Here's the complete story.SAN MARCOS — A vision of passengers buying tickets to ride a San Antonio-to-Austin/Round Rock passenger train in 2009 was conjured up here Friday.
But if anyone knows there are miles and miles to go before that elusive image materializes, they are the members of the Austin-San Antonio Intermunicipal Commuter Rail District.
LSTAR/Progress toward regional commuter rail
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Posted 11 September 2003 - 03:48 PM
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
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Posted 10 November 2009 - 01:39 AM
Story is here.A commuter rail line stretching from Austin to San Antonio has taken another step forward.
The Lone Star Rail District -- formerly, the Austin-San Antonio Commuter Rail District -- has been a long time in the making. Twelve years ago state lawmakers authorized the train service.
Very sad that the only train footage they had to show on the news story (seen in video clip) was a UP freight train. No they are not going to have "mixed" trains -- freights carrying passengers. They could have shot video of commuter rail in another city. Had Cap Metro and Veolia gotten the local Metrorail up and running by now they would have had commuter rail footage to show from right there in Austin.
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
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Posted 28 April 2010 - 12:37 PM
Read here.
Studies continue for Austin-SA commuter rail
The vision presented Monday night consisted of 12 trains carrying passengers back and forth from Austin and San Antonio each day. Along the way, the trains would stop in New Braunfels picking up commuters and dropping off tourists to shop and enjoy the scenery in New Braunfels.
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
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Posted 10 February 2011 - 08:51 AM
Although the headline refers to light rail, I believe this article is actually about LSTAR commuter rail. In this case I tend to give the media the benefit of the doubt on terminology. I suspect the reporter received information for the story from ill-informed sources.
Sloan
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Posted 10 February 2011 - 09:20 AM
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
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Posted 28 December 2011 - 06:50 PM
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
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