May 25, 2017 - TRA Opinion - Last week was Infrastructure Week in Washington, DC. In the nation’s capital, online, and in cities across the country, advocates made the case for investing in the infrastructure that is the backbone of American prosperity...

May 20, 2017 - TRA Newswire - U.S. Congressman Pete Sessions, responding to a letter from one of our Texas Rail Advocates board members affirms his support for private investment in building the first high speed rail line in the country....

May 18, 2017 - kxas.com - Texas Central, the Dallas company planning to build a high-speed train between Dallas and Houston, has reached a deal with a major global consortium to design and build the project. An official announcement is expected within...

May 5, 2017 - TRA Newswire - The following is the testimony of TRA Executive Director Chris Lippincott at Thursday's Texas House Transportation Committee hearing on four bills that would either delay or outright kill a bullet train project and could...

May 1, 2017 - Fort Worth Star-Telegram Editorial Board - Attempts by rural legislators and others in the path of a proposed high-speed rail line between Houston and Dallas have a chance to move their cause forward Thursday at a hearing...

May 1, 2017 - TRA Newswire Four bills are slated to be heard by the Texas House Transportation Committee Thursday morning that could either delay or kill a privately funded bullet train project slated to be built between Dallas and Houston. "Now...

April 13, 2017 - Dallas Morning News - Texas Senator Don Huffines - By 2050, Dallas and Houston together, according to the Texas Demographic Center, will likely share an increase of more than 4.5 million new residents. To accommodate that growth,...

April 6, 2017 - Texas Tribune TribTalk - By Peter LeCody, April 6, 2017 Photo by Norihiro Kataoka Passenger rail as a transportation option for Texans is usually ignored by the Legislature without a second thought. Not this session. More than two dozen...

April 5, 2017 - TRA Newswire - AUSTIN - UPDATED All five of the bills that TRA opposed passed the committee today. Texas Rail Advocates Executive Director Chris Lippincott testified before the Senate Transportation Committee today and expressed TRA's views that oppose...

April 4, 2017 - Irving TX Based Institute for Policy Innovation - Tom Giovanetti - In Texas, some conservatives wrongly think that opposition to high speed rail is a conservative principle. This is like saying that opposition to trucks, or cell...