Plans are reportedly being revived for a high-speed rail link utilizing Japanese trains running between Houston and Dallas.

President Joe Biden is reportedly seeking to revive a project that would construct a high-speed railway from Houston to Dallas in Texas utilizing Japanese bullet trains.

According to a Reuters report on Tuesday, citing unnamed administration sources, the White House is looking to make an announcement on the project following talks between Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Washington, D.C., this week.

The Japanese government and the White House declined to comment on the report, though the project has seen renewed support from Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who told KXAS in Fort Worth on Sunday: “We believe in this.”

  • Flying Squid
    15•8 months ago

    Meanwhile, China has over 30,000 high-speed rail lines.

    • @affiliate
      5•8 months ago

      yeah but how many of them are bullet trains?

      • @[email protected]English
        3•8 months ago

        The correct numbers are 159,000km of rail lines, with 5,500 commuter stations. 45,000km of those rail lines support HSR (bullet trains), serving 980 stations with 76 different HSR lines.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•8 months ago

      China has 76 High-Speed Rail lines…

      Surely you mean km, and the current number is 45,000km across 990 stations.

      • @UnderpantsWeevil
        0•8 months ago

        As of December 2022, it extends to 31 of the country’s 33 provincial-level administrative divisions and exceeds 40,000 km (25,000 mi) in total length, accounting for about two-thirds of the world’s high-speed rail tracks in commercial service.

        Must be nice to live in a modern industrialized country.

    • FenrirIII
      4•8 months ago

      But do they have a massive fossil fuel industry to prop up?!