CAMPO begins process to halt planning of Lone Star Rail passenger line between Georgetown, San Antonio

A Central Texas regional transportation agency took the first step toward ending the proposed Lone Star Rail District passenger rail line that would have connected San Antonio, Austin and Georgetown. On Aug. 8 the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization transportation policy board, which comprises local elected officials, approved initiating steps to conclude the environmental impact statement,  or EIS, cease funding and remove the $2.09 billion plan from CAMPO’s 2040 long-range transportation plan. The final decision to end LSRD will be taken during CAMPO’s Oct. 10 meeting. This move comes after Union Pacific Corp. told LSRD in February it terminated an […]

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