November 11, 2019 - TRA Newswire/RailPassengers.org - Rail Passengers President Jim Mathews will appear before the House Transportation & Infrastructure Subcommittee on Rail Wednesday morning, November 13, to make the case for a dramatic increase in investment for a national rail...

October 2, 2019 - kens5.com - On Tuesday, Bexar County Commissioners (San Antonio) took their first step to increase Amtrak's Sunset Limited Routes, out of the Sunset Station downtown. Currently, Amtrak serves seven areas in Texas three times a week: El Paso,...

September 20, 2019 - RailPassengers.org - Appropriations Committee emphasizes importance of National Network to Amtrak-served communities The Senate Appropriations Committee passed an $86.6 billion Fiscal Year 2020 transportation funding bill, an increase of $167 million over this year’s levels--$58 million of which...

August 12, 2019 - Karl Ziebarth, Opinion - The Reauthorization of AMTRAK (originally authorized under P.L. 91-518, as amended) provides a unique opportunity to create a responsive, lower cost, surface transportation service for the American voter, in all parts of the...

August 1, 2019 - BigEasyMagazine.com - Improving access to public transit is one of Chef Madi Butler’s passions, and it shows. Having grown up in Kentucky, where public transit access is limited (to say the least), Butler has seen firsthand how...

July 31, 2019 - TRA Opinion - Is Amtrak management ever so slowly trying to shed itself of its national network trains that run across prairies, the piney woods of East Texas and through majestic mountains of this country by claiming...

July 21, 2019 - myleaderpaper.com - A proposed Amtrak stop could be the start of bigger things in De Soto. That’s the message from a group called Fast Track De Soto, which envisions a new rail platform in De Soto to accommodate...

July 19, 2019 - Opinion - Charles Florio - I live in Longview Texas about 25 miles east of Tyler and 120 miles east of Dallas. Longview and Tyler (Mineola) are about 100,000 population each. My wife and I travel on...

July 9, 2019 - al.com - A “positive” resolution addressing passenger rail service’s return to the Gulf Coast was approved Tuesday by the Mobile, Alabama City Council. The vote came four days before representatives with the Southern Rail Commission are scheduled to...

June 24, 2019 - TRA Newswire - In what has been described as a positive step for Texas Central Railway, the Surface Transportation Board has granted the high-speed railroad company a chance to come back with additional documentation showing that they...