Tag Archives: Lone Star Rail
CAMPO kills Lone Star Rail, commits to finding alternative
The kill-shot came abruptly and mercifully for the Lone Star Rail District (also known as LSTAR) on Monday night. After months of procedural dickering, the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization’s Transportation Policy Board spent less than 10 minutes discussing the…
Transit • By Caleb Pritchard • Oct 18, 2016
CAMPO meeting spells terminal trouble ahead for Lone Star Rail
The long-suffering effort to install passenger rail service between Austin and San Antonio could effectively be put to rest on Monday evening. The Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization board of directors will likely vote to remove the Lone Star Rail…
Transit • By Caleb Pritchard • Oct 17, 2016
CAMPO vote signals the oncoming end for Lone Star Rail
The Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization gave the Lone Star Rail District (LSTAR) an all but fatal kick in the caboose on Monday night. Members of the CAMPO Transportation Policy Board overwhelmingly voted to begin the process that will remove…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Aug 9, 2016
Lonesome whistle blows for Lone Star Rail
An ailing effort to run passenger rail from the Austin area to San Antonio might only have two months left to live. On Monday night, the head of the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization’s Transportation Policy Board suggested that he…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Jun 8, 2016
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Lone Star Rail pulls into CAMPO meeting tonight
The Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization is once again putting the Lone Star Rail District, or LSTAR, under the microscope on Monday evening. CAMPO’s Transportation Policy Board is set to discuss recent moves that have been made to get the…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Jun 6, 2016
Austin Monitor Radio: Lone Star Rail
Lone Star Rail district director Joe Black joins Austin Monitor reporter Caleb Pritchard to talk about the future of the Lone Star Rail district and about whether, in fact, there is one. Sponsored by Austin Water. Post is embedded below.
Radio • By Elizabeth Pagano • Apr 18, 2016
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Hays County uncouples from Lone Star Rail
After dodging a potential death blow on Monday night, the Lone Star Rail District took another hit on the chin on Tuesday. One day after the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization opted not to freeze its funding of LSTAR, the…
Hays County • By Caleb Pritchard • Mar 23, 2016
Lone Star Rail dodges "kill-shot" at CAMPO
The Lone Star Rail District survived what could have been a potentially fatal vote at the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization’s Transportation Policy Board meeting on Monday night. A marathon discussion over LSTAR’s fate began when CAMPO Board Chair Will…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Mar 22, 2016
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Potential train wreck ahead for Lone Star Rail
It could be the end of the line for the Lone Star Rail District. On Monday, the moribund commuter rail project could see its funding from the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization frozen by that agency’s Transportation Policy Board. According…
Transit • By Caleb Pritchard • Mar 18, 2016
LSTAR troubles present another snag for Project Connect
Project Connect, the ambitious vision of a multimodal transportation future in Central Texas, hit a major pothole last week with Union Pacific’s decision to walk away from negotiations with the Lone Star Rail District. In a letter to the district,…
Transit • By Caleb Pritchard • Feb 15, 2016
Lone Star Rail hits major roadblock
A top official with the Lone Star Rail District, or LSTAR, said his agency will continue chugging along despite a serious setback that puts its fundamental mission in jeopardy. On Tuesday, Jerry Wilmoth, Union Pacific’s general manager of network infrastructure,…
Transit • By Caleb Pritchard • Feb 12, 2016
Lone Star Rail not in city budget but still on track
Although there is no funding for the Lone Star Regional Rail Project in the proposed city budget, the Georgetown-to-San-Antonio passenger rail plan can still get up to speed in due time. Lone Star Rail District Rail Director Joe Black told…
