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Fort Worth has a great little TEXRail train station with an awful name – not anymore!

March 26th, 2019
March 26, 2019 - Fort Worth Star Telegram - Gordon Dickson - Since it opened in 2001, the Fort Worth Intermodal Transportation Center has served as a gorgeous little train and bus station – but with a truly awful acronym for...

Testimony taken on HB 1370 - one of the many anti-High Speed Rail bills

March 26th, 2019
March 26, 2019 - TRA Newswire - Testimony was taken Monday in Austin on House Bill 1370, one of the gaggle of bills filed by rural lawmakers to stop a private company from bringing high-speed rail to Texas. The bill, which was...

DART chief urges Congress to pass infrastructure bill, citing coming work on Cotton Belt and D2 lines

March 25th, 2019
March 19, 2019 - Dallas Morning News  - Dallas Area Rapid Transit president Gary Thomas on Monday urged Congress to deliver a far-reaching infrastructure bill, joining other public transit leaders in stressing the importance of funding billions of dollars in improvements. Speaking...

G&W's Rail Link adds Port of Shreveport to its operations

March 23rd, 2019
March 19, 2019 - Progressive Railroading - Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (G&W) announced its Rail Link Inc. subsidiary obtained a rail service contract from the Port of Caddo-Bossier in Shreveport, Louisiana. Rail Link will move inbound and outbound materials for the port. Located...

Amtrak's 2020 grant request shows path for Heartland Flyer expansion

March 23rd, 2019
March 23, 2019 - TRA Newswire - Amtrak has released it's 2020 General and Legislative Annual Report which includes its fiscal year Grant Request to Congress and it finally includes some positive news for the Heartland Flyer. The one daily round-trip from...

Rep Harris' "stop high speed rail" bill gets a hearing Monday

March 22nd, 2019
March 22, 2019 - TRA Newswire - Palestine State Representative Cody Harris' House Bill 1370 gets a hearing Monday before the House Administration Committee. The bill calls for a creation of a joint-interim committee on high-speed rail development. "While the title of...

Austin filing deadline passes - now to sort the bad rail bills

March 8th, 2019
March 7, 2019 - TRA Newswire - 22 really bad railroad bills have been filed so far this session in the Texas legislature and that's before a last minute deluge of 532 pieces of proposed legislation were filed Thursday and almost...

TRA response to Palestine Herald-Press story on high-speed rail

March 8th, 2019
March 8, 2019 - TRA opinion - Texas Rail Advocates has responded to a story that showed a grim picture of the proposed private-investor high-speed rail project between Dallas and Houston. TRA President Peter LeCody responded to a March 7, 2019 story...

Dallas' new Dept of Transpo is making plans for a better-connected city

March 6th, 2019
March 5, 2019 - Emily Nonko - A photo of a construction site spilling onto a downtown sidewalk. Another of a car parked on the sidewalk. Prickly cacti blocking access to a crosswalk button. This is all evidence, according to D Magazine, that Dallas...

Texas Central’s high-speed train named a top global infrastructure project

March 5th, 2019
March 5, 2019 - TRA Newswire - CG/LA lists Texas train project as one of the top 50 infrastructure projects in the world Houston-to-North Texas line also ranks as one of the nation’s most important projects The Texas high-speed train has...

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