Three North Texas business icons made a rare joint public appearance Thursday to talk about transportation, technology and the future.
At the annual meeting of the Dallas Citizens Council, they promoted technology advances that may also boost safety and better education to prepare the workforce that will be needed as North Texas population surges.
Ross Perot Junior, Chairman of the Perot Companies and Hillwood Development, moderated the discussion with the chief executive officers of Southwest Airlines and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad.
Perot had an explosive population estimate.
“100 years we’ll have 33 million people. By 2130, we’ll have 33 million people here,” Perot said.
His Hillwood built the Victory project around American Airlines Center in Dallas and many other really large North Texas developments.
Southwest CEO Bob Jordan said his…
