{"id":16914,"date":"2025-10-23T04:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T04:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/16914\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T04:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T04:39:11","slug":"study-approved-for-an-austin-to-san-antonio-railway-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/16914\/","title":{"rendered":"Study approved for an Austin-to-San Antonio railway"},"content":{"rendered":"

AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Travis County Commissioners unanimously approved a study that will examine the possibility of linking Austin to San Antonio via a high-speed commuter rail.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, county commissioners agreed on the $124,953 study from HNTB Corporation, an engineering company, that will explore current rail infrastructure and potential service options along state highways and interstate regions.<\/p>\n

The proposed commuter rail would run between State Highway 130 and Interstate 10, likely easing commuting between the two cities.<\/p>\n

“This is really exciting,” Travis County Commissioner Brigid Shea (Precinct 2) said during Tuesday\u2019s commissioners meeting. “People are just ecstatic about the prospect because nobody likes being stuck on I-35, and it’s gonna get worse with all the construction.”<\/p>\n

According to a transit plan<\/a> from Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), without major travel behavior changes, the number of miles traveled daily by motor vehicles in the state is projected to grow by 42% between 2020 and 2050, increasing delays by around 12 to 36 minutes. \u00a0<\/p>\n

TxDOT is also working on a separate study looking to add a passenger line to the current railway that runs near Interstate 35. However, the line, owned by Union Pacific, already services freight trains, posing a potential conflict for additional passenger lines.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

This alternative line would extend for around 80\u201390 miles between Austin-Bergstrom International Airport and downtown San Antonio. The feasibility study is expected to be completed in March 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Travis County Commissioners unanimously approved a study that will examine the possibility of linking Austin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[834,132,134,133,837,223,82,27,840],"class_list":["post-16914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-app-nested-news","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-laura-baker","tag-news","tag-san-antonio","tag-texas","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}