The latest transportation news from The Texas Tribune.
The North Texas Tollway Authority board just accepted the Transportation Commission's deal for building State Highway 161 by a vote of eight to one. The state commissioners offered the deal on Wednesday that allows NTTA to effectively borrow TXDOT's credit rating in making deals. Full Story
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Sensible people in the Metroplex may have given up long ago on Southwest Parkway and State Highway 161, two huge projects first proposed back in the 1960s. Now they're toll roads — one incomplete, one not yet started — and the money to build them may finally be available. There is, of course, a catch. Full Story
Introducing the House Select Committee on Transportation Funding. Full Story
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A gasoline tax robocall from May 2009. Full Story
State Rep. Vicki Truitt, R-Southlake, has won and won easily since wresting the district from a GOP incumbent in a 1998 runoff. But this year is different. She'll face three opponents and voters who might be in an anti-incumbent mood. Full Story
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A robocall message attacking Truitt for supporting a local option gasoline tax. Full Story
Lawmakers are still perturbed at TxDOT, but the state's transportation agency is trying to do better. The first step, says one commissioner: Figure out how to meet the transportation needs of Texas citizens — which it's not doing. Full Story
Transportation Commissioner Bill Meadows talks about what the Texas Department of Transportation needs to do to repair relations with the State Legislature. Full Story
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Feeling blue over paltry federal funding for high-speed rail? Forget about it. Two Austin visionaries are already looking ahead to the next transportation innovations. Full Story
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Kay and Rick both have some ’splaining to do. Full Story
Is Texas building a highway to nowhere? No. But Texas legislators like their pork barrel transportation spending just as much as their Alaskan counterparts, apparently. Full Story
This week, The Daily Beast released its list of the 75 worst commutes in the country. Is yours on it? Full Story
It's the first TribCast of the new year. Evan, Ross, Elise and Ben discuss the finalized ballots for statewide races, whether the transportation issue will drive voters and the possibility of making this red state's blue dot less blue. Full Story
An analysis of the claims in Team Kay's latest television ad includes a true claim and a distortion, according to Dallas television station WFAA-TV. Full Story
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A burnt-orange view of "Roads." Full Story
Team Kay is on the television airwaves this week with an ad hitting Governor Rick Perry on transportation policy. Full Story
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison has laid out her vision for the future of transportation in Texas. Full Story
A rundown of the data we've published so far — and a look ahead. Full Story
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Texas highways are efficient, unless you're in a car. Full Story
Texas has the worst rates of cargo and heavy equipment theft in the country. Yet while criminals are raking in billions of dollars each year, the state has never had an organized system to address the problem. Full Story
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