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Trump announces push to speed up 'desperately-needed infrastructure'

President Donald Trump on Friday pledged new efforts to speed approvals for highways and other projects as part of his proposal for a $1 trillion boost to fix aging U.S. infrastructure. At the U.S. Transportation Department, Trump said his goal was to solve "one of the biggest obstacles to creating this new and desperately-needed infrastructure – and that is the painfully slow, costly and time-consuming process for getting permits and approvals to build." Trump said the White

Will Tulsa miss out on high-speed rail?

As Oklahoma City tries to expand the city’s Amtrak routes, some rail advocates are afraid Tulsa will be left out of a possible national high-speed rail network. Oklahoma City’s route to Fort Worth was saved in recent federal budget talks and now the city has applied to obtain additional service to Kansas City. There are concerns that future rail development will bypass Eastern Oklahoma. A route between this area and the state capital has been talked about for years. Tulsa bus

Stan the Robot will park your car at Paris-Charles De Gaulle airport

Parisian firm Stanley Robotics has created a robot called Stan that can drop and pick up your car for you at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport. The robot picks up your car close to the terminals, so travelers do not have to lug their bags to check in, and takes it to a secure car park. The system is connected to your flight details, so your car will be in the garage and ready to leave when you get back from your trip. As well as making things easier for holiday makers, Stan can

Grimes County, Texas Central dispute impact of court judgment

But the company behind the train says not so fast. On Tuesday County Judge Ben Leman said a court granted an injunction that would in his words, stops the train in it's tracks. "With this ruling as well as the regulations in every single county from Ellis to Waller and only a few weeks left of our current legislative session, it does not seem as if this high speed rail project is going to make progress anytime soon," said Leman. Grimes County took Texas Central Railway to cou

Critical bills being heard on the Senate floor 4/10/17!

StartFragmentSB 385 (S) Author: Burton, Konni Relating to voter approval of local acceptance and use of federal funds for passenger rail projects.EndFragment StartFragmentSB 461 (S) Author: Lucio, Eddie Relating to the notice required before the issuance of certain debt obligations by political subdivisions.EndFragment StartFragmentSB 626 (S) Author: Schwertner, Charles Relating to the acquisition of certain real property in conjunction with the acquisition of real propert

Texas high speed rail would be a colossal waste of taxpayer money

Despite numerous studies concluding that a building a high-speed rail between Dallas and Houston would be an unsustainable, taxpayer funded train wreck, Texas Central is determined to build it anyway. For several years, Texas Central has insisted that it won’t need taxpayer money to bailout the project because ridership volume will be huge! But neither the public nor the experts are buying the company’s claim. These studies referenced by the Reason Foundation including one fu

Texas Central fights legislators' efforts to kill high-speed rail project

Texas Central Partners LLC is fighting state lawmakers' plans to kill its privately funded project to build a Dallas-to-Houston bullet-train passenger service. Earlier this week, almost 9,000 citizen letters in support of the project were delivered to members of the state's House and Senate, Texas Central officials said in a March 7 statement. Residents in every state senate district have written letters of support for the project, company officials added. Late last mon

Lawmakers Take Action to Derail Bullet Train

AUSTIN, TX - A group of key state lawmakers recently filed a slate of legislation to push back against Texas Central Railway’s controversial proposal to construct a high-speed rail line between Dallas and Houston. Senators Birdwell (R-Granbury), Creighton (R-Conroe), Kolkhorst (R-Brenham), Perry (R-Lubbock), and Schwertner (R-Georgetown) joined with Representatives Ashby (R-Lufkin), Bell (R-Magnolia), Cook (R-Corsicana), Schubert (R-Caldwell), and Wray (R-Waxahachie) to file

High-speed rail developer drops lawsuits against landowners

Texas Central Partners officials said they are instead going to try and have an “open dialogue” with landowners about letting the company onto their land. “We’re stepping back and going back to conversations and taking some of the heat out of our process,” said Texas Central President Tim Keith. Texas Central Partners is developing a 240-mile bullet train line intended to transport passengers between Houston and Dallas in 90 minutes with a stop near Bryan. The company has par

China to extend Mexican industrial park feasibility study -sources

State-owned China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) will extend by three months a feasibility study for a major industrial park in the western Mexican state of Jalisco, two Mexican officials familiar with the matter said.. Jalisco's government and CCCC agreed in October to carry out a six-month study of the project, which could become one of the biggest Chinese investments in Mexico and give China an important foothold to supply the North American market. "There will

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