Lawmakers have said it before, and today they said it again: Sweeping top-down change is needed within the Texas Department of Transportation.

At a House Transportation Committee meeting Wednesday, transportation commissioners and representatives from Grant Thornton, the Chicago-based consulting agency that compiled a $2 million TxDOT audit, testified about what could fix the TxDOT's cultural and operational woes.

A point of contention with the Grant Thornton report was that it criticized TxDOT's administration but not the Texas Transportation Commission. Committee Chairman Joe Pickett, D-El Paso, said this was surprising, but Susan Pentecost, a representative from Grant Thornton, said ...

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