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Texas Central High Speed Rail Wins "Next Big Idea" Award

March 31st, 2016
March 31, 2016 - TRA Newswire Texas’ soon to be built high-speed railway between Dallas and Houston was honored Tuesday night for its big idea to transform travel in America, giving Texans a new safe, affordable and reliable transportation choice. The Urban Land Institute’s...

ALERT: TX Senate hearing Tuesday re high speed rail

March 28th, 2016
March 28, 2016 - TRA Newswire On Tuesday, March 29th, at 9:00am, in the Senate Chamber, the Texas Senate Affair Committee will be holding a Public Hearing regarding eminent domain and rights of property owners. The interim charge the Committee will...

Dallas Morning News: High-speed rail opponents are shortsighted

March 16th, 2016
March 16, 2016 - Dallas Morning News Editorial As flip-flops go, Brazos Valley Council of Governments’ new opposition to high-speed rail between Dallas and Houston is more than baffling. It is bad policy, too. The regional planner had backed the bullet train...

Dallas-Houston high-speed rail loses Brazos Valley COG support

March 12th, 2016
March 11, 2016 - WFAA.com A regional planning commission in the Brazos Valley has passed a resolution opposing the proposed high-speed railway between Dallas and Houston. The Brazos Valley Council of Governments once backed the proposed high-speed rail, plans for which included...

Texans Against High Speed Rail file their first lawsuit

March 3rd, 2016
March 3, 2016 - TRA Newswire Let the lawsuits begin. Texans Against High Speed Rail, a group with seemingly deep pockets, has filed a suit against the Texas Attorney General and Texas Department of Transportation seeking information on the Texas Central High-Speed Rail...

The Aggie Student Senate and politicians don't outweigh public opinion on high speed rail

March 3rd, 2016
We purposely waited a few weeks to see if the outcome of a public poll that was conducted by The Eagle, a newspaper in Bryan/College Station, would significantly change. The answer is no. By an almost 3-1 majority the readers of the Brazos Valley newspaper still want...

Are Aggies really against high speed rail in Texas? Really??

February 12th, 2016
Or was this a well orchestrated slick political ploy backed by select state legislators and rural county administrators? February 12, 2016 - The headline reads: Aggie Student Senate Opposes Eminent Domain for Train | NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth. Texans Against High Speed Rail issued a news...

Will Texas nay-sayers be against Interstate-14 like they are against high speed rail?

February 7th, 2016
February 7, 2016 Displaced homeowners, farms and ranches cut in two, 24/7 noise issues, disruption of a rural way of life. It's enough to get country folks boiling mad and it ought to be. No, we are not talking about some Texas and...

Congressman Kevin Brady joins anti-high speed rail rant

February 6th, 2016
February 5, 2016 - KBTX.com CONROE, Texas - The man who represents the eastern portion of the Brazos Valley wants Texas' attorney general to give his opinion on eminent domain when it comes to a proposed high speed rail line that...

Dallas-Houston High-Speed Rail Opponents Prep For Legal Fight

February 6th, 2016
February 2, 2016 - NBCDFW.com Opponents of a plan to build a high-speed train between Dallas and Houston are gearing up for a legal fight. "Texans Against High-Speed Rail" announced a partnership with The Beckham Group, a Dallas law firm that will...

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