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...
February 21, 2017 - TRA Newswire - Updated
A group of rural state lawmakers have filed a slate of legislation to push back against Texas Central Railway's proposal to construct a high-speed rail line between Dallas and Houston.
Senators Birdwell (R-Granbury), Creighton (R-Conroe), Kolkhorst...
February 19, 2017 - Commentary from TRA President Peter LeCody -
And I always thought that the CATO folks cherished private enterprise over taxpayer funded projects. Gee, was I dead wrong.
I guess they need to have a talk with Randall O'Toole....