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Metro officials talk as if University Line will happen

Tuesday, December 4, 2012
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Metro officials say despite the fears that rail expansion is dead, they remain very committed to the University Line. Now they need to come up with the money.

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Despite morning wreck on I-10, accident clearance improving

Monday, December 3, 2012

Monday morning wasn’t a great time to be driving into downtown Houston. A truck accident blocked westbound Interstate 10 near Taylor, snarling traffic in both directions and closing the westbound lanes for almost five hours. No one was injured, but the inconvenience to motorists was enormous. The freeway backed up for miles, and people took  Read More

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    • Walking around some of Houston is a big step

    Friday, November 30, 2012

    Peter Brown, former Houston councilman and head of Better Houston, put out an interesting, albeit occasionally rhyming, video this week urging area residents to think about pedestrian benefits. I’ll let “Pedestrian Pete” do his own explaining. Parts of Houston, to be sure, are very walkable. Both urban and suburban streets in a lot of communities  Read More

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    Solo drivers can use I-45 carpool lanes, for a price

    Thursday, November 29, 2012

    Drivers don’t need a buddy to hop into the carpool lane along Interstate 45 north of downtown any more; but they will need some money if they use them solo. Metro officials announced this week that the carpool lane along the North Freeway is now a high-occupancy toll lane, meaning drivers without a passenger can  Read More

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    MetroLift reference in obituary prompts service review

    Della Christine Jones died in September at age 78, but that didn’t stop her from voicing her concerns about Houston’s  public transportation service for seniors and disabled residents on Thursday, and maybe doing something about it. Spurred by a line in Jones’ obituary critical of the MetroLift service, Metropolitan Transit Authority board members said they  Read More

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    Relief coming, sometime, for high congestion areas

    Tuesday, November 27, 2012

    It’s not going to happen in time for the madness of Christmas shopping this year, but relief is coming to the major freeway interchange around The Galleria. It’s just going to take a lot of study. Friday, members of the Houston-Galveston Area Council’s Transportation Policy Committee are scheduled to consider spending more than $30 million  Read More

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    The devil’s in the details with transportation spending

    Few in Austin disagree with the need to invest in Texas’ infrastructure, but as today’s story pointed out, the proposed methods vary. And all of them seem to have some opposition. State Sen. Tommy Williams, for example, proposes using the gas tax for maintenance, stripping out the diversions to other programs and then raising the tag  Read More

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    Minus a gas tax hike, lawmakers look for other options

    Monday, November 26, 2012

    The search is on for something, anything, palatable to voters and lawmakers to fund transportation other than  increasing the gas tax. Ideas are starting to come out of Austin in advance of the upcoming legislative session. Among the observations is that Texas needs to scale back on its debt reliance, too. Here’s a bit from  Read More

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