October 6, 2021 - TRA Newswire - For the second year in a row, Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) has been recognized as a Best-in-State Employer by Forbes. The Best-in-State Employer award winners, given out by Forbes and Statista Inc., were chosen...

October 10, 2021 - TRA Opinion - Texas District 6 Congressman Jake Ellzey, appearing on the KXAS-TV Sunday morning Lone Star Politics show took a cheap shot at public transportation, which is part of the massive infrastructure bill now before the...

October 9, 2021 - TRA Opinion - In the 2021 session Texas Legislators listened and overwhelmingly supported new legislation (HJR 99) giving Texans an opportunity to empower their counties to make local infrastructure and transportation funding a priority. On this November’s ballot,...

October 9, 2021 - TRA Newswire - The North Central Texas Council of Governments will hold a series of in-person open houses throughout the region this month to highlight the Dallas-Fort Worth High-Speed Transportation Connections Study’s purpose as well as the...

October 5, 2021 - TRA Newswire - As Texas and the nations' consumers face empty store shelves, six-month delays for items that used to be in stock, and limited availability of their favorite items; they are asking a simple question: What...

October 5, 2021 - Kateleigh Mills, KOSU.org - As a bipartisan bill that would dedicate $1.2 trillion dollars to improving the nation’s infrastructure waits for the congressional lawmakers to take action, Oklahoma public radio reporters have been asking people what they would improve...

October 2, 2021 - corridorrail.com / Andrew Selden - It has been clear almost from the very beginning of the COVID epidemic that not all trains were being impacted equally. After the initial shock of March and April 2020, when all...

October 3, 2021 - TRA Newswire - Peter Espy, who serves as the third-ever Rail Division Director at the Texas Department of Transportation, will be stepping down from his position on October 15th. Espy has reached retirement age and hopes to "travel,...

September 30, 2021 - TRA Newswire - While Amtrak has been slowly restoring its Western national network trains by adding cars and bringing back full-service meals on long-haul runs, it appears that the daily Texas Eagle continues to be lumped with...

September 29, 2021 - TRA Newswire - Galveston's popular electric trolleys will be back on track October 1st, 13 years after Hurricane Ike damaged all four of the vintage cars. Galveston Mayor Craig Brown said “we’ve been looking forward to the return...