March 10, 2025 - RailwayAge.com, David Peter Alan -The big buzz and bigger controversy around Texas during the past several years has been a proposal by a company called Texas Central to build and operate a high-speed rail line between...

February 26, 2025 - TRA Newswire - (Updated with Amtrak comment 2/27) -There is movement in the process to bring high-speed rail service to the Lone Star state so Texans can travel between Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston. Amtrak just announced...

February 24, 2025 - TRA Austin -The flip-side to some important rail legislation proposed each session in Austin, like improving at-grade rail crossings and expanding passenger rail service in Texas, is the gaggle of anti-high speed rail bills that always...

February 16, 2025 - KBTX.com - Local leaders from across the Brazos Valley traveled to Washington, D.C., last week as part of the Brazos Valley Council of Governments (BVCOG) to discuss regional priorities, including infrastructure, broadband access, and opposition to the...

January 1, 2025 - TRA Commentary - It's not for a lack of trying. It's been fits and starts for over several decades when it comes to high-speed rail in Texas. And frankly, it hasn't been much better for the expansion of...

December 10, 2024 - TexasTribune.com, Joshua Fechter -A years long effort to bring high-speed rail to Texas has recently shown signs of life, but state lawmakers have consistently put up roadblocks to keep it from happening.The illusive dream of high-speed...

November 24, 2024 - TRA Newswire -It's deja vu at the state capitol as anti high-speed rail bills are filed in advance of the start of the 2025 legislative session in mid-January.Two bills for the 2025 session have been filed...

November 25, 2024 - TRA Newswire -Right on the heels of Texas Representative John Bucy III's pre-filed bill that would bring high-speed rail to the I-35 travel corridor, State Senator Sarah Eckhardt (D) Austin,  filed Senate Bill 424 as a...

November 12, 2024 - nbcdfw.com - 'Dallas Councilmembers Willis and Bazaldua talked about economic development and high-speed rail potential while aboard a Japanese bullet train.A delegation of Dallas city leaders returned to North Texas late Tuesday from a week-long, taxpayer-financed...

October 13, 2024 - FortWorthReport.org, David Montgomery -Nearly 400 miles north of Fort Worth, Rod Kreie, the mayor of Newton, Kansas, happily envisions a day when he and his friends can hop aboard a southbound Amtrak to go watch his...