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Follow rail legislation on TRA's Under the Dome page: bills are now being heard
April 21st, 2025
April 21, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Legislation is now being heard in Austin that affects the future of freight and passenger rail movement in Texas. Texas Rail Advocates is tracking a total of 26 bills that have been filed. Interested citizens...
Heartland Flyer End of the Line?
April 21st, 2025
April 21, 2025 - RailwayAge.com -Could June 30, a deadline only ten weeks away at this writing, mark the final run for Amtrak’s Heartland Flyer, the only passenger train in Oklahoma? That could happen, according to a report posted by the...
Kansas secures passenger rail future as Texas risks regional setback with Heartland Flyer
April 18th, 2025
April 18, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Heartland Flyer Extension gains ground while Texas hesitates on fundingTOPEKA, KS – In a bold move for regional mobility and economic development, Kansas has officially secured a future for expanded passenger rail service with the...
Texas House Transpo hears high-speed rail testimony: could be 7 years away from running Dallas-Houston trains
April 17th, 2025
April 17, 2025 - TRA Newswire -The effort to finally have high-speed train service in Texas got a shot in the arm today at the Capitol in Austin. Testimony from the organization reworking the finances of the bullet train project...
Fort Worth investment firm says Texas high-speed rail project is shovel ready as Amtrak involvement winds down
April 15th, 2025
April 15, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Yesterday, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced that Amtrak will no longer head up the Dallas-Houston high-speed rail project and will step aside so better equipped private sector interests can move the plan forward....
USDOT pulls $63 million Amtrak high-speed rail grant, Tx House to hear Texas Central testimony Thursday
April 14th, 2025
April 14, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Within a matter of hours, two breaking issues on the effort to bring high-speed rail to Texas. The next several days may tell us who is in charge of the Texas bullet train project...
Texas Republicans take aim at public transit in two major cities
April 13th, 2025
April 7, 2025 - TexasTribune.org -The Texas Legislature is considering bills that transit officials warn could hamper public transportation in the Austin and Dallas-Fort Worth regions. Texas lawmakers could imperil the future of public transportation in two of the state’s largest...
Service on Texas-Oklahoma partnered Heartland Flyer train could end as soon as June
April 13th, 2025
April 13, 2025 - TRA Newswire -North Texas is on the cusp of losing the only daily train that serves Fort Worth, Gainesville and Oklahoma points because the yearly funding for the train was stripped out of the Texas legislative...
Southwestern Rail Conference: Fight over Fort Worth high-speed route continues as potential funding cuts could affect projects
April 10th, 2025
April 9, 2025 - Forrworthreport.org, Eric E. Garcia -Over the course of April 7-8, rail advocates and industry leaders at the Southwestern Rail Conference in Hurst said they are monitoring state legislation that could affect high-speed rail.“The appetite for high-speed...
Southwestern Rail Conference: Texas officials study transportation, rail options as roads get more congested
April 9th, 2025
April 8, 2025 - Fortworthreport.org, Eric E. Garcia -Rapid growth in Texas’ five largest cities — and in between — is among the reasons state transportation officials are studying several transit options, including passenger rail improvements.The Texas Department of Transportation,...