John Whitmire: “700,000 people travel to Houston each day.”

“The problem is the legislature, family farms are all the way between here and Dallas and they don't want to give up their property rights. The courts have backed them. But folks, I mentioned a while ago, 700,000 people travel to Houston each day. We need commuter rail, we need our rail system to get to our airports. And we're actually looking at the feasibility of that. I mean, the north line rail should not stop in Northline.” (20:50–20:54)

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