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Intern riding trains and bike across U.S. & Texas to learn about transit

June 11th, 2016
June 10, 2016 -  College student Elena Studier’s journey stops Saturday in Fort Worth Halfway through 10,000-mile tour, she hasn’t been disappointed yet After riding her bike around Fort Worth, she’ll take TRE to Dallas BY GORDON DICKSON - Fort Worth Star Telegram America...

Welcome NARP's intern to Texas June 10-13 on her 10,000 mile rail/bike journey

June 7th, 2016
It's not unusual that a 20 year old college student would want to see the country over her summer break. What is out of the norm is that this young lady is doing it by rail. 10,000 miles. With her bike. The...

National rail advocates support P-HSR while other rurals says no to Texas Central

May 26th, 2016
June 6, 2016 - TRA Newswire UPDATE CORRECTION: In the original story, Congressman Jeb Hensarling was mis-identified as opposing Texas Central's high speed rail plan. We apologize for the error. Congressman Joe Barton of a nearby district had filed a comment...

The FAST Act explained: section by section summary

January 10th, 2016
NARP / TRA Newswire We're presenting several views of how the FAST ACT will impact freight and passenger rail, not only in Texas but nationally. The National Association of Railroad Passengers went through the passenger rail title to analyze all the promising...

Why it makes no sense to pit the Northeast Corridor against the National Network (hint: it's the economy, stupid)

December 11th, 2015
December 11, 2015 - National Association of Railroad Passengers Like the man once famously said, "There you go again." Newspapers and media outlets up and down the Northeast Corridor are once again buying into the mythology that Amtrak's NEC operation is profitable,...

PASSENGER RAIL INCLUDED IN FIRST EVER COMPREHENSIVE SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BILL

December 2nd, 2015
Updated December 4, 2015 - TRA Newswire / NARP / APTA First Fully-Funded, Long-Term Surface Transportation Bill in Ten Years (Washington) - President Obama signed into law a five year transportation infrastructure bill today. The measure will invest $61 billion in our...

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