June 28, 2023 - TRA Newswire -Dallas and Austin are the latest recipients of federal funding for their urban rail systems. Dallas Area Rapid Transit has been awarded a $25 million RAISE grant (Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity) from...
May 10, 2022 - TRA Newswire - Rail opponents tried and failed for the third time since 1985 to take Austin's sub-urban city of Leadner out of the regional rail service business.This past weekend Leander voters chose to stay as...
June 30, 2019 - TRA Newswire -
June has been a busy month at Dallas Area Rapid Transit. The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced last week that DART will receive $60.76 million for platform capacity expansion on the Red and Blue...
February 27, 2019 - ProgressiveRailroading.com -
The Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (Cap Metro) board recently approved a $36.8 million contract with Jay-Reese Contractors Inc. to build a new downtown MetroRail station in Austin, Texas.
Construction on the station — which will be...
November 29, 2018 - ProgressiveRailroading.com -
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) yesterday announced $281 million in additional fiscal-year 2018 funding through the Capital Investment Grants (CIG) program for four transit-rail projects and one bus rapid transit project.
The rail projects include the Tempe Streetcar; the Los Angeles Westside...
