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• TxDOT delays closure of I-35E; had been scheduled for Sunday and Monday

  
  TRANSPORTATION — Authority: 587
  Michael Lindenberger/Reporter Updated: 12:40 p.m. Readers, if youve been following the blog over the past few hours you have seen a flurry of conflicting messages about lane closures planned for I-35E from Loop 12 to Harry Hines Boulevard. I am sorry about the confusion. Ive asked TxDOT why its communication about ...
  2 days ago

• Morris: Transportation crisis will get so bad its bound to get better

  
  TRANSPORTATION — Authority: 587
  Michael Lindenberger/Reporter Without big new funding, Texas can kiss its dreams of robust economic growth goodbye, and along the way learn to deal with powerfully bad traffic jams, deteriorating roads and more, North Texas-area transportation wizard Michael Morris told the Texas Transportation Commission today. ...
  1 week ago

• Texas needs leadership on transportation, Hank is stepping up

  
  Eye on Williamson — Authority: 135
  The DMN’s Transpiration blog has been monitoring today’s Texas Transportation Commission in Fort Worth. And, of course, funding, or the lack thereof, as been a major issue. TxDOT: Trans Texas Corridor dead but I-35 still needs massive help . [Tim Brown, director of the I-35 advisory committee] said that ...
  1 week ago

• TxDOT: Trans Texas Corridor dead but I-35 still needs massive help

  
  TRANSPORTATION — Authority: 587
  Michael Lindenberger/Reporter FORT WORTH -- The demise of the Trans Texas Corridor, Gov. Rick Perrys vision of a massive and privately financed network of toll roads, hasnt killed the need for big-ticket improves to Interstate 35, which transportation officials today called the most important corridor in Texas. "We ...
  1 week ago

• I-35, privacy issues to top Texas Transportation Commission agenda in Fort Worth Thursday

  
  TRANSPORTATION — Authority: 587
  Michael Lindenberger/Reporter Photo credit: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, all rights reserved. Photographs by David Woo, Tom Jenkins, and provided by courtesy of Tadao Ando Architect & Associates. Texas highway chiefs meet Thursday for their monthly meeting, but wont be holding court in the storied ...
  1 week ago

• Raise the gasoline tax?

  
  Burkablog — Authority: 518
  In the comments to my earlier post, “Dewhurst hits bottom,” referring to the light gov’s op-ed piece in today’s American Statesman, I wrote about what I would have done to close the budget deficit. One of my recommendations would be to raise the gasoline tax, index it to inflation, and issue bonds on the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Emmett on commuter rail

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 145
  County Judge Ed Emmett’s op ed piece is one part an argument for commuter rail, and one part an argument for who should be in charge of it. I suppose the fact that he’s making that case is a good sign for commuter rail to actually happen – if we’re not talking about why but instead are discussing how, that ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Grand Parkway ain’t dead yet

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 145
  It may not receive stimulus funds , but don’t go presiding over Last Rites for the Grand Parkway . Commissioners Court on Tuesday delayed a planned request to reallocate $181 million in federal stimulus funds for part of the 180-mile Grand Parkway project, after the Harris County Attorney’s Office said that ...
  3 weeks ago

• Transportation schemes are continuing, despite “death” of the TTC

  
  Eye on Williamson — Authority: 135
  Transportation schemes are continuing, despite “death” of the TTC Some things everyone must keep in mind before whenever how to pay for  highways, or highway financing, is discussed. Sooner or later somehow the taxpayers of Texas will have to pay for new roads – highways in particular. Currently there are ...
  3 weeks ago

• Math with M1EK, Lesson 1

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 464
  Its come up again, this time on the twitter . The old road-warrior chestnut argument that it doesnt matter if urbanites pay a much higher percentage of their driving costs than do suburbanites, because suburbanites drive more miles overall. This tactic is a favorite of the folks at various car blogs that M1EK ...
  3 weeks ago

• It time for truth and leadership on transportation in Texas

  
  Eye on Williamson — Authority: 135
  The problem from the beginning with the TTC was not that it was an ambitious plan for transportation. The problem was that it was a secret plan, devised by the governor, TxDOT, and corporations, without the input of Texans, and then forced upon us. It was a text book case of how government should not be done. - Via ...
  4 weeks ago

• Texas still on the hook for TTC money

  
  Eye on Williamson — Authority: 135
  While the GOP candidates bicker over who is more responsible for the neglect of our transpiration infrastructure here in Texas: Perry or Hutchison: At a news conference Wednesday, Transportation commissioner Ted Houghton — a Perry appointee — jokingly introduced himself as “the most arrogant commissioner of ...
  4 weeks ago

• CASA conference and billboard in San Marcos this week

  
  Newstreamz San Marcos — Authority: 492
  CASA will have their 20th Annual Conference in San Marcos as well as unveil their new Texas State License plate. Their new billboard seeks volunteers to reach their goals of a "CASA for Every Child."
  4 weeks ago

• How many times will the TTC die?

  
  Eye on Williamson — Authority: 135
  The Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) is like Jason from the Friday the 13th saga, it’s been killed, or pronounced dead, so many times we’ve lost count.  And today’s it has been declared dead again, TxDOT: I-35 toll twin officially dead . The tollroad twin to Interstate 35, once the centerpiece of Gov. Rick ...
  4 weeks ago

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