In a blog post on The Hill, which is normally a respected Washington insider website, an article appeared this week that the writer apparently did not bother to let facts get in the way of her Texas high speed rail...
The group known as Texans Against High Speed Rail has initiated a campaign to flood the Surface Transportation Board in Washington with petitions that, even well couched in the guise of eminent domain, just want to flat out kill the Texas high...
To clear the air of misinformation being circulated by rural Texans trying to kill a high speed rail project between Dallas and Houston we asked Texas Central to clarify why they need approval from the Surface Transportation Board (STB) in...
The hits just keep on coming. It's another interesting month watching the rhetoric from rural interests intent on killing a high speed rail project between Dallas and Houston.
First we heard from Marty Hiles, Commissioner, Ellis County Community Development Sub Regional Planning Commission.
Mr. Hiles blasted...
April 20, 2016 -
Bill O'Reilly is not one to mince words. The conservative host of the O'Reilly Factor, the #1 cable news show in the U.S. thinks that our infrastructure and mass transportation systems are a mess. On his opening...
April 20, 2016 - Opinion / Austin-American Statesman / Sid Covington / Lone Star Rail
Last week, the Lone Star Rail District board of directors voted overwhelmingly to improve our region’s mobility by endorsing the completion of an environmental impact study...
In an Op-Ed article Texas Central CEO Tim Keith reiterates that the company is not looking for state or federal help in building their 240 mile high speed rail line between Dallas and Houston.
In the March 24, 2016 release Keith...
DART rail service has brought billions to Dallas economy
Spur development, get people to work and save precious time
TEX Rail will open in 2018 with more than 9,000 daily riders
BY KATHY INGLE AND JEFF DAVIS
April 5, 2016 - Special to the...
The calls to kill a $10 billion dollar high speed rail project in Texas seemed to come fast and furious.... until now.
In a news story Monday, April 4 in the Waco Tribune Waco and McLennan County leaders came out in support of...
April 2016 will be remembered decades from now as the month when Rollin Bredenberg retired as V.P., Capacity Planning & Operations Research at BNSF Railway.
Rollin was not only a railroader's railroader but he was also deeply involved with transportation issues...