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Transpo Sec Buttigieg at SXSW Virtual: 2020's a turning point in transportation

March 18th, 2021
March 18, 2021 - TRA Austin - Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, appearing today on this years' virtual South By Southwest (SXSW) conference, expects that President Joe Biden will soon issue a "once in a century" plan to reshape transportation in the...

Why we are keen on 2 bills this session: Tx Mobility Fund & Transpo Reinvestment Zones

March 17th, 2021
March 17, 2021 - TRA Austin - The Chairs of the Texas House and Senate Transportation Committee have filed identical bills to put more punch into transportation projects this session. Texas Rail Advocates supports the Transportation Chairs forward thinking on both tracks...

TGIF: Texas Legislature bill filing ended March 12, here's lowdown on rail issues

March 14th, 2021
Updated March 18, 2021 - TRA Austin - Update: A number of bills which are being supported by Texas Rail Advocates can be found on our Under The Dome 2021 rail issues webpage http://texasrailadvocates.org/2021-texas-legislature-rail-issues/ Those include a significant bill filed before the...

New debate over Dallas D-2 downtown subway transit plan

March 12th, 2021
March 12, 2021 - NBCDFW.com, Ken Kalthoff - Years of planning and spending on a downtown Dallas rail transit subway could be derailed for good without an agreement on the latest plan by the end of March. Dallas Area Rapid Transit is...

Covid-19 rescue plan will restore daily Amtrak service, assist ailing transit systems

March 11th, 2021
March 11, 2021 - TRA Newswire - Hours after the House of Representatives sent a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package with emergency funds for intercity rail and transit to the president’s desk, Amtrak announced that it will restore 12 long-distance routes...

Bruce Bugg of San Antonio suits up for another term as Gov. Abbott's highway-paving quarterback

March 9th, 2021
March 8, 2021 - Bruce Selcraig, Staff Reporter / expressnews.com - When Gov. Greg Abbott reappointed San Antonio bank chairman and arts patron J. Bruce Bugg Jr. to a six-year term last month as chairman of the Texas Transportation Commission, even...

Post-storm intermodal congestion in Dallas could last weeks longer

March 9th, 2021
March 8, 2021 - JOC.com - Chassis equipment providers are warning importers, some of whom have been waiting to retrieve their containers for almost a month, that it could be another couple of weeks before cargo flow returns to normal at...

Tex-Mex rail bridge needs a $35 million state appropriation to start cross-border service

March 8th, 2021
March 8, 2021 - TRA Newswire - No trains will be able to cross the newly rebuilt Presidio, Texas-Ojinaga, Mexico international rail bridge until the Texas legislature appropriates $35 million for the final touch, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)...

New DFW High-Speed Transportation newsletter launched

March 7th, 2021
March 6, 2021 - TRA Newswire - The North Central Texas Council of Governments has released the first edition of a news newsletter called DFW High-Speed Update. NCTCOG announced that the newsletter will be published monthly and include the latest available information...

Opinion: Why vote to fund something you won’t ever use?

March 7th, 2021
March 1, 2021 - Greg Garrett, Senior Columnist, Baptistnews.com - Last fall, my hometown of Austin, Texas, put a monumental public transportation bond question on the ballot: light rail, tunnels underneath downtown, electric buses. Austin’s Capitol Metro called the plan “bold.”...

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