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Trains are the New Age planes

August 22nd, 2020
August 18, 2020 - SeekingAlpha.com - Commentary by James Hanshaw - I headed my article that way because it is not commonly known that true high-speed rail can do journeys city centre to city centre of up to 500 miles faster...

Big win for Texas Central Railway in Appeals Court decision

May 7th, 2020
May 7, 2020 - TRA Newswire - Texas’ Thirteenth Court of Appeals Rules in Favor of Texas Central May 7th decision reverses the ruling made by the 87th District Court of Leon County, Texas Earlier today, the Thirteenth Court of Appeals of Texas...

Desperate Texas lawmakers try to shut down Dallas-Houston high speed rail project, again

April 8th, 2020
Updated April 11, 2020 - TRA Newswire - A group of rural Texas state lawmakers are desperate to shut down construction of the state's first privately-financed high speed rail project as the days roll toward approval of the line between Dallas...

Show your support: FRA comment period still open for Texas Central high-speed rule making

April 2nd, 2020
April 2, 2020 - TRA Newswire - You still have time to send the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) a comment that favors the safety standards the agency is proposing for Texas Central's high speed rail line between Dallas and Houston. On March...

New 'pop-up' group formed trying to kill Dallas-Houston high speed rail project

September 24th, 2019
September 24, 2019 - TRA Newswire - A new opposition group has popped up in an attempt to kill the high-speed train line being developed between Dallas and Houston. Texas Rail Advocates has learned that 'Reroute The Route' is said to be...

Texas Central's Dallas-Houston line gets FRA nod on high-speed rail rules

September 5th, 2019
Updated September 5, 2019 - TRA Newswire  - Texas Central, the company that is developing high-speed rail between Houston and Dallas, announced that the Federal Railroad Administration approved a petition for rulemaking on how to operate trains up to 200 miles...

Legislature did no harm to Texas high-speed rail project this session

May 31st, 2019
May 31, 2019 - TRA Austin - With the Texas House and Senate now adjourned until January 2021, Texas Rail Advocates is happy to report that not a single bad rail bill that your advocacy organization opposed in committee passed during...

Bryan-College Station Chamber of Commerce shows support for high-speed rail in DC

May 18th, 2019
May 14, 2019 - KBTX.com - Bryan and College Station are becoming bigger and bigger, attracting more and more people, not to mention industry. The Chamber of Commerce delegates this week are concerned that B/CS, as a locale, isn’t accessible enough. That’s...

3 different high-speed rail projects progress in TX, FL, CA

May 18th, 2019
May 14, 2019 - governing.com - A new era of passenger rail in the United States may finally be on the way, according to high-speed rail advocates. Despite the Trump administration's recent move to yank federal funding from California’s long-troubled high-speed rail venture,...

The bad high-speed rail bills in the Texas House are officially dead

May 10th, 2019
May 10, 2019 - TRA Austin - Any time there is very little movement in high-speed rail bills in the Texas Legislature that is good news. All the eleven bad rail bills heard in the April 16th sub-committee, as well as those by...

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