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Texas is once more flirting with expanding passenger rail

July 23rd, 2024
July 23, 2024 - TexasTribune.com - The state’s booming population, congestion problems and billions of federal dollars on the table have officials eyeing ways to boost passenger rail.A robust passenger rail system has long been seen as a pipe dream in...

Laredo mayor says passenger train to MX/TX border cities will boost tourism, security. Is TXDOT & FRA listening?

July 17th, 2024
July 16, 2024 - TRA Newswire / latintimes.com -If Mexico builds it, will Texas be ready? That's a question yet to be answered if the new President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, follows through on her predecessors' plans to boost the...

Mexican president says his successor will build passenger train lines to U.S. border

July 10th, 2024
July 10,  2024 - SpectrumLocalNews.com -MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s massive, debt-fueled passenger rail building program is not going to end with the administration of outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, but will instead double, he said Wednesday.López Obrador said his...

Tarrant County Judge Andy Brown names passenger rail among top 2 priorities

January 30th, 2024
January 29, 2024 - KXAN.com - Travis County Judge Andy Brown joined KXAN Monday to talk about priorities for the year ahead of Travis County Commissioners Court on Tuesday.The conversation was centered around working to bring passenger rail to Central Texas,...

Mexico's President inaugurates passenger & freight rail service from Pacific Ocean to Gulf of Mexico

December 25th, 2023
December 25, 2023 - TRA Newswire -Friday marked the start of service between Salina Cruz, Oaxaca on the west coast of Mexico and Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz on the gulf side for both passenger and freight rail service when Presidenr Lopez Obrador...

Mexico orders railroads to prioritize passenger train services over freight operations - two lines to reach Texas border cities

November 26th, 2023
UPDATED November 26, 2023 - TRA Newswire - Mexico’s government issued a federal mandate this week forcing private railway companies operating in the country to offer passenger service over their normal daily freight runs.Two of the passenger lines proposed would run...

Why the Amtrak Sleeper Car Is the ultimate way to travel across Texas

October 24th, 2023
November 2023 - TexasMonthly.com / By Sasha von Oldershausen -The road to far West Texas is rambling, which is to say there’s no easy way to get there, no matter where you’re coming from. I learned this quickly during my three years...

Hopes dim for passenger rail linking Parker and Palo Pinto counties to Fort Worth

April 11th, 2023
April 11, 2023 - WeatherfordDemocrat.com - Parker County residents have commuted west to Metroplex jobs for decades, with Palo Pinto County denizens more recently joining that commute as Metroplex migrants move west.Maybe it would be nice for them to take the...

New group wants to convince San Antonio to support rail transit

December 9th, 2022
December 9, 2022 - SanAntonioReport.org -Around a snack-filled table inside of a vintage train car at San Antonio’s Texas Transportation Museum, 12 members of San Antonians for Rail Transit ranging in age from five to 70 met in early December for the...

U.S. Senator Cassidy: Passenger rail service could be coming to NW Louisiana, Texas

August 31st, 2022
On Tuesday, Aug. 30, Senator Bill Cassidy met with city officials and community leaders to discuss the possibility of this passenger rail service to run between Atlanta and the Dallas/Fort Worth region through north Louisiana. Cassidy says the likelihood of...

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