[net-gold] TRANSPORTATION: RAILROAD: PASSENGER : UNITED STATES: STATES: TEXAS: Off Track: Where Does Texas Bid for High-Speed Rail Stand Now?
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TRANSPORTATION: RAILROAD: PASSENGER :
UNITED STATES: STATES: TEXAS:
Off Track: Where Does Texas Bid for High-Speed Rail Stand Now?
Off Track: Where Does Texas Bid for High-Speed Rail Stand Now?
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
EDITORIAL
Feb. 6, 2010, 8:28PM
<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/6855017.html>
If you've ever wondered what the price of noisy partisanship among our
state leaders is for average Texans, here's an educated guess: billions of
dollars lost. And that's just the cost of missing out on federal funding
for a single, albeit massive project.
Texans recently learned that we missed out almost completely on federal
funding for high-speed intercity rail. The nation's second most populous
state was shut out, for all practical purposes, in the latest round of
competition for dollars that will create the nation's 21st-century
transportation future the way creation of the interstate highway system
shaped the 20th century. There may be other rounds of funding to come; but
given the red-ink-drenched condition of the federal budget, who knows when
or how much?
According to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Texas was all but
blanked in the race for $8 billion in federal stimulus money for
high-speed rail for one simple and, we think, unforgivable reason: Our
leaders couldn't get their act together.
If Texas had had its act together, it would have gotten some high-speed
rail money, LaHood said Wednesday in Washington. In all, 31 states took a
share of the $8 billion in stimulus money designated by the Obama
administration for high-speed intercity rail. Florida led the way,
receiving $1.2 billion. Texas came away with a small-potatoes $4 million
grant for planning in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
The difference between Florida and Texas? The political leadership in the
Sunshine State had their ducks in a row, LaHood says. They were unified
across party lines at the local, state and federal levels. They had a
specific plan. They were shovel-ready.
Texas Department of Transportation spokesman Chris Lippincott stated the
obvious: Texas needs to have more plans in that shovel-ready shape.
Lippincott says the near shutout in federal funding was not a surprise.
<snip>
But LaHood , a former Republican congressman from Illinois, makes another
point: It was also the plague of extreme partisanship that killed Texas in
this round of high-speed rail funding.
Alas, Houstonians know all about that. We have seen, up close and
personal, the harm that can come from being sharply divided in pursuing
federal transit funding. Feuding about light rail cost this region decades
in time lost and millions in federal funding.
Thanks largely to the mischief of former Sugar Land Congressman Tom DeLay,
the city and the region became a laughingstock when it came to transit.
DeLay actually took perverse pride in helping Dallas with transit while
blocking funding for light rail here.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
Sincerely,
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Temple University
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