stadiums.
Ain’t civic boondoggles great ! Hey, let’s build a toy train route to there ! High speed rail ! Get to the game in 30 seconds from downtown !
Never mind that only about 1/2% of Houston’s population lives downtown - we gotta be a world class city !
Houston had a great facility called the Astrodome. Seats over 65,000. It had a gigantic parking lot, enough to accomodate all the cars going to the Dome. Easy access from the freeway and/or from city streets.
But of course, that wasn’t good enough for the goobers in goobermint.
Now we have built NEW stadiums in nearly the same location. And hosed up the parking.
Well the "goobers in goobermint" are merely sockpuppets of the Houston Oil Mafia.
So you can blame the bozos that the new stadia were named after:
I agree, Houston's mass transit is pathetically inadequate considering the size of the city.
I blame the Oil Mafia... they're screwing the people who live here.
There are no tricks to be found in Arlington when it comes to Jerryworld...unless you're in the mood to walk several miles each way.
Wouldn't be a bad idea to do a few test runs with the remaining Cowboys home games.
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