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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
Reaction to Train Plan Less Rosy in Rural Texas
A private company’s plan to spend billions of dollars to develop a bullet train connecting Dallas and Houston has drawn strong support from the two cities. But reaction from communities along the 240-mile route has been mixed.
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Transportation
Business Group: Legislature Should Stop Gas Tax Diversions
The Texas Association of Business’ 2015 agenda calls for the Legislature to end diversions of state gas taxes from road funding and to dedicate half of motor vehicle sales taxes to road construction and maintenance.
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Criminal Justice
On First Day Allowed for Filing, Legislators Submit More Than 350 Bills
Two months ahead of the first day of the 84th legislative session, eager lawmakers on Monday filed bills addressing issues including guns, texting while driving, health, transportation and much more.
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University of Texas/Texas Tribune Polls
UT/TT Poll: Green Light for Transportation Plan
Using oil and gas tax money for transportation — instead of sending all of that money to the state’s Rainy Day Fund — appears to be just fine with the state’s voters, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
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Transportation
TxDOT Ends Program That Converts Paved Roads to Gravel
The Texas Department of Transportation has ended its controversial program aimed at converting some badly damaged paved roads to gravel, more than a year after the launch of the initiative drew national attention to the agency’s budget troubles.
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Politics
TribLive: A Conversation With Nichols and Clardy
Full video of my 10/23 TribLive conversation with state Rep. Travis Clardy, R-Nacogdoches, and state Sen. Robert Nichols, R-Jacksonville, on the campus of Stephen F. Austin State University.
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Transportation
At First Bullet Train Meeting, Location is Everything
Attendees at the first public meeting on a proposed high-speed rail line between Dallas and Houston told federal officials they’re for the project — so long as the stations are conveniently located downtown.
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Transportation
State Supreme Court to Decide Just What a Billboard is Worth
Public officials are nervously awaiting the high court’s ruling in a fight between TxDOT and Clear Channel Outdoor that could drive up future highway project costs.
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Transportation
Analysis: A Simple and Very Expensive Proposal
It’s one thing to say highway funds should go to highways. The problem is with all of the other programs those funds support.