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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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DART approves rail expansions, but debate over priorities isn’t over
Transit agency moving ahead with suburban rail line and downtown subway, but not everyone is happy.
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New urbanists skeptical of North Texas transit agency’s expansion plan
Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s plan to build a new suburban rail line and make a second downtown train route a subway is drawing questions.
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Dallas’ Love Field hides its presidential history
Plans to create an exhibit at the airport to commemorate where Lyndon Baines Johnson was sworn in as president after John F. Kennedy’s assassination have faced numerous mysterious hurdles.
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Dallas mayor wants holistic analysis of riverside toll road
Mayor Mike Rawlings wants the divisive Trinity Parkway to be included in TxDOT’s CityMAP study of downtown Dallas highways.
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Lawmakers Frustrated Over Costs to Pay Off Tolls
Paying off most of the debt Texas has racked up building toll roads would cost about $36.7 billion, a final report from the Texas Department of Transportation revealed, a tall order for state lawmakers who would like to wean the state off tolled highways.
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A&M Researchers Unveil Freight Delivery Without Trucks
Back in 1998, the federal government asked the Texas A&M Transportation Institute to find a way of moving freight without trucks on highways. Eighteen years later, the researchers debuted their prototype on Friday.
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State Government
Texas Lawmakers Learn Details of Ride-Hailing Laws in Several Other States
As Texas lawmakers consider filing legislation next year related to ride-hailing companies, they learned Tuesday that more than 30 states have passed laws calling for some level of regulation of companies like Uber and Lyft.
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Auto Title Companies Sue Texas DMV Over New Fee Limit
Eight title service companies filed a lawsuit against the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, saying the department’s service fee limits could put them out of the business.
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Rural Texas County Tries to Derail High-Speed Train
In a rebuke of a private firm’s plans to build a bullet train between Houston and Dallas, local officials in rural southeastern Texas moved Tuesday to restrict high-speed rail development in their corner part of the state.