A newly formed group is trying to revive a plan to bring passenger train service to the I-35 corridor in Central Texas.
: Yeah, thanks so much for having me. So talk to us a little bit about how we got here under. Understand, there was a long-standing proposal to build passenger train service between
and San Antonio that eventually got killed in 2016. What's behind the effort to try and bring that back, and what led us to where we are now?: Well, there are a lot of reasons why the Lone Star Rail District ended up being a failure. What really put the nail in the coffin? It was that in 2016, the Union Pacific Company, which owns the existing freight rail line between Austin and San Antonio, pulled out of the deal with Lone Star Rail District.
: Yeah. So I like to see regional rail instead of commuter rail. So a regional rail basically is the same thing as commuter rail, given that it stops in smaller population centers instead of just downtowns like Amtrak does. So that's really the big distinction. We're proposing a lot of stations throughout the metro areas of both San Antonio and Austin.
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