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Why the Texas Central high-speed rail project is heroic

August 8th, 2020
July 31, 2020 - roadsbridges.com - Commentary from Norman F. Anderson - The defining moment when infrastructure can restart our economic growth is now. We are in an unprecedented time in the history of our country. In a challenging environment like today,...

What a national rail advocacy group is doing to fight for daily train service

July 3rd, 2020
July 3, 2020 - RailPassengers.org - Jim Mathews, President/CEO - There’s a lot happening right now, and it can be hard to keep up to date. Rail Passengers Association has set up a webpage as a resource to let you know...

How Amtrak will ruin train service in Texas

June 24th, 2020
June 24, 2020 - Commentary by Russ Jackson - You already know what the situation is these days with Amtrak and its plans for October.  What we need right now is some philosophy that will keep our chins up and continue...

Taking Texas Central to the Tx Supreme Court. Really??

May 21st, 2020
May  19, 2020 - Jim Mathews, CEO - Rail Passengers Association - An aggrieved Texas landowner at the center of opposition to the Texas Central high-speed rail project says he’s taking his claim that Texas Central doesn’t count as an actual...

Riding trains in these day of COVID-19

May 2nd, 2020
May 1, 2020 - I’m aboard Amtrak’s Texas Eagle, train #21, en-route to Fort Worth, Texas today and it’s eerily quiet onboard. Life on Amtrak’s national rail system in these days of COVID-19 reminds me of a tune rolling around in my...

Special Report: Is now the time for Texas to build expensive highways, toll roads and passenger rail?

April 21st, 2020
April 21, 2020 - Star-Telegram.com - Gordon Dickson - Now may not seem the time to talk about spending big tax dollars on transportation projects, since the economy is in a funk and many Texans are stuck at home due to...

5 ways freight railroads serve you during a pandemic

April 1st, 2020
March 25, 2020 - Betsy Cantwell - GoRail.org - As the novel coronavirus impacts communities all across the nation, the importance of the global supply chain has come into even clearer focus. An integrated network of planes, trains, ships and trucks...

To build its emerging “megaregions”, the USA should turn to trains

March 29th, 2020
March 27, 2020 - citymetric.com - An extract from “Designing the Megaregion: Meeting Urban Challenges at a New Scale”, out now from Island Press. A regional transportation system does not become balanced until all its parts are operating effectively. Highways, arterial streets,...

Opinion: San Antonio can ‘future-proof’ mobility with light rail

January 11th, 2020
January 10, 2020 - Lyndon Henry for Express-News - Setbacks in attempts to launch urban rail projects over the past two decades have apparently led top San Antonio officials and planners to scratch rail off the city’s agenda. The officially backed...

Commentary: Governor Abbott says Texas is finished building highways

January 11th, 2020
January 10, 2020 - DMagazine.com - In a San Antonio speech, Gov. Greg Abbott says Texas may be experiencing its "last major build-out of roads.” Has the state changed its tune on transportation? For generations, the state of Texas’ transportation policy has...

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