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Originally Posted by jtown,man
Visitors in San Antonio who come in via plane can now take a day or two and go cheap by train to visit Austin....ahhhhhhh I'm liking this! As someone else said, it could be used locally nice. My girlfriends aunt lives off Slaughter...and works downtown...so this would definitely work for her.
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Your girlfriend would be just as happy if this train never went north of Slaughter too. San Antonio doesn't need commuter rail all the way to Austin initially. The section between Austin and San Marcos is where the commuter train needs less UP trains the most. But south of San Marcos, there's already an alternate UP rail line where much of the freight trains can be moved, therefore LSTAR could build south of San Marcos first while waiting on a solution between San Marcos and Austin.....
The idea they need the entire distance of the corridor before building is foolish. They were probably going to build the LSTAR a section at a time anyways. What's so wrong building from the south to the north?