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...
March 31, 2017 - KBTX.com -
A battle is brewing in Austin over a study about a proposed high speed rail project that could connect Houston to Dallas.
The anti-bullet train group called Texans Against High Speed Rail is seeking the full...
March 20, 2017 - BondBuyer.com -
A potential budget wall banning state assistance to a privately financed $12 billion Texas bullet train could stop the proposal in its tracks, proponents warn of the latest legislative effort to torpedo the project.
The state...
March 15, 2017 - Texas Tribune
Officials with Texas Central Partners, the private firm developing the Houston-Dallas high-speed rail line, said the rider added to the state senate's proposed budget Wednesday would put their project at risk.
BY BRANDON FORMBY AND MATTHEW...
March 9, 2017 - Progressive Railroading Magazine -
Texas Central Partners LLC is fighting state lawmakers' plans to kill its privately funded project to build a Dallas-to-Houston bullet-train passenger service.
Earlier this week, almost 9,000 citizen letters in support of the project...
February 28, 2016 - Mitchell Schnurman - Dallas Morning News Business Insight -
As a transit option, a Texas bullet train would be a major breakthrough. As an economic development project, it would be off the charts.
That’s because taxpayers don’t have...
February 24, 2017 - TRA Newswire -
Texas Central, pushing back against a flurry of bills filed in the Texas legislature to kill their high speed train project between Dallas and Houston, put out a plea to everyday Texans asking for their...
February 24, 2017 - TRA Newswire -
The Regional Transportation Council of the North Central Texas Council of Governments has approved a measure to backstop the continuation of the environmental impact statement for the Dallas-Fort Worth Core Express, a proposed high-speed...
February 23, 2017 - Dallas Morning News Editorial
The Texas bullet train project is moving ahead, hitting milestones and keeping alive the audacious promise of a 90-minute train ride between Dallas and Houston. But yet again, a big potential roadblock has...