{"id":1006393,"date":"2026-08-17T11:48:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1006393\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T11:48:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:48:26","slug":"texas-earns-federal-money-to-eliminate-train-crossings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1006393\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas earns federal money to eliminate train crossings"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) announced<\/a> Friday it will be the recipient of a $755 million grant through a federal program that will fund 12 rail-grade separation projects throughout the state. In other words, federal funds awarded to Texas will soon alter railways<\/a>\u00a0across the Lone Star State.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The projects will move a collection of on-the-ground rail crossings that are deemed dangerous, rerouting the tracks vertically onto a bridge or horizontally to a new, on-the-ground location.<\/p>\n

“I have led the charge to increase funding for rail grade separation projects to keep Texans safe,” Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick<\/a> said in a statement Friday. “By leveraging state funding to secure significant federal funding for rail grade separation projects, we will be able to improve rail and road safety for all Texans.”<\/p>\n

The dozen of soon-to-be-updated rail crossings are located across Texas, from El Paso County in the west to Harris County<\/a> and Fort Bend County in Houston and the surrounding area. The single largest project will come in North Texas, in which $189 million will be used to fund the alteration or elimination of nine at-grade railroad crossings in Dallas, Fort Worth and Terrell.\u00a0<\/p>\n

TxDOT will also use $77.6 million in funding from the state’s Off-System Rail Grade Separation State Fund Program. The state says it will use a total of more than $953 million this year in projects that impact Texas railways, with the money coming from local, state and federal investment. No other state has received a greater share of federal funding for its railway system, per TxDOT.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) announced Friday it will be the recipient of a $755 million grant…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1006394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[324721,324300,324898,4345,358,3187],"class_list":["post-1006393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-chronnews","tag-chronstaff","tag-chrontexas","tag-houston","tag-texas","tag-tx"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117110696027102686","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1006394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}