CEO of Kleinheinz Capital Partners, the main backer of the high-speed rail project in Texas, writes about the status of this ...

The vast land carved out for America’s highways may hold the key to unlocking long-delayed high-speed rail ambitions.

“If we have the will here in Texas to do it, we could finish (a high-speed rail line) before the I-35 expansion from Austin to San Antonio is finished.” It’s not yet clear, however, whether ...

Texas legislation to support high-speed rail has apparently stopped in its tracks. House Transportation Chairman Tom Craddick, a Midland Republican, said high-speed rail is a tough sell in the ...

After the Trump administration pulled funding from the Houston-to-Dallas high-speed-rail project, a Fort Worth-based hedge fund is taking it over. Dallas and Houston are just 250 miles apart, but ...

Duffy also announced that an agreement to provide $63.9 million in federal funding for the Texas project had been scrapped, calling high-speed rail "a waste of taxpayer funds." What People Are Saying ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A bill to loosen restrictions on high-speed rail funding was heard at the Texas State Capitol on Monday. State Rep. John Bucy III (D-Austin) is the author of House Bill 483 ...

Efforts to build high-speed rail could slow down under Trump. The Trump administration is moving to pull back some promised federal funding from high-speed rail projects in California and Texas.

High-speed rail is generally understood in the U.S. as reaching speeds of 200 miles per hour, ... LaHood doesn’t think the Texas and California rail projects are doomed yet.

Even though it’s a red state, Texas has recently been pursuing high speed rail—and it could certainly use it. For example, Houston ranks among the 10 most congested cities in the country and ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom's office has hit out at the high-speed rail project in Texas, criticizing it for not making as much progress as the one in his state.. Since voters approved the ...