August 25, 2015 - Fort Worth Star Telegram Editorial
Planning for high-speed rail service linking Fort Worth to Houston continues to move forward, slowly but decidedly.
The Regional Transportation Council last week allocated $4.5 million from its regional tollway revenue accounts to...
September 10, 2015 - Fox4 Dallas
A second DART rail line has been approved for Downtown Dallas by the city council.
The route would run along Jackson and Young Streets if it gets final council approval. It avoids a cluster of townhomes...
Sepember 10, 2015 - San Antonio Express News
San Antonio became the third city to set aside funding for the Lone Star Rail District line when it voted Thursday to include $500,000 for the project in its annual budget.
The money will...
September 8, 2015 - Texas Tribune
by Aman Batheja
The private firm hoping to build a high-speed rail line between Dallas and Houston has been celebrating a summer of successes: completing a successful round of fundraising, seeing a key federal study move forward, surviving the...
September 3, 2015 - Fort Worth Star Telegram
BY GORDON DICKSON
gdickson@star-telegram.com
FORT WORTH
A proposed commuter rail line from downtown Fort Worth to Dallas/Fort Worth Airport will be among the first rails in Texas to feature state-of-the-art technology for preventing crashes, an official...
September 3, 2015 - Progressive Railroading
The Denton County Transportation Authority (DCTA) received the platinum award for financial transparency as part of the Texas Comptroller Leadership Circle program.
Launched by the state's Comptroller of Public Accounts in December 2009, the Leadership Circle award program...
September 2, 2015 - SAcurrent.com
Bexar County's $1.7 billion budget that was approved Tuesday includes $500,000 for the Lone Star Rail District.
While the funding received a green light, no agreements are in place yet, according to a county spokesperson.
Lone Star Rail...
September 1, 2015 - San Antonio Business Journal
Logistics company Twin Eagle continues to grow despite six-year low crude oil prices and the company is building a new rail park to deliver frac sand to its customers just a few hours northwest of...
August 26, 2015 - Alpine Avalanche
Proponents of passenger service on the old South Orient through Alpine hope that a renewed interest in using the rail line for freight will lead to a future travel boom, especially for tourism in Mexico.
It...
BROWNSVILLE, Texas, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Government officials from the United States and Mexico held an event Tuesday to celebrate the opening of the West Rail Bypass International Bridge, the first rail link between the countries in more than a century.
The...
