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[2] [3] [4] Following a 1987 train collision in Maryland, freight trains in high-speed areas were required to have speed limiters that could forcibly slow trains, rather than just alerting the operator through in-cab signals. In the Maryland crash, the signal panel had been partially disabled, including a muted whistle and a missing light bulb.
Texas Transportation Code Chapter 460 governs the DCTA board. DCTA is governed by a five-member board appointed by respective entities: one member appointed by each of the "founding municipalities" (Denton, Highland Village, and Lewisville) and two members appointed by the Denton County Commissioners Court from areas other than the founding ...
The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA, / aɪ s ˈ t i /) is a United States federal law that posed a major change to transportation planning and policy, as the first U.S. federal legislation on the subject in the post-Interstate Highway System era.
The Texas Central bullet train between Dallas and Houston is a project sought out for nearly four decades.
Article X of the Texas Constitution of 1876 covers railroad companies and the creation of the Railroad Commission of Texas.The federal government later created the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate railroads, and eight of the nine sections (all but section 2) of Article X were repealed in 1969 as "deadwood".
The jury is deciding on three different counts: violation of the federal Ku Klux Klan Act, violation of Texas law against civil conspiracy and violation of Texas law barring civil assault.
The Texas Railroad Commission: Understanding Regulation in America to the Mid-Twentieth Century. (2005). 323 pp. the standard history; online review; Childs, William R. "Origins of the Texas Railroad Commission's Power to Control Production of Petroleum: Regulatory Strategies in the 1920s." Journal of Policy History 1990 2(4): 353–387. ISSN ...
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