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 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...

July 30, 2021 - By Wes Lujan, AVP-External Relations, Union Pacific Railroad - Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic wiping out much of America’s passenger rail ridership, Union Pacific carried approximately 130,000 passengers across its network daily. In fact, UP has 106...

July 28,2021 - Opinion - As Congress hammers out an infrastructure deal, it should omit divisive policies that would undermine freight railroads, a transportation mode critical to freight flows and emissions mitigation in the Galveston Bay area. Freight railroads, like the 54...

July 19, 2021 - TRA Opinion  - In a recent news release the Texas Transportation Commission touted that it approved the most funding, ever, for transit projects in the state. The amount? $89 million. And we applaud that. But let's take the...

July 10, 2021 - Editors note: Restoring service to all modes of transportation in post-Covid has been a challenge for transportation agencies and Amtrak is no exception. Fewer cars on trains staffed with fewer onboard service personnel and older Superliner...

June 8, 2021 - Commentary by Russ Jackson, 40 years as a rail advocate - After 50 years of existence you'd think Amtrak would have thought of everything.  Well, below are some ideas this writer has mulled over for a long...

April 9, 2021 - RailwayAge.com - David Peter Alan - “America’s Railroad” recently released a map showing the services it would like to offer by 2035; 14 years from now. As planning frontiers go, that is not a very long time....

March 1, 2021 - Greg Garrett, Senior Columnist, Baptistnews.com - Last fall, my hometown of Austin, Texas, put a monumental public transportation bond question on the ballot: light rail, tunnels underneath downtown, electric buses. Austin’s Capitol Metro called the plan “bold.”...