As private developer Texas Central moves ahead with plans to build what could be the country’s first high-speed rail line, a handful of state lawmakers hope to try next year to give the state more authority over the project. But they admit there may not be the legislative appetite.
Transportation
Reporting on roads, transit, infrastructure, and policy shaping travel and mobility across the state, from The Texas Tribune.
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Texas values collide in fight over Houston-Dallas high speed rail
A proposed high-speed rail line between the state’s two largest urban areas represents the collision of two things Texans hold dear: private property rights and an unrestrained free market
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Mayor Bill de Blasio says his “progressive vision” for New York City can be copied across the country
De Blasio, a two-term Democrat, answered questions about the subway, progressivism at the local and national levels and politics in an increasingly left-wing New York state.
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The Border Patrol is trying to stop truck drivers from smuggling migrants. But cases have increased.
After the bodies of 10 immigrants were pulled from a trailer in San Antonio, U.S. Border Patrol agents launched Operation Big Rig to combat immigrant smuggling by truck drivers.
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Criminal Justice
To pay for trauma centers, state program sinks thousands of Texas drivers into deep debt
In Texas, people with unpaid traffic tickets can lose their driver’s licenses and even go to jail because of the Driver Responsibility Program. Though lawmakers acknowledge the policy disproportionately hurts the poor, they’ve struggled to eliminate it.
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Transportation
Austin officials backing away from controversial rewrite of land-use regulations
Amid a fierce battle over the city’s attempts to improve traffic and combat housing unaffordability, Austin leaders are looking to drop CodeNEXT and start a new process.
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Demographics
Texas cities want millennials living downtown. So why does the state keep building highways to the suburbs?
As young, educated professionals push away old ideas about how to move around Texas cities, transportation planners’ vision for the future is still largely influenced by the past.
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How a federal lawsuit could open the door to online voter registration in Texas
Texas is one of just a handful of states that doesn’t offer online voter registration. Advocates are hoping a recent ruling from a federal judge could change that.
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Transportation
Driverless car service set to begin in North Texas this summer
A suburb in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex is reportedly set to get the nation’s first self-driving car service.