Fort Worth And Dallas Could Be Connected By A 64-Mile Bike Trail
It probably won’t do for a daily commute, but those looking to get between the Metroplex’s anchor cities are on the verge of a new option.
It probably won’t do for a daily commute, but those looking to get between the Metroplex’s anchor cities are on the verge of a new option.
The future of transportation took another step from science fiction to science fact.
Sifting through the twists and turns of Austin's ridesharing battle.
Austin's music industry held a press conference in support of ridesharing, but it's worth considering why they believe it's City Council who needs to bend.
Uber and Lyft haven’t yet declared their departure from Austin, but there are already others ready to take their place.
After a review of years of citations by state troopers raised questions of racial profiling, DPS is trying out a new method.
The expansion of I-35 may be the worst thing that’s happened to Salado since the railroad left town.
Every year, Texas' growing population makes traffic a bit more unbearable.
Find a millennial and ask what that means.
A San Marcos student got creative after her license was revoked for suspicion of DWI.
The heretical choice to not own a vehicle in a city that worships the automobile.
After an Uber driver was accused of rape, the friendly relationship between Dallas and the transportation company could be getting frosty.
High speed rail advocates overcame a hurdle in the legislative session last Thursday, meaning that the bullet train between Dallas and Houston could become a reality. Not everyone’s too happy about that.
Houston, Dallas, and … Laredo?
The transportation company seeks a change in the way it’s regulated on a statewide basis, and it’s managed to mobilize a lot of supporters—both in and out of Texas. But does a statewide regulatory platform for Uber make sense?
It may be his most ambitious invention yet.
Uber comes to Lubbock.
Recent actions by state government have reinforced my belief that the state rarely does anything FOR the public; it only does things TO the public. The latest example is that Texas insurance commissioner Julia Rathgeber allowed the three largest home insurance companies to impose significant rate increases. Rathgeber could have
Enjoy cruising freely, San Antonio.
Uber, Lyft, Sidecar, and the rest of the quasi-legal services that allow everyday drivers to get paid for giving rides to strangers took a big step in Houston last week—and Dallas might be next.
The Dallas-based national bus line got its start in 1914 transporting iron ore miners in Minnesota.
Why Texas is stuck with its transportation policy.
Yep, pretty much every city in this state is awful for walkers.
Although representatives of San Antonio's taxi companies think that some of them are "barbaric."
Without the inefficiency of air travel and the impossibility of high-speed rail, business travelers might well be looking at a future of riding the bus between Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio.
The legal status of "disruptive" transportation apps like Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar is in question. But as federal judges weigh in on the rules that keep them from operating at full capacity in Texas, the bigger question is whether or not these services meet a legitimate need.
Riding a bike in any Texas city is a dangerous proposition—and it's almost always because of human negligence.
The city will test a new pilot program that will close certain streets to automobile traffic, leaving them reserved for cyclists and pedestrians, during the month of April.
I mean, yeah, we've all wanted to magically zip through stalled traffic at 100mph, but that doesn't mean we'd actually do it.
Oregon is considering a "vehicle miles traveled" tax. Should Texas?
“Transparency” is a word that is frequently invoked in the Capitol. But it is honored more often in the breach than the observance. Take the current battle over transportation funding. The problem is that the state has chosen to finance transportation by issuing bonds. This is a clever way to
Joe Straus' statement on the failure of the House to agree on a solution to the state's transportation needs is worth posting, because it lays bare the failure of the state's leaders to address the real problem.
Will voters support a constitutional amendment for more spending on roads, after seeing all the construction that is going on?
A proposal to expand funding for transportation may face some snarls in the Texas House.
UPDATE: REP. DARBY HAS PULLED DOWN HIS BILL, AND IN DOING SO SUGGESTED THAT IT WOULD BE TAKEN UP IN A SPECIAL SESSION.Michael Quinn Sullivan is at it again. Writing on the Empower Texans website, he assails the House leadership for scheduling a bill raising fees for transportation.
Two questions for Ginger Goodin, of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute.
It’s big, it’s fast, it’s powerful, it eats gas, it’s the Suburban.
George H. W. Bush has given Texas the Republican convention—and little else.
Texans tell why they love their Suburbans.
The nuts and bolts of a Suburban are more complicated than you might think.
All roads have to go somewhere; but it could be that roads in Texas are going the wrong way.
Yes, the Texas Council of Engineering Companies has a self-interest in roadbuilding, needless to say, but so does everyone who drives on Texas roads. The point of the TCEC statement, as the headline says, is that there is a cost to doing nothing. TRANSPORTATION: THE COST OF DOING NOTHING No
The following two paragraphs are the conclusion of an article that appeared in the Pasadena Citizen about an appearance by Kay Bailey Hutchison yesterday in which she discussed her transportation plan. The article appears on the Hutchison campaign web site: When asked about paying for transportation improvements, she was less
The Hutchison campaign’s Joe Pounder criticized Perry yesterday for getting his facts mixed up over how much Texas gets from the feds from the federal gasoline tax money it sends to Washington. Here’s what Pounder wrote: Rick Perry and his campaign are confused. They are so eager to launch negative
The Texas Public Policy Foundation testified before the House Transportation committee this week concerning the mammoth local option transportation funding bill that has passed the Senate. TPPF's Justin Keener expressed alarm about the rising cost of government (to no one's surprise): Between 2000 and 2008, the state’s total budget grew
I'm intrigued by SB 855, John Carona's local option tax legislation to fund transportation improvements in the Dallas-Fort Worth region. Austin, San Antonio, and El Paso have also attached themselves to the bill. It would seem that such a bill--a tax increase! and new fees!--wouldn't have much of a chance
In an interview with the Dallas Morning News this week, Gov. Rick Perry advocated an end to all diversions of gas tax money from the Highway Fund, which is used primarily to finance road construction. But two key senators believe the current budget estimates make that highly unlikely
These days, a plane trip can entail more time in the terminal than in the air. But why get stressed when you can have a massage, taste Texas wines, go for a jog, check your e-mail—even eat gumbo while watching (other people’s) planes take off? A survivor’s guide to DFW,
From Paris to Dallas, everyone’s asking, Will the bullet train ever get on track?
A breakdown in state tow truck regulation leaves motorists stranded.