December 17, 2015 - TRA Newswire (Austin) - James Bass, Chief Financial Officer of the Texas Department of Transportation is the newly named Executive Director. The announcement came out of a meeting of the Texas Transportation Commission and will be effective...

December 12, 2015 -TRA Newswire (Arlington) -  The private developer that is building a high speed rail line between Dallas and Houston started surveying on public property this week in anticipation of construction starting in late 2017. "Texas Central Partners is...

December 12, 2015 - TRA Newswire (Arlington) - A TxDOT service development plan to bring passenger rail service to the I-35 corridor between Oklahoma and South Texas expects to come out in rough form in the spring of 2016. Speaking before...

December 11, 2015 - National Association of Railroad Passengers Like the man once famously said, "There you go again." Newspapers and media outlets up and down the Northeast Corridor are once again buying into the mythology that Amtrak's NEC operation is profitable,...

December 8, 2015 - Houston Public Media - Gail Delaughter Transportation officials say a link to downtown Houston is crucial to the project. The planned route for Texas Central Railway’s high-speed train between Houston and Dallas would only bring the train as...

December 8, 2015 - Houston Chronicle When he signed a five-year transportation funding bill on Friday, President Barack Obama sent America one singular message: Keep on truckin'. Apologies to R. Crumb, but we're having a bit of a nostalgia fit. It has...

December 9, 2015 - Here's an elected official from Oklahoma that understands transportation needs and can teach Texas legislators and leaders a thing or two. There is sometimes the sense that we all will be able to stay in our own...

December 7, 2015 - KPRC Houston HOUSTON - Its official name is the ‘Tokaido Shinkansen,’ but Texans may know it as the famous Japanese bullet train. Texas Central Partners is a private group that wants to bring the high-speed rail to Texas. The...

December 7, 2015 - (Dallas) Amtrak's Texas Eagle service has a lot to celebrate and you get the prize. Starting in January when you purchase one regular (adult) rail fare on the daily Texas Eagle you get to take a...

Updated December 4, 2015 - TRA Newswire / NARP / APTA First Fully-Funded, Long-Term Surface Transportation Bill in Ten Years (Washington) - President Obama signed into law a five year transportation infrastructure bill today. The measure will invest $61 billion in our...