The Texas Department of Transportation last week voted in favor of providing a $50 million grant to the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority to help purchase additional MetroRail cars and construct a permanent, expanded downtown rail station.
Story is here.
I'm assuming that the new downtown station would also accommodate the future Lone Star Rail (L-STAR). I doubt it would be as far from downtown as the Amtrak station served by the Texas Eagle. I am glad to see service on the existing MetroRail Red Line being improved with shorter headways and later trains.