[Zakeet]

This will never work because it relies on the private sector rather than government handouts!

[Paladin2]

They’d be better off to build a canal.

[Paladin2]

"....get their goods across the state for pennies on the dollar compared to what it costs to haul freight in tractor-trailers"

LOL, let's the accounting on that. More like hundreds of pennies

[hosepipe]

We already have that.. its called “TRAINS”...
Like in choo choo trains..

[lormand]

Teamsters and other union thugs - hardest hit

[Charles Martel]

Just think how many Mexicans can be crammed into a cargo container and how fast they can be sent north.

I'm all for alleviating the traffic problems on I-35, but this would need some heavy-duty safeguards.

[Windflier]

What Texan could possibly argue with installing a full-length shade cover over I-35? LOL

[x]

It is an interesting idea of creative thinking. You take the existing paradigm and shift it or turn it inside out. Instead of worrying about mass high-speed passenger transport, you apply the new technology to freight transport, and let the people continue travelling as they do now.

Still, it does seem a little wacky. Sending freight one car at a time along electric rails? A conventional train might move a lot more stuff with less energy consumption in a reasonable period if there's no urgency. If there is urgency, we have other ways to get the goods where they have to go.

[rottndog]

From the article:

The prospect of reducing truck traffic on the I-35 corridor excited several members of the Tarrant Regional Transportation Coalition. Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley said he could envision moving people on trains in the highway right-of-way, too, instead of relying on railroad tracks owned and controlled by freight companies.


IOW....we don't want private industry getting involved in something government can (ought to) control.

The existing rail/truck transportation system is as efficient as it can get, given existing infrastructure and population density. Call me very skeptical on this pie in the sky idea.

[MachIV]

Sounds similiar to the NAFTA SuperHighway that open border RINOs like Medved keep trying to tell us is a figment of our imagination.

[SteelToe]

If it can get these slow poke trucks off the road, then I say build it.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

This isn’t another segment of the Trans Texas Tollway, is it?

[ExCTCitizen]

Interesting!!

[Sarajevo]

Powered by electricity? We had rolling brownouts last summer. Is there suddenly a glut of electrical power?

[cripplecreek]

Looks to me like they’re mostly concerned with going green.

http://www.metrans.org/nuf/documents/Roop.pdf

[SaraJohnson]

LOL! Fantastic comment, Zakeet!