HighSpeedRail

During its Jan. 23 meeting, the Regional Transportation Council approved spending $1 million — to be issued in $250,000 increments — for a potential legal fight over a Fort Worth to Dallas high-speed rail route.

The 45-member council, an independent policy group of the North Central Texas Council of Governments composed of elected and appointed officials, decided to allocate the funding “in preparation for potential litigation” by Dallas-based Hunt Realty Investments Inc. related to an environmental assessment for high-speed rail in the Fort Worth-Dallas area.

The funding request — the group’s first-ever preemptive legal response — was approved in a 42-3 vote at the council’s meeting in Arlington.