February 24, 2025 - TRA Austin -Senate Transportation Committee Chair Robert Nichols (R-Jacksonville) and Senator Carol Alvarado (D-Houston) have jointly filed Texas Senate bill 1555 that would create a grant program to make at-grade rail crossings safer, a hot button...

January 10, 2025 - TRA Newswire -The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today announced that it has awarded more than $1.1 billion in Railroad Crossing Elimination Grant Program funding to 123 rail projects, improving or studying more...

January 5, 2025 - TRA Newswire -When Texas lawmakers convene in Austin for the 89th Legislative Session Tuesday, January 14 they will be receiving several oversize postcards from Texas Rail Advocates. One will deal with bills and resolution for linking...

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 23, 2024 - FortWorthReport.org, Eric E. Garcia - North Texas leaders seek funds to improve transportation infrastructure as the 89th Texas Legislature prepares to meet Jan. 14.The Regional Transportation Council, an independent policy group made up of elected and appointed...

December 26, 2024 - TRA Newswire -For the second session in a row Representative Ana Hernandez (District-143) has filed a bill in the Texas House to limit the length of trains that run through her district. The lawmaker cites that...

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...

October 24, 2024 - TRA Newswire -In partnership with the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), the City of Fort Worth and the City of Haslet, the North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG) and Hillwood, a Perot Company, $80 million...

October 10, 2024 - TRA Newswire -Speaking at the Texas House Committee on Transportation's Interim Hearing in Austin, Texas Rail Advocates President Peter LeCody stressed the need for support of "exceptional rail items" in the TxDOT budget when lawmakers return...

August 22, 2024 - TRA Newswire -The Texas Transportation Commission put its blessing on the Texas Department of Transportation's Fiscal Year 2026-2027 budget request Thursday, now sending the lengthy document over to Governor Greg Abbott's desk for review before it...