The country’s first high-speed rail project could happen in Texas, where Houston and Dallas would be connected along a 240-mile stretch of railroad. What Texas Central Partners and other high-speed rail advocates are calling the Texas Central Rail, however, Citizens Against Government Waste considers a colossal waste of taxpayer dollars.

When the TCR was first introduced, executives at TCP claimed that no taxpayer dollars would be used to finance the project. However, this has proven to be false, since TCR’s former president and chief executive officer, Tim Keith, stated that TCP would in fact be seeking federal taxpayer dollars to help finance the construction debt of the project. Due to the overwhelming evidence against its viability, there is little doubt that TCR will lead to taxpayer dollars being wasted for an unwise and unwarranted project.