August 5, 2025 - TRA Newswire -The needs continue to be great in funding freight projects for rail and maritime modes in Texas and in the recent legislative session the outcome turned out to be a mixed bag. In a...

July 19, 2025 - Tahlequah Oklahoma Daily Press - Reprinted with authorization -State-level politicians grow increasingly incompetent, stingy and cruel in many parts of the country, and the Texas Legislature – whose members meet only every other year and undoubtedly...

February 17, 2025 - TRA Newswire -A growing North Texas is dependent on a share of federal funds to complete needed transportation projects and leaders are wondering when those dollars will be released.Rail projects, as well as road improvements, are...

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...

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...

June 16, 2024 - Donnie Tuggle, KBTX.com - Rail advocates in Texas are ramping up efforts to secure funding for both high-speed and conventional rail projects as the next legislative session approaches in January. This week, the Rail Passenger Association and...

April 29, 2024 - TRA Newswire -The Chairman of the Texas House Transportation Committee, Representative Terry Canales, said we can not pave enough highways and add enough lanes through our current financing structures to meet the demands of a Texas...

February 4, 2024 - TRA Commentary and Analysis - Here's the billion dollar question. Can TxDOT, the Texas Transportation Commission and our state lawmakers get on the same page to receive a chunk of $66 billion in guaranteed federal rail grants,...

November 1, 2023 - TRA Newswire -20 million Americans that travel by train could see extreme cuts to Amtrak intercity rail service if the U.S. House follows through this week on a partisan plan to cut funding for passenger trains...

July 11, 2023 - sacurrent.com - The governor of the Mexico's state of Nuevo Leon is asking the Texas Department of Transportation to consider building high-speed rail connection between San Antonio and Monterrey, according to a letter posted online.In the letter July...