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Legislature did no harm to Texas high-speed rail project this session

May 31st, 2019
May 31, 2019 - TRA Austin - With the Texas House and Senate now adjourned until January 2021, Texas Rail Advocates is happy to report that not a single bad rail bill that your advocacy organization opposed in committee passed during...

Bryan-College Station Chamber of Commerce shows support for high-speed rail in DC

May 18th, 2019
May 14, 2019 - KBTX.com - Bryan and College Station are becoming bigger and bigger, attracting more and more people, not to mention industry. The Chamber of Commerce delegates this week are concerned that B/CS, as a locale, isn’t accessible enough. That’s...

3 different high-speed rail projects progress in TX, FL, CA

May 18th, 2019
May 14, 2019 - governing.com - A new era of passenger rail in the United States may finally be on the way, according to high-speed rail advocates. Despite the Trump administration's recent move to yank federal funding from California’s long-troubled high-speed rail venture,...

The bad high-speed rail bills in the Texas House are officially dead

May 10th, 2019
May 10, 2019 - TRA Austin - Any time there is very little movement in high-speed rail bills in the Texas Legislature that is good news. All the eleven bad rail bills heard in the April 16th sub-committee, as well as those by...

Week 15 at the Texas Legislature - 3 bad high-speed rail bills advance

May 4th, 2019
May 4, 2019 - TRA Austin - No movement on the Birdwell budget rider to stop high-speed rail Three bad rail bills out of House Transpo Committee There is no news to report this week on the budget rider (#44) that...

Texas Rail Advocates Calls for Transparency and Openness in Infrastructure Debate

April 27th, 2019
April 27, 2019 - TRA Opinion - TRA unites a broad coalition concerned about potential abuse of power   As the Texas Legislature enters the crucial conclusion of the 2019 legislative session, Texas Rail Advocates is calling on supporters of smart infrastructure...

Could Texas high-speed rail hit a speed bump this session?

April 26th, 2019
April 25, 2019 - Texas Tribune - Arya Sundaram- Lawmakers are pushing more measures than ever before that could delay the Dallas-Houston bullet train project — and there’s even a special subcommittee tackling the topic. High-speed rail developers have been eyeing a...

Luka Doncic supports high-speed rail in Texas, but is that enough to save it?

April 24th, 2019
April 24, 2019 - Fort Worth Star-Telegram - Gordon Dickson - Supporters of high-speed rail say they’re thrilled that Dallas Mavericks basketball standout Luka Doncic recently tweeted in support of a proposed high-speed rail line from Dallas to Houston. They swear they didn’t put Doncic up...

Businesses and everyday people want high-speed rail to succeed in Texas

April 24th, 2019
April 24, 2019 - TRA Commentary - They voted NO but it was for the right reason. It was an outpouring of public support last week when leaders of business, government agencies, advocates and everyday people said that 11 bills designed...

Want high-speed rail in Texas? Throw the Birdwell budget rider out

April 19th, 2019
April 19, 2019 - TRA Newswire - Now that the Texas House and Senate have picked their conferees to iron out differences in the state budget, a line of text that has nothing to do with how the state spends taxpayer...

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