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...

May 31, 2019 - TRA Newswire - An Interim Charge would allow for the exploration of rail options Move would ensure that Texas Department of Transportation would be ready to apply for federal cost-share funding and to pursue partnerships   The...

April 29, 2019 - Fox San Antonio - The Texas Department of Transportation is working with the Border Trade Advisory Committee to identify the transportation challenges for people commuting across the border. “What we’re doing is we’re inviting people to our community...

April 14, 2019 - Dear Texas Rail Advocates follower, Your help is needed for calls and emails to your Texas Representative and Senator in a most urgent way. If you want to ride high-speed rail in the future we are asking you...

March 3, 2019 - RioGrandeGuardian.com  - House Bill 71 would model a regional transit authority for the Valley based on the DART system in Dallas.   Two transportation leaders from South Texas have testified at the state Capitol on a bill to establish...

January 30, 2019 - Bruce Selcraig, San Antonio Express-News - The several dozen people who gathered at the Texas Department of Transportation’s San Antonio headquarters Tuesday to learn about the agency’s 30-year plans may constitute a tiny sample size, but many...

January 15, 2019 - mexiconewsdaily.com - Seventy gas stations in Guanajuato will import gasoline from Texas by rail to meet demand amid severe fuel shortages, the state governor has announced. Diego Sinhue Rodríguez Vallejo told a press conference that so far only Mobil...

September 25, 2018 - TRA Comment - U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao has announced that the Federal Transit Administration will award $366 million in grants to improve the safety and reliability of America’s bus systems and enhance mobility for transit riders....

August 31, 2018 - San Antonio Express-News / Progressive Railroading - Related: Union Pacific to provide crude-by-rail service in Pecos, Texas Oil producers in the Permian Basin, dealing with a shortage of pipelines, are increasingly turning to trucks and rail to ship...

July 19, 2018 - ProgressiveRailroading.com - Trinity Metro in Fort Worth, Texas, has hired Mike Stolzman as vice president and chief operating officer of rail. He has more than 20 years of railroad experience. In 1995, he joined the Chicago and Northwestern Railway...