Why not encourage the Texas Department of Transportation\u00a0to design the upper deck of Interstate 35 between San Antonio and Austin with suspended monorails for high speed transit?<\/p>\n
We already have the right of way.<\/p>\n
My guess is that the engineering would require virtually no upgrades as the weight of the monorail cars and passengers on any particular span probably would be less than one 18-wheeler.<\/p>\n
With a two-rail system, there would be no interference between north and southbound trams, and they could be dispatched only as needed, avoiding empty trains.<\/p>\n
I am all for passenger rail on Interstate 35 between San Antonio and Austin.<\/p>\n
In my military career, I lived in several different areas of the country and was so impressed with the options available on the East Coast, such as subways, light rail and commuter trains. I was a frequent user of those services.<\/p>\n
The answer is not to keep building more and more lanes on our interstates. We need\u00a0multimodal solutions that include not only roads but also rail, buses, subways and airplanes.<\/p>\n
I find it interesting, however, that Travis County is commissioning a study to build a rail line from downtown San Antonio to its airport. It sounds very self-serving to me.<\/p>\n
San Antonio has an airport, and it\u2019s expanding. We need to use it.<\/p>\n
Remember, airlines use data about which airports people fly out of. The more San Antonio residents use Austin\u2019s airport, the more it will grow at the expense of our own.<\/p>\n
As an aging father and grandfather, I have experienced more than a few examples of youngsters threatening to do something extreme to get their way.<\/p>\n
As they grow older, such behavior no longer occurs.<\/p>\n
Now I have witnessed our president acting in a manner that brought such childish tantrums to mind when he canceled what was to be a bipartisan housing bill signing.<\/p>\n
Instead he chose to allow the bill to become law without his signature because Congress will not pass his restrictive voting bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why not encourage the Texas Department of Transportation\u00a0to design the upper deck of Interstate 35 between San Antonio…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-373808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}