I admit it's unlikely that TxDOT will be stripped of its jurisdiction over city roads and renamed the Rural Texas Public Works and Electrification Authority .
But there are lots of serious people who want Texas cities to have more control over their own infrastructure.
State Senator Kirk Watson for one :
If accountability [at TxDOT] is to be more centralized, Watson wants decision-making better distributed.
He proposes giving more authority to the metropolitan planning organizations (the next...
Perry vetoes smart growth bill
Did anyone know that the Texas Legislature passed a "smart growth" bill? I first heard about it when Perry vetoed it.The legislation merely established a working group to study and...
Abolish the U.S. Department of Transportation
Urbanists everywhere are furious (and rightly so) at the Senate's decision to slice mass-transit funding from the stimulus bill. If nothing else, the federal government ought to help...
More on the unintended consequences of the SDS charter amendment
I pointed out in my first post that the Stop Domain Subsidies charter amendment would extend the ban on city subsidies to infrastructure improvements and that, although the charter amendment...
The Big 5-0
Austin’s former mayor and current state senator Kirk Watson hits the mid-century mark today, turning 50 as he tries (so far without success) to dust himself off after his highly public...
Good News, Bad News
"CAMPO wresting rail planning from Capital Metro" is the headline. Sounds good to me - Wynn and Watson in charge means smarter rail than Capital Metro's stupid useless stuck-in-traffic...
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