State To fund Freeport-Rosenberg Rail Study
January 24, 2018
Houston Chronicle-Texas transportation officials on Thursday approved $600,000 to study a rail line connecting Freeport and Rosenberg, which will need tens of millions of dollars and private investment to keep an anticipated flood of cargo containers from landing on Houston-area freeways. "We trying to move the ball a little bit further down and we're kind of on our own two-yard line at the moment," said Fort Bend County Commissioner Andy Meyers, a backer of plans to upgrade road and rail connections to Freeport, about 60 miles south of Houston.
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