June 26, 2018 - Texas Tribune - by Brandon Formby -
Less than 1 percent of TXDOT's budget is earmarked for public transit
As young, educated professionals push away old ideas about how to move around Texas cities, transportation planners’...
November 12, 2017 - Longview News-Journal -
The nation's passenger rail system and the Texas Eagle train that stops in Longview appear to be safe from federal budget cuts for now, but rail advocates say train travel needs more than status...
August 4 , 2017 - TRA Newswire -
Texas Rail Advocates has learned that an innovative funding approach may be available for completion of the Cotton Belt cross-region East-West passenger rail line that has been on the drawing board since the...
Jill Cowan - Economy Writer for Dallas Morning News -
Texas Central Partners has repeated its promise time and time again.
It will connect Dallas and Houston in 90 minutes with the nation’s first high-speed rail line. And it will get the...
June 3, 2017 - TRA Newswire -
The National Passenger Railroad Corporation, known to the public as Amtrak, has submitted its 2018 fiscal year budget to Congress, warning that a Trump Administration plan to kill all long distance train service would...