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Texas Senate hearing on transportation: fix the railroad crossing safety funding shortfall

October 6th, 2024
October 6, 2024 - TRA Newswire -At the September Texas Senate Transportation Committee's interim hearing, Committee Chairman Robert Nichols, (R) - Jacksonville, raised concern that Texas isn't putting enough money into solving the issue of separating trains from traffic at...

TxDOT Rail Division announces initiatives to move goods and people, help economic development

April 13th, 2023
April 13, 2023 - TRA Newswire -The Rail Division at the Texas Department of Transportation has some initiatives underway to improve the flow of goods and people through rail improvements and to show how rail benefits economic development."We've really done...

Texas AG Paxton wants SCOTUS to let states determine blocked rail crossing rules, TRA has a better solution

January 12th, 2023
January 12, 2023 - TRA Austin -Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has joined an Indiana-led cert-stage amicus brief that calls for the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a case that would allow states to set standards and penaltiesvwhen trains...

Union Pacific improves safety at rail crossings: accidents down in 2015

February 8th, 2016
February 5, 2016 - TRA Newswire Accidents at Union Pacific railroad crossings were down 3 percent in 2015, in part due to an aggressive campaign to identify problem crossings and a strong social media push. In 2015 there were 2.28 accidents...

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