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.
Transportation
Reporting on roads, transit, infrastructure, and policy shaping travel and mobility across the state, from The Texas Tribune.
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Economy
TribBlog: Road Warriors
Introducing the House Select Committee on Transportation Funding.
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Transportation
Empower Texans v. Vicki Truitt, gas tax (May)
A gasoline tax robocall from May 2009.
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Transportation
Empower Texans v. Vicki Truitt, gas tax (Fall)
A robocall message attacking Truitt for supporting a local option gasoline tax.
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State Government
Primary Color: HD-98
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.
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State Government
A Hard Road
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.
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Transportation
Interview with Bill Meadows
Transportation Commissioner Bill Meadows talks about what the Texas Department of Transportation needs to do to repair relations with the State Legislature.
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Transportation
Up in the Air
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.
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State Government
The Brief: January 27, 2010
Kay and Rick both have some ’splaining to do.
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Transportation
The Brief: January 25, 2010
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.