Should the Texas Railroad Commission get a new name?
August 20th, 2016
August 19, 2016 - Austin American-Statesman
Alarmed by a faulty railroad crossing signal in your neighborhood?
Aggravated by loud, late-night honking as a freight train trundles through your community?
Don’t bother calling the Texas Railroad Commission for help.
Once upon a time — at its founding more than a century ago — the state agency was charged with overseeing rail matters. But for decades the Railroad Commission’s regulation of trains has ebbed; the agency fully transferred oversight of railroads to the Texas Department of Transportation in 2005.
Read more: http://www.statesman.com/news/news/should-the-texas-railroad-commission-get-a-new-nam/nsJXH/
TRA Note: Changing the confusing name of the Texas Railroad Commission to anything more appropriate for gas, oil and energy is long overdue. TRA has been advocating for this change since 2005.
Alarmed by a faulty railroad crossing signal in your neighborhood?
Aggravated by loud, late-night honking as a freight train trundles through your community?
Don’t bother calling the Texas Railroad Commission for help.
Once upon a time — at its founding more than a century ago — the state agency was charged with overseeing rail matters. But for decades the Railroad Commission’s regulation of trains has ebbed; the agency fully transferred oversight of railroads to the Texas Department of Transportation in 2005.
Read more: http://www.statesman.com/news/news/should-the-texas-railroad-commission-get-a-new-nam/nsJXH/
TRA Note: Changing the confusing name of the Texas Railroad Commission to anything more appropriate for gas, oil and energy is long overdue. TRA has been advocating for this change since 2005.