Texas high-speed rail project faces fight over eminent domain

[TexasTowelie]

FERRIS -- As far as David Risinger Sr. is concerned, just because a company calls itself a railroad doesn’t make it one.

Especially, he said, when the company in question, Texas Central Railroad and Infrastructure Inc., didn’t exist until 2012 — and to this day owns no depots, locomotives, tracks or ties.

That’s why when Risinger, who owns a 220-acre farm near Ferris — about 25 miles south of downtown Dallas — was contacted by a land consultant representing the high-speed rail company who was seeking permission to enter his property for a survey, he refused.

Texas Central Railroad and Infrastructure, which is trying to buy up land for a proposed high-speed rail line between Dallas and Houston, then filed a lawsuit alleging that Risinger, 81, had no right to stand in the way of the project.

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[Javaman]

1. this has the same wiff of bullshit when austin bought up the land for the formula 1 track or

the state when they bought up the land for the completely useless 130 corridor.