December 16, 2022 - TRA Austin -The Texas House Transportation Committee Interim Report recommends utilizing a long-dormant but still on-the-books fund to boost improvements to the state's rail system.The Texas Rail Relocation and Improvement Fund (appropriated fund 0306) was approved...
January 8, 2022 - TRA Newswire -
Want to move more freight trains efficiently in Texas in 2030, 2040 and beyond?
An analysis of two major Texas Department of Transportation freight rail studies in 2021, one for the Houston-Beaumont Region and the...
December 11, 2021 - TRA Newswire -
Class 1 and short line railroads in Texas could be the beneficiaries of the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) signed into law in November. The key word is could be.
While the...
Updated November 8, 2021 - TRA Newswire -
Now that the House and Senate have passed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure and jobs bill that will be spread out over eight years. The paperwork now goes to President Joe Biden for his...
February 25, 2021 - TRA Newswire -
WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg today announced that USDOT’s Build America Bureau (the Bureau) has provided a $908 million loan under the Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing (RRIF) program to the Dallas...
TRA Newswire - Texas has passed up its share of some $19 billion in federal rail funds over the past 10 years because the state does not have a matching partnership component. Those funds have gone to dozens of other...
August 1, 2016 - bondbuyer.com /TRA Newswire
DALLAS -- Sponsors of passenger and high-speed rail projects are leaving billions of funding dollars on the table by not taking advantage of a federal rail program that has made only $2.7 billion of...