March 29, 2022 - TRA Newswire - San Antonio, the 7th largest U.S. city with no area-wide public rail system, is in line to get $158 million from President Biden's 2023 budget request for.... more buses. Biden released his FY 2023 budget...

March 25, 2020 - TRA Newswire - Amtrak President /CEO Stephen Gardner and Chief Financial Officer Tracie Winbigler met recently with U.S. Rep Henry Cuellar (D-Laredo) to discuss passenger service between San Antonio and Monterrey, Mexico. According to San Antonio radio...

November 24, 2021 - BNAmericans.com - Mexican officials confirmed plans for a 400km high-speed train between Nuevo León state capital Monterrey and San Antonio in Texas. The idea emerged in the 1990s already, when the US, Mexico, and Canada signed the first...

September 1, 2021 - Randy Diamond, San Antonio Express-News - For more than three decades, politicians and rail advocates have dreamed of building a passenger train link between San Antonio and Monterrey, northern Mexico’s largest city. Each time, they’ve woken up with...

EXCLUSIVE - Updated August 5, 2021  - TRA Newswire - In a special Texas Rail Advocates online presentation Wednesday evening August 4th, officials of Mexico's state-owned rail system laid out how they want to address a passenger rail corridor between Monterrey,...

July 5, 2021 - TRA Newswire - Ever since Amtrak unveiled its vision to expand passenger rail service in key short-run corridors around the country earlier this year, interest has been growing in broadening train service to link Texas' major cities...

February 12, 2021 - TRA News Report - Amtrak CEO Bill Flynn, in a letter to Congress, has outlined several priorities for the national passenger rail network that he runs. Approval by Congress of two of Flynn's priorities would have a...

January 18, 2021 - San Antonio Express-News / Bruce Selcraig - For too long, say critics of the city’s long-term transportation planning, the bureaucracy’s car-centric mentality has focused primarily on accommodating auto traffic and improving roads rather than enhancing all modes...

December 24, 2020 - bondbuyer.com - Passage of transit funding referendums in two large Texas cities hinged on coalition building, learning from past mistakes, project planning and effective outreach during the COVID-19 pandemic, their supporters say. Voters last month in San...

October 30, 2020 - ExpressNews.com - Greg Jefferson, Business Editor - Let’s start on a positive note: The Lone Star Rail District was very good at using tax dollars to keep a couple of people employed and consultants flush with billable...