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Transportation
Reporting on roads, transit, infrastructure, and policy shaping travel and mobility across the state, from The Texas Tribune.
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Transportation
To fight huge drop in bus riders, North Texas transit agency faces hard choices about who gets service
The new bus layout coming in 2022 might bring more service to high-demand areas, but it could also modify routes that serve people at their doorsteps.
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Connecting Texas: Roads and bridges connect us
Roads are about destinations. They’re also about destiny.
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Politics
Texas revoked a Fort Worth man’s anti-Trump license plate. See what other vanity plates were rejected.
The state’s Department of Motor Vehicles revoked the “JAIL 45” plate after someone complained it was offensive.
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State Government
Someone has died on Texas roads every day for 19 years. Here’s a look at some reasons why — and ideas for turning the tide.
Ever since Nov. 8, 2000, someone has been killed in a Texas wreck each day. The state’s transportation department is spending an additional $600 million on safety — and trying to end all roadway deaths by 2050.
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Texas Tribune 10th Anniversary
Tenth Talks: Watch four experts predict the future of Texas cities
In this edition of Tenth Talks, The Texas Tribune’s yearlong video series on the next 10 years of Texas, top leaders in housing, homelessness and transportation give Texas cities a decade’s worth of marching orders.
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Homeless in Texas
Texas getting ready to move homeless residents camping beneath Austin highways
The Texas Department of Transportation began posting notices Tuesday letting homeless Austin residents know they must leave encampments under state overpasses by early next week.
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Transportation
Texas’ $7 billion plan to remake Houston highways once again targets homes, businesses in communities of color
Historic black neighborhoods like Independence Heights and the Fifth Ward are in the crosshairs of Houston highway plans, decades after expressways separated communities from the rest of the city.
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Transportation
Texas road congestion is hitting a breaking point. Are voters ready to approve more public transit spending?
As road congestion worsens in Texas cities, public transit authorities are racing to raise money for vast expansions of light rail and buses to transport the state’s growing population.
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New Texas Laws 2019
Texas raises sentencing for hit-and-run car accidents to equivalent of DWI manslaughter
A new law increased the punishment for failing to stop and render aid to match the sentence for DWI manslaughter. The goal is to deter drunken drivers from leaving the scene of an accident.