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Want rail service along the I-20 Corridor? TxDOT wants to know your thoughts

November 4th, 2021
November 4, 2021 - TRA Newswire - The Texas Department of Transportation wants your input. The agency is conducting a study of Interstate 20 from the I-10 junction in Reeves County, in far West Texas, all the way to the Louisiana...

CEO deja vu at Trinity Metro: Baulsir to Ballard

October 27th, 2021
October 27, 2021 - TRA Newswire / Fort Worth Business Press - Two long-time transportation executives who worked together at other transit agencies will change chairs at Fort Worth Trinity Metro, again. Trinity Metro President and CEO Bob Baulsir, who led the...

Big step forward for restarting international trains across the Rio Grande at Presidio TX

October 19th, 2021
Updated October 21, 2021- TRA Newswire - The last stumbling block holding up moving freight rail traffic across the Rio Grande between Texas and Mexico in deep Southwest Texas was removed by the state legislature Tuesday. With a $15.5 million dollar appropriation...

Union Pacific on growing list of companies opposed to forced vaccine mandate

October 18th, 2021
October 18, 2021 - TRA Newswire - Citing a potential disruption to the flow of goods in Texas and throughout the national rail network, Union Pacific Railroad has filed suit in U.S. District Court to oppose forced vaccine mandates being imposed...

Texas Supreme Court will review Texas Central lawsuit

October 17th, 2021
October 16, 2021 - TRA Newswire - In an unusual move, the Texas Supreme Court announced that it will grant a review of a decision it made earlier this year which showed that high-speed rail builder Texas Central Railway is really...

Texas Central's Aguilar named to ERCOT Board

October 17th, 2021
October 16, 2021 - TRA Newswire - Texas power grid operator ERCOT has two new governing board members. One is an oil and gas executive and the other new board member is leading the effort to build the first high-speed rail...

Texas high-speed rail investors form station development company

October 15th, 2021
October 15, 2021 - TRA Newswire - Texas high-speed rail investors have announced their intention to form an entity that will develop train stations in Dallas, Houston and Grimes County near College Station, where the permitted Texas Central Railway high-speed rail line terminals will be located....

DART: recognized as a Best-in-State employer, CEO Nadine Lee interviewed

October 11th, 2021
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...

Congressman Ellzey: what transportation mode should make a "profit?"

October 10th, 2021
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...

Why we support Proposition 2 in November - good for local infrastructure and transportation

October 8th, 2021
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,...

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