The Texas Triangle: A rising megaregion unlike all others (2021)
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Re: The Texas Triangle: A rising megaregion unlike all others (2021)
#2I never thought about it before - but seeing that chart of "Megaregions", almost none of my work travel within the US from the last 15 years has been outside of those regions.
Re: The Texas Triangle: A rising megaregion unlike all others (2021)
#3Megaregions as a concept seems to make sense. Even as a resident of the aforementioned triangle, I'm not sure that we have much evidence for Texas exceptionalism here.
Re: The Texas Triangle: A rising megaregion unlike all others (2021)
#4(2021). Maybe the book mentions it, but the article doesn’t cover the massive benefit of the Triangle’s proximity to Mexico. Mexico has a strong demographic profile and is a ready source of workers for manufacturing.
Re: The Texas Triangle: A rising megaregion unlike all others (2021)
#5As someone who recently moved to the Texas triangle, I’m baffled by the lack of good transportation options between the three cities. It’s a 3-4 hour drive and while there is a train, freight gets priority. So the train takes anywhere from 3-7 hours. You can fly but with security any sort of delay and it would faster to drive.
Re: The Texas Triangle: A rising megaregion unlike all others (2021)
#6As someone who recently moved to the Texas triangle, I’m baffled by the lack of good transportation options between the three cities. It’s a 3-4 hour drive and while there is a train, freight gets priority. So the train takes anywhere from 3-7 hours. You can fly but with security any sort of delay and it would faster to drive.
other than maybe parts of the Northeast Corridor, do any of the othe "megaregions" solve that problem?
Re: The Texas Triangle: A rising megaregion unlike all others (2021)
#7As someone who recently moved to the Texas triangle, I’m baffled by the lack of good transportation options between the three cities. It’s a 3-4 hour drive and while there is a train, freight gets priority. So the train takes anywhere from 3-7 hours. You can fly but with security any sort of delay and it would faster to drive.
It's true, lack of highly available public transportation between the cities puts us behind other regions (not to mention other countries). I've been doing the ATX -> HTX drive for years.
Best private alternative I've found is Vonlane (https://vonlane.com/) - takes longer than flying but it's a business class bus so you can get work done.
Re: The Texas Triangle: A rising megaregion unlike all others (2021)
#8As someone who recently moved to the Texas triangle, I’m baffled by the lack of good transportation options between the three cities. It’s a 3-4 hour drive and while there is a train, freight gets priority. So the train takes anywhere from 3-7 hours. You can fly but with security any sort of delay and it would faster to drive.
other than maybe parts of the Northeast Corridor, do any of the othe "megaregions" solve that problem?
LA/OxnardVentura/SanDiego is an easy train. As is Portland/Seattle.
Re: The Texas Triangle: A rising megaregion unlike all others (2021)
#9As someone who recently moved to the Texas triangle, I’m baffled by the lack of good transportation options between the three cities. It’s a 3-4 hour drive and while there is a train, freight gets priority. So the train takes anywhere from 3-7 hours. You can fly but with security any sort of delay and it would faster to drive.
other than maybe parts of the Northeast Corridor, do any of the othe "megaregions" solve that problem?
The San Diego - LA basin is moderately well covered, but the train is still slower than driving - most of the time.
Unless you have exceptionally fast and direct rail, the train is almost always slower than driving, even in Europe, when counted door to door.
Re: The Texas Triangle: A rising megaregion unlike all others (2021)
#10As someone who recently moved to the Texas triangle, I’m baffled by the lack of good transportation options between the three cities. It’s a 3-4 hour drive and while there is a train, freight gets priority. So the train takes anywhere from 3-7 hours. You can fly but with security any sort of delay and it would faster to drive.
A plan to connect Houston to Dallas with a bullet train has been grinding its way along for years now[0]. Since Texas is loath to use eminent domain, the planning phase has been stalled for a loooong time.
[0]: https://www.texascentral.com/project/
Edit: Whoops, wrong project. Still, the plans are there, we just need willing politicians.