Union Pacific has terminated its part of the Lone Star Rail project. The passenger rail project would have connected every city between San Antonio and Georgetown. According to the project designers, the passenger rail service would have made it possible to get from downtown San Antonio to downtown Austin in 75 minutes during rush hour.
Union Pacific has motivated its decision stating that running passenger trains on the same lines as freight traffic would not work. The railroad said the alignments and infrastructure needed to make it work are “unattainable”.
Last month, the project was about one-third of the way through its federal review and four cities and a community college had signed on for funding their parts of the mass transit plan.
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