Amtrak is planning to cancel the Heartland Flyer, a train linking Fort Worth & Oklahoma City, this summer because Texas has failed to identify the $3.5 million needed to fund it
https://www.keranews.org/transportation/2026-05-01/discontinuation-heartland-flyer-rail-service-announced-txdot
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Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 100d
Interesting that this is happening during an ongoing gas price crisis. Oh wait, it's a republican administration, no wonder they hate their constituents.
protist@retrofed.com · 18 pts · 100d
$3.5 million is chump change in the Texas budget
aramis87@fedia.io · 9 pts · 99d
It's also Texas, the One Star State. They don't believe in public transit, they're willing to shoot themselves in the head to avoid funding anything that might benefit their citizens, and they want all the money to go to rich white men.
frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 5 pts · 100d
I was told we had budget surplus...
PumpUpTheJam@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 99d
"Fucking California." - Texan's
yessikg@fedia.io · 3 pts · 99d
Texass being ass as always
Nyadia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 100d
Oh no, not the train from ass to toilet!