4 Reasons Texas Concerned Citizens are Targeting High Speed Rail

A group of former CEOs and executives formed a group that thought it would support high speed rail for the economic devleopment opportunities for Ellis County.

Once it was determined that Ellis County wouldn’t see economic development as the train speeds through, the group shifted course to killing high speed rail.

The group wants to keep high speed rail out of Ellis County because:

• agriculture contributes $160 million to the Ellis County economy
• land will have to be aquired in Ellis County from its farmers
• farms will be split in 2
• rail will be will be “a literal and figurative barrier to future growth, relegating Ellis County to a semi-rural purgatory”

Local communities,  Palmer, Ferris & Ennis , banded together to create the Community Development Sub-Regional Planning Commission in hopes of stopping high speed rail. The group believes the same tactic was used by sub regional planning commissions to stop TransTexas Corridor. 

Dallas Observer