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All aboard: bullet train station planned for the Cedars neighborhood In Dallas

August 4th, 2019
July 9, 2019 -  Hewitt Habgood Realty Group - The North Texas Bullet Train project is currently underway with plans to shuttle passengers back and forth between Houston and Dallas faster, safer and more efficiently than current modes of transportation. Capable...

Is Amtrak slowly killing its national network trains - death by 1,000 cuts?

July 31st, 2019
July 31, 2019 - TRA Opinion - Is Amtrak management ever so slowly trying to shed itself of its national network trains that run across prairies, the piney woods of East Texas and through majestic mountains of this country by claiming...

Project Gridlock: How did Austin traffic get so bad?

July 28th, 2019
Melanie Torre - Central Texas is growing at an unprecedented pace. By 2045 the number of people living in the region will double -- pushing five million, according to a regional arterials study by the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization. According to that same...

Opinion: A new vision for I-45 and Houston

July 19th, 2019
July 13, 2019 - Geoff Carleton - Houston Chronicle - A “boondoggle” and a “Texas-sized mess of a highway plan” is how one national headline recently described the proposal to spend more than $7 billion in public dollars to rebuild and realign...

Opinion: Does Amtrak management want to take apart the national network?

July 19th, 2019
July 19, 2019 - Opinion - Charles Florio - I live in Longview Texas about 25 miles east of Tyler and 120 miles east of Dallas. Longview and Tyler (Mineola) are about 100,000 population each. My wife and I travel on...

What’s the outlook for rail-hauled fracking sand in Texas and the rail construction aggregate markets?

July 5th, 2019
June 2019 - Freight Waves - Commentary by Jim Blaze - Everything we plow, harvest or mine started as rock and evolved in time. Given enough time, solid rock exposed at the earth’s surface is broken down into rock and mineral...

Boondoggle: A Texas-Sized mess of a highway plan for Houston

June 24th, 2019
June 17, 2019 - Opinion - Gideon Weissman and Matthew Casale - Houston expands a highway through its center, for a staggering $7 billion In this year’s installment of its annual “Highway Boondoggles” report, Gideon Weissman of Frontier Group and Matthew Casale of U.S....

Texas Rail Advocates commends lawmakers for rejecting unnecessary regulation of high-speed rail

May 27th, 2019
May 27, 2019 - TRA Opinion - Move is a victory for those that celebrate small government and free market principles With the 2019 legislative session in the rear view mirror, Texans looking to build a competitive and efficient transportation infrastructure...

Railroad Day brings GoRail advocates to Capitol Hill

May 25th, 2019
May 15, 2019 - GoRail.org - After 350+ meetings with members of Congress, another productive Railroad Day on Capitol Hill is in the books. The day convenes folks from all sectors of the freight rail industry, from Class I and short line railroads...

Rebuttal to WaPo editorial: focusing on profits misses the point of Amtrak

May 18th, 2019
May 17, 2019 - Opinion - Jim Mathews, Rail Passengers Association - The May 4 Washington Post editorial “A road to salvation?,” attacking America’s long-distance train service, trotted out the same tired talking points about profits and losses that anti-rail interests...

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