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Japan's 'supreme' bullet train aims to impress Texas with speed

June 11th, 2019
June 8, 2019 - asia.nikkei.com - TOKYO -- Central Japan Railway, also known as JR Tokai, on Thursday granted journalists their first test ride of the company's newest shinkansenbullet train, which clocked in at speeds topping 360 km per hour, breaking the...

Dallas' Union Station Renamed After US Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson

April 8th, 2019
April 6, 2019 - NBCDFW.com - History was made Saturday in honor of a legendary lawmaker and daughter of Dallas. Union Station was renamed Eddie Bernice Johnson Union Station. The legendary congresswoman, elected in November 1992, was surrounded by national, state and local...

Dallas' new Dept of Transpo is making plans for a better-connected city

March 6th, 2019
March 5, 2019 - Emily Nonko - A photo of a construction site spilling onto a downtown sidewalk. Another of a car parked on the sidewalk. Prickly cacti blocking access to a crosswalk button. This is all evidence, according to D Magazine, that Dallas...

Texas Central trailblazing privately funded HSR

December 8th, 2018
December 7, 2018 - RailwayAge.com - Despite producing more than one-third of U.S. crude oil output, urbanization, rapid economic growth and congestion mean Texans could be getting out of their cars and on to high-speed trains much sooner than most other...

Things to know about Houston-Dallas high-speed bullet train beginning construction in 2019

December 1st, 2018
November 28, 2018 - Houston Chronicle - Hold onto your seats. Construction on the new high-speed bullet train connecting Houston and Dallas will finally begin in late 2019, according to WFAA in Dallas. The Houston-Dallas line, the United States' first bullet train, will...

Texas Central high-speed train named among top North American infrastructure projects

November 1st, 2018
November 1, 2018 - TRA Newswire - CG/LA report calls Texas train a ‘game changer’ that will create jobs and advance public and business interests Train among four other North Texas projects recognized for their “strategic value” and technological innovations The...

How high-speed rail could finally give Dallas the glorious Union Station we deserve

October 14th, 2018
October 13, 2018 - Dallas Morning News - Robert  Wilonsky, Columnist - Thank God. We're finally going to talk about Union Station. I've already spent more than a year talking about it. Complaining, really. Because in 2017, I saw Denver's Union Station...

Texas cities want millennials living downtown. So why does the state keep building highways to the suburbs?

June 29th, 2018
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’...

As land acquisitions roll in, construction likely near for high-speed rail in Texas

June 21st, 2018
June 20, 2018 - communityimpact.com - Despite some public criticism—and even doubt if the project will come to pass—the proposed high-speed rail project between Houston and Dallas is on the fast track to becoming a reality, according to an official with...

Shameful! Dallas Union Station pulls the welcome mat for passengers and for parking

June 9th, 2018
June 9, 2018 - TRA Exclusive - Rail passengers are denied access to Dallas Union Station after 5:30pm, according to a posted sign on the doors of the historic landmark. The station, owned by the city of Dallas and bound by...

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