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Former Texas Rangers baseball club Pres and lawyer Schieffer ready to play ball with high-speed rail
IRVING — Former Texas Rangers baseball club President and prominent Fort Worth lawyer Tom Schieffer has agreed to join the effort to bring high-speed rail to North Texas, officials say.
Schieffer, whose résumé also includes stints as U.S. ambassador to Japan and Australia, is joining Texas Central Railway as a senior or strategic adviser, several people attending the Texas Transportation and Infrastructure Summit in Irving said Wednesday.
Texas Central Railway is a company formed to build a proposed high-speed rail line from North Texas to Houston. The group is collaborating with Central Japan Railway to bring trains capable of going 220 mph to the region by 2021.
Texas Central Railway director Travis Kelly declined to comment on Schieffer’s hiring. Schieffer couldn’t be reached for comment because he was traveling.
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/08/07/5063916/schieffer-ready-to-play-ball-with.html#storylink=cpy
Related article: http://transportationblog.dallasnews.com/2013/08/tom-schieffers-name-gives-octane-to-texas-high-speed-rail-project.html/
