Texas Central picks downtown Dallas station site for its $15 billion high-speed rail proposal
Texas Central Partners announced Monday that a 60-acre tract southeast of the Interstate 30-35E interchange will be the site of the Dallas passenger station for the company's planned $15 billion high-speed rail line to Houston.
Texas Central Partners released maps and conceptual renderings that show a multilevel station between South Riverfront Boulevard and Austin Street, built to link with nearby roadways and proposed traveler-friendly connections with Dallas Area Rapid Transit light-rail and buses.
The news met with the approval of Dallas city leaders.
"The city is obviously more than supportive. We're completely behind this project," said Lee Kleinman, a Dallas City Council member and chair of the council's mobility committee. "We're excited about the economy for both Dallas and Houston and the congestion it's going to relieve."
Texas Central officials said they'd break ground on the rail line in late 2019 at the earliest. But for Roger Reyna, who has been trying to sell his land on Riverfront Boulevard for four years, the economic benefits of being near the station site were immediate.
Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/transportation/2018/01/29/texas-central-announces-downtown-dallas-high-speed-rail-passenger-station-site
