The public comment period for Texas Department of Transportation’s Unified Transportation Program (UTP) is now open. The UTP is a ten-year plan that guides transportation strategies and spending within the state. Unfortunately, the plan has historically been hindered by a lack of citizen participation and questionable priorities. Last year’s UTP received only 23 comments for an overall rate of less …
The problems with Austin’s only rail transit line, the Red Line, are well documented and understood, even going so far as being used misleadingly by anti-transit activists to oppose light rail in general – even though the Red Line is not a light rail line, but a Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) running on a freight rail line. Following the failure …
In a long-running practice of tilting at windmills, the State of Texas pours billions of dollars and concrete every year to continue growing the massive webs of impervious surface (roads) attempting to address the perceived problem of congestion. Traffic crashes are a much bigger problem than congestion, costing the people of Texas at least twice as much. Even so, the …