Developing Stories

Thinking big on transportation and land-use planning

"...transportation decisions. Like last year, when I was telling TxDOT: "You're not going to get everything you want in..."

Aug. 8, 2008 News Column by Katherine Gregor

City Council Notebook

Town Lake Animal Center threatens to swallow the evening, and Will Wynn hates morning congestion.

"...25: Some paper-shuffling over the Advance Funding Agreement with TxDOT over who pays how and what for the proposed..."

Oct. 11, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...state. On Aug. 7, he sent a letter to TxDOT Chair Ric Williamson requesting a report on the number,..."

Aug. 17, 2007 News Feature

Transportation

"...TxDOT Flunking: At almost every turn on transportation, legislators requested..."

May 11, 2007 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Fixing 290: A Different Alternative

Build a bypass around US 290 West through Oak Hill by completing another segment of State Highway 45

"...– but urged the group to consider compromise if TxDOT does not support the parkway. The Fix290 group has..."

April 13, 2007 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Naked City

"...Midland-Odessa Transportation Alliance is now backing the corridor, though TxDOT officials insist the project is far from a done..."

March 30, 2007 News Feature

Cease-Fire Ends in Southwest Road Wars

Environmentalists charge that Daugherty has been working backroom deals for southwest roads

"...the Fix 290 coalition, showed a graphic of the TxDOT version of the "Oak Hill super tollway" and stressed..."

Sept. 22, 2006 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Toll Roads Will Be Burden

"...we chose collaboration over confrontation in our approach to TxDOT and the CAMPO Board. As an insider in Fix290..."

June 21, 2006 Postmarks

Shall We Bike?

Local bike advocates pedal optimistically uphill

"...TxDOT spokesman John Hurt says the "thorny" highway intersections issue..."

May 26, 2006 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...road deals are guided by special-interest politics, centered around TxDOT and the road lobby. The biggest road contractors have..."

March 3, 2006 Column

The Public Is Not Clamoring for New Roads

"...road deals are guided by special-interest politics, centered around TxDOT and the road lobby. The biggest road contractors have..."

Feb. 28, 2006 Postmarks

Point Austin: Getting Into Bonds

When the wish lists are written, will the money follow the speeches?

"...itself had been approved under false pretenses – that TxDOT planners had intentionally disguised available funds for certain regional..."

Jan. 28, 2005 News Column by Michael King

Austin @ Large: Wreck on the Highway

Why the dogs can't catch the toll road speed machine

"...only with "fully funded" roads – as confirmed by TxDOT District Engineer Bob Daigh at the CAMPO meeting –..."

Sept. 17, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

The CAMPO board sticks up for fiscal equity on the highway front

"...that only new road capacity would be tolled. But TxDOT District Engineer Bob Daigh insists the agency's cupboard is..."

June 18, 2004 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Doesn't Like CTRMA's All or Nothing Approach

"...capacity." As an Eastside resident, I enthusiastically watched as TxDOT began expanding U.S. 183 into a full-fledged highway, with..."

June 1, 2004 Postmarks

LCRA Express Spawns Hamilton Pool Traffic Jam

Despite plenty of reasons to go slow, the agency – and its developer friends – are in a big hurry

"...TxDOT spokesman John Hurt is already envisioning the twin projects'..."

May 14, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...TxDOT Shell Game..."

March 12, 2004 Column

Day Trips

Two new guides lead the way to some hidden Central Texas jewels

"...maps. While the detail isn't as minute as the TxDOT county maps (486-5014 or txdot.lib.utexas.edu), the 81/2-by-11-inch books are..."

Feb. 27, 2004 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...TxDOT has introduced the GOTCHA! program to report roadway litterers...."

Dec. 5, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

City Hall's Bumpy Road

Can Austin planners and the City Council ever bring an end to the local transportation wars?

"...to build new roads. Currently TPSD is working with TxDOT to extend Koenig Lane and Spicewood Springs Road, acquiring..."

May 23, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Naked City

Austin Stories

"...HB 483 would amend his own 2001 bill directing TxDOT to open a state-owned small-craft airport in Central Texas...."

Jan. 31, 2003 News Feature

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

The sluggish transportation beat picks up speed and energy after the election.

"...pre-filed bills to give the RMA (a sort of mini-TxDOT that's a joint venture between Travis and Williamson counties)..."

Nov. 22, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Austin Stories

"...Gov. Rick Perry has asked TxDOT to delay adopting new rules restricting the number of..."

Aug. 23, 2002 News Feature

Naked City

The city's new police review panel isn't as apolitical as it was supposed to be.

"...won't be completed for decades. Back in July, when TxDOT first presented its three concepts for the redesigned roadway..."

Dec. 14, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Last Texas Ranger

They don't make 'Rangers' like Walker anymore.

"...Dept. of Criminal Justice or Public Safety, but Transportation, TxDOT, which had to close roads for scenes of Walker..."

Oct. 26, 2001 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Postmarks

Expanding on neighborhood expansion, taking C. Robison to task, and much more.

"...responsible for putting the brakes at least temporarily on TxDOT's plans to add multiple lanes, HOV lanes, and/or newly..."

July 13, 2001 Column

Naked City

The City Council moves forward with Austin's regional transportation plan, but assures neighbors of road-widening projects proposed in the plan that they, not the state of Texas, have the authority to decide what gets built and when.

"...way, even if right now our transportation plan says TXDoT can improve them in its way -- which usually..."

June 15, 2001 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Postmarks

What destroys a neighborhood? How can bikes help? What's wrong with the Julia Roberts/Brad Pitt vehicle THE MEXICAN? A few answers to these questions---and more!---right here, right now.

"...TxDOT (Texas Dept. of Transportation) is currently studying possible changes..."

March 23, 2001 Column

Council Watch

Too Big for Our Bridges: Will Pedestrians Take Back Seat to Traffic? That's an Easy One

"...Transportation, and any expansion would have to go through TxDOT. And although a TxDOT representative wrote in an April..."

April 14, 2000 News Column by Erica C. Barnett

Light Headed?

What Commuters Want

"...could end up paying for them. But CAMPO, with TxDOT's blessing, is already studying "HOV concepts" for the IH-35..."

July 23, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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