New Name, New Gameplan for Billion-Dollar Lone Star Rail District
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Lone Star Rail District
Tuesday November 10, 2009 – By CityReader
The Lone Star Rail District has changed its name from Austin-San Antonio Intermunicipal Commuter Rail District to the simpler Lone Star Rail District. As the agency behind the LSTAR, a proposed passenger train between Georgetown and San Antonio, it has been authorized by the Legislature since the late ’90s but has yet to make any real headway.
The Statesman’s Ben Wear says,
“the train service is still mostly a line on a map. As agency board chairman Sid Covington says, the main obstacles to creating a commuter line between Austin and San Antonio are now and always have been Union Pacific freights and money.
It’s a matter of too much of the first and not enough of the latter.”
[via the Austin Post]
