Summary: Every little bit helps, and in this case, the U.S. Department of Transportation awarded Texas $15 million this week to begin preliminary engineering and environmental studies for developing a proposed high-speed rail line between Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston. The concept rail line would connect two of the nation's biggest metropolitan areas with trains reaching speeds in excess of 150 mph. The process itself, however, won't be quite as fast. For more on the latest chapter of high speed rail in Texas, I spoke with Bill Glavin, director of TxDOT's Rail Division. For more information about transportation by rail in Texas, log on to the TxDOT web site and click on the locomotive icon in the lower left hand corner of the home page.
