The Biden administration is using billions of dollars from a landmark infrastructure law to make it faster to travel regionally by rail than by highway.
The Transportation Department is prioritizing routes under 750 miles in allocating the $66 billion the 2021 bipartisan law allocated for passenger rail.
Transportation experts say that’s an important distance to focus on. State politics has led to a dearth of shorter-distance train routes in the U.S., and they’re best suited to compete with car travel — especially if they’re faster.
North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG) and its partners recently landed a grant of up to $1 million in infrastructure bill funds to expand plans for a long-sought high-speed rail corridor between Dallas and Houston to also include Fort Worth.
