From city council members and county judges to members of Congress, it seems like San Antonio and Austin leaders are hopping onto the idea of reliable commuter rail service between the two cities.
An artist's rendering shows what a passenger rail line connecting San Antonio and Austin might look like.
The Lone Star Rail District, an entity similar to the recently minted Central Texas Passenger Rail Advisory Committee, also got plenty of fanfare when it launched. However, the effort fizzled in 2016 because Union Pacific didn’t want to give up its rights to the existing rail line between the two cities for commuter service.
“When we look at the places that are likely to be next, it’s city pairs that have got the same characteristics that we see here, which are two big population centers separated by two or three hundred miles, lots of travel between them and lots of traffic between them,” Eden told Bloomberg News. “Atlanta to Charlotte, Dallas to Houston, Houston to San Antonio, San Antonio to Dallas — that whole triangle in Texas is one.
There’s just one problem: the majority of the existing rail line owned by Union Pacific isn’t suitable for double tracking due to existing infrastructure, including freeway overpasses and residential housing, according to the 2008 Central Texas Rail Relocation Study.
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