The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the timeline of a planned Houston-to-Dallas high-speed rail line into uncertainty, as the company developing the $20-billion project has cut staff by nearly 30 employees and admits other challenges could complicate its plans further.
In a statement, Carlos Aguilar, CEO of Dallas-based Texas Central High-Speed Rail, called the March 27 staff reduction “an effort to make the best use of our current funding.” Although the company has taken other operational measures to cope with the outbreak, “we…still do not know what other impacts this will have.”