July 26, 2016 - Texas Tribune
The state Legislature could put up major road blocks next year for a private firm's plans to build a high-speed rail project connecting Houston and Dallas now that a federal transportation board has decided the...
Updated July 19, 2016 - TRA Newswire
Updated with response from Texas Central
The Surface Transportation Board struck a blow to Texas Central Railway today in stating that the board does not have jurisdiction over the railway since it would operate entirely within...
June 22, 2016 - TRA Newswire
Texas Central, the private concern building a high speed rail line between Dallas and Houston, received an Order of Protection from the Surface Transportation Board to shield proprietary documents from rural lawmakers and landowners that want to...
May 12, 2016 – TRA Newswire
In a filing with the Surface Transportation Board, North Texas Congressman Joe Barton (R) Arlington has come out against a high speed rail project between Dallas and Houston.
Barton, whose district encompasses parts of Tarrant County...
The group known as Texans Against High Speed Rail has initiated a campaign to flood the Surface Transportation Board in Washington with petitions that, even well couched in the guise of eminent domain, just want to flat out kill the Texas high...
May 5, 2016 -
* Train developers petition for confirmation of Surface Transportation Board jurisdiction
* Project meets standard as infrastructure project of national importance
* Move will bring Texas passenger link in line with nation’s rail systems
(Dallas) - Developers of Texas’ high-speed...
February 8, 2016
The Surface Transportation Board is known mostly around the rail industry as an agency that Congress charged with resolving railroad rate and service disputes and reviewing proposed railroad mergers. The usual day-in and day-out freight rail issues.
That's why we...
