Texas Central just had a court decision go its way, meaning high speed rail in Texas may not be dead after all.Well go figure. Just when it seemed like Texas Central—and its ambitious plan to build the state’s first high-speed rail line–was swirling the drain, the Texas Supreme Court has given the company a significant win.
The case, which has been working its way through the courts over the past few years, centered on James Miles, a Leon County landowner who has been one of many rural residents with property in the train’s path to push back on Texas Central having eminent domain in its back pocket after company representatives attempted to survey his land.
Miles had gotten traction with this stance when the case originally went to trial, but the state court of appeals reversed the decision in favor of Texas Central. The January hearing before the Supreme Court seemed to indicate the court was leaning toward Miles’ view of things.
Meanwhile Texans Against High Speed Rail, the organization representing landowners who don’t want these trains zipping through their pastures and fields, hit back at the company in one of its most vulnerable spots right now—the mess that Texas Central seems to be in."Tax-paying Texans are at risk of having their land condemned by a company that can’t even afford to pay property taxes on the land already under its control," Texans Against High Speed Rail stated on Facebook.
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