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The Battalion
Friday, May 6, 1994
Senator questions future B-GS high-speed rail
IV, May 6,
By Jan Higginbotham
The Battalion
The future of the Texas high-speed rail,
which was scheduled to make a home in
Bryan-College Station, is now in question.
State Senator Jim Turner recently sent a rec
ommendation to the Texas High-Speed Rail Au
thority suggesting the revocation of the con
tract with the Texas TGV franchise, the group
in charge of getting investors for the project.
Amy Kelley, a legislative aide for Turner, said
the senator is upset with the job performance
of Texas TGV.
“Based on their inability to meet their dead
lines, he thinks they are in default of their re
sponsibilities,” Kelley said. “They weren’t able
to meet their deadline. He feels they did not
prove their economic viability.”
The Texas TGV franchise received a contract
extension after they were unable to meet their
1992 deadline for producing project investors.
Kelley said the group failed to meet that exten
sion, so their contract is currently in question.
Kelley said the Texas High-Speed Rail Au
thority has referred the case to a judge who is
reviewing the status of Texas TGV’s contract.
She said the judge will make suggestions to the
board who will then decide the future of the
contract.
Dr. Thomas Saving, a professor of economics
at Texas A&M and the director of the Private
Enterprise Research Center, said the future of
high-speed rail will have little affect on the lo
cal economy.
“Having an actual stop here could have some
impact on the desirability of Bryan-College Sta
tion,” Saving said. “This could become a bed
room community for Houston. Business com
muters could actually use the train. In that
sense, it could have a positive affect on the
economy.”
Saving said the high-speed rail, realistically,
would have little affect on this area because the
train would make very few stops in Bryan-Col
lege Station.
“The economics part of it is that you would
not stop here. The politics part is that you
would have to stop here,” he said. “It will cer
tainly be a significant benefit for people in
Houston and Dallas.”
Saving said the project will likely fail because
it will be difficult to raise the needed $6 bil
lion.
“Tm not convinced they could ever raise 16
billion,” he said. “I will be very surprised if it
happens. They have a lot of competition, and
even without the competition, that is a lot of
money.”
Correction
Th
The pull-out quote in the story about an
audit of the Texas A&M System in Thursday’s
issue of The Battalion was not said by Dr. E
Dean Gage, interim president of the Universi
ty.
It was said by regent Raul Fernandez. The
Battalion regrets the error.
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