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Texans Against High Speed Rail suing state agencies for release of bullet train documents

April 2nd, 2017
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...

Texas Budget Wall Could Stop Bullet Train Plan

April 2nd, 2017
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...

Texas bullet train firm calls provision added to Senate budget a "job killer"

March 15th, 2017
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...

Texas Central fights legislators' efforts to kill high-speed rail project

March 9th, 2017
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...

Dallas News: Dallas - Houston Bullet Train Seems Like A No-Brainer

February 28th, 2017
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...

Texas Central asks for public support against flurry of anti-rail bills

February 24th, 2017
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...

North Texas COG OKs backstop for high speed rail environmental study

February 24th, 2017
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...

Lawmakers file flurry of misguided bills to derail the Dallas-to-Houston bullet train

February 24th, 2017
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...

Rural Lawmakers File 18 Bills to Derail Bullet Train between Dallas and Houston

February 21st, 2017
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...

Randall O'Toole's Misguided Effort to Derail The Texas Bullet Train

February 19th, 2017
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....

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