Its not a hypothetical argument. Like I said I have been following this from the first word. They claim they are a railroad company and have the right to eminent domain. The state ruled said they are not a railroad company and don't have that right. They claim to the state they have a 90% cross over from driving to riding the train. Those that work in statistics says that is physically impossible and at best they could see is 20% cross over. The price of tickets is exactly what they said ranging from $200 to $400 one way. Price of tickets will change based off demand, high demand days would see a increase in price.

Now does this effect me? currently it does not but if it gets built in full creating a triangle it will effect me directly then. But in the end it doesn't matter because this will never happen it will be stopped. They have been talking about high speed rail in Texas for the last 60 years and it has yet to happen because it isn't self sufficient. Look at California they have the most expensive slowest bullet train and it was started the company went under and now the tax payers in the state is on the hook for it. Same thing will happen here considering that this company doesn't even have the money to purchase all the land let alone build a 1/8th of the tracks. They also asked the state for a loan after saying they would use no state funds to build or operate this rail.

I am not against eminent domain, I am against what is a very obvious land grab that will put the tax payers on the hook for. Look at light rail here in Houston, not enough people are riding it so it is going free on tax payer money. If that isn't a sign of what will happen to this high speed rail I don't know what would be.