Texas Expects to Break Ground on High Speed Rail by End of 2017

The project will create approximately 10,000 jobs per year for creating and building the high-speed rail project; the fully operational high-speed train will create 1,000 new high-tech jobs

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The nation's first high-speed rail connecting Houston to Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, plans to break ground by the end of next year. The project will create approximately 10,000 jobs per year for creating and building the high-speed rail project. The fully operational high-speed train will create 1,000 new high-tech jobs.

Texas Central Partners, LLC, is developing the rail system. Texas central is purchasing the bullet train technology from Japan. The Japanese bullet train has been running for over 50 years with no crashes or fatalities due to operations

“The train never crosses a road, and there are no cars waiting on trains. Also there are no trains intersecting the cars, and no whistles or horn on the train,” said Holly Reed, managing director of external affairs at Texas Central. “That’s how you get reliability and safety. There’s one track going north and one track going south, so you never have trains going opposite directions.”

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