May 8, 2017 - Dallas Morning News - Letters to the Editor -
We support the proposed Texas Bullet Train that will connect North Texas, Houston and the Brazos Valley. Developed, built and operated without state or federal grants, this project...
May 1, 2017 - Fort Worth Star-Telegram Editorial Board -
Attempts by rural legislators and others in the path of a proposed high-speed rail line between Houston and Dallas have a chance to move their cause forward Thursday at a hearing...
April 13, 2017 - Dallas Morning News - Texas Senator Don Huffines -
By 2050, Dallas and Houston together, according to the Texas Demographic Center, will likely share an increase of more than 4.5 million new residents. To accommodate that growth,...
April 6, 2017 - Texas Tribune TribTalk -
By Peter LeCody, April 6, 2017
Photo by Norihiro Kataoka
Passenger rail as a transportation option for Texans is usually ignored by the Legislature without a second thought. Not this session. More than two dozen...
April 4, 2017 - Irving TX Based Institute for Policy Innovation - Tom Giovanetti -
In Texas, some conservatives wrongly think that opposition to high speed rail is a conservative principle. This is like saying that opposition to trucks, or cell...
April 3, 2017 - Dmagazine.com -
The impact of some of these bills on Dallas transportation would be massive.
Perhaps the scariest bill is one the Dallas Morning News reported on over the weekend. It would require communities to stage a public referendum...
March 25, 2017 - Glenn Evans - Longview News-Journal -
A planned east-west train route allowing Longview residents to ride to New York and beyond is imperiled under a federal budget proposal that would eliminate funding for long-haul Amtrak routes, including...
March 23, 2017 -
Attendees at the Transit Coalition of North Texas were told today that there are 65 bills in the Texas House and Senate that could ultimately end present and future passenger train service, whether at the local or regional...
March 16, 2017 - National Association of Railroad Passengers -
The White House released its “skinny budget”—a general budget outline with few programmatic details and while infrastructure investment has been a major theme of President Trump’s campaign and first 100 days, his...
February 28, 2016 - Mitchell Schnurman - Dallas Morning News Business Insight -
As a transit option, a Texas bullet train would be a major breakthrough. As an economic development project, it would be off the charts.
That’s because taxpayers don’t have...