Thursday, May 20, 2010

Cotton Belt Rail Stations, Richardson and Plano both desire an east side station (Texas)

Fast forward two decades and then some from the past. Richardson may have an advantage in forging a PPP that prefers to have Cotton Belt routed for PGBT DART station than for a 12th St Plano station. Politics, land and legacy lean to Richardson in my opinion. Specifically in regard to land, it is a generous greenfield (undeveloped land area) at PGBT except the DART facility itself and planned (funded subdiving) roads. Engineering considerations may look to favor Plano but traffic comes into play. I may expound on these comments later. Ian (Dallas News) and Mark (The Wheel's Still In Spin) say interesting things on the subject.

Long Train Runnin (DB)