Dallas and Houston are just 250 miles apart. But by train, it took contributor Benton Graham 23 hours to travel between the two cities, on a route that first took him from Dallas to San Antonio for an eight-hour layover before continuing on to his final destination. The trip would have been shorter by bike, according to Google Maps.<\/p>\n
Graham\u2019s journey says a lot about the state of passenger rail in many parts of the US, where decades of falling ridership and service cuts have derailed the network\u2019s efficiency \u2014 and where efforts to improve speeds are often thwarted by politics. For Graham, there is at least one silver lining: \u201cTaking the train through Texas might not be the fastest\u2026\u201d he writes of his own experience, \u201cbut it\u2019s definitely the most social.\u201d Today on CityLab: Where Train Dreams Meet Reality in Texas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas and Houston are just 250 miles apart. But by train, it took contributor Benton Graham 23 hours…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[28492,910,7771,31367,102,104,103,56,17420,9835,287,82,27,6208],"class_list":["post-58242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-alphabet-inc-cl-a","tag-business","tag-cities","tag-citylab","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-houston","tag-japan","tag-new-jersey","tag-politics","tag-san-antonio","tag-texas","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58242","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=58242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}