Texas
States, We Need Your Vision to Get to ‘Zero’
State DOTs play a central role in the safety and sustainability of transportation systems because states set policies. Here are two that do it poorly and two that do it well.
December 26, 2023
Highway Boondoggles 2023: Pandering in the Panhandle
How bad is this boondoggle? Supporters are trying to sell it as if it includes a fancy deck plaza — which it does not.
November 20, 2023
Austin Becomes The Largest U.S. City to Eliminate Parking Minimums
The Violet Crown City voted to make the change months ago — but now that a revision of the city's byzantine zoning code is finally done, the law will actually go into effect.
November 3, 2023
The Nation’s Biggest Anti-Highway Rally In History Is Happening in Texas This Weekend
This Sunday, rally to stop one of the worst highway boondoggles of all!
November 3, 2023
The I-35 Expansion in Austin, Texas Shows Why States Should Never Control Their Own Environmental Review Process
A little-known loophole in federal law allows states like Texas to rubber-stamp their own environmental reviews — even when the projects they're reviewing are harmful highway boondoggles.
October 30, 2023
What Will It Take to Build a Bullet Train in Texas?
A long-fought high speed rail project may be coming back from the dead — and what happens next could be instructive for other communities hoping to someday run trains in highway-dominated states.
August 29, 2023
How One City Used Transit to Cut Traffic During a Taylor Swift Mega-Concert
Building highway lanes will never, ever, ever get America's traffic problems under control — but a new study suggests that investing in other modes will, even when a massive pop star is in town.
August 16, 2023
Every Growing City Should Heed Austin’s New Parking Law
One of America's fastest-growing cities has eliminated parking minimums citywide, sending a clear message that a flood of new residents doesn't have to be followed by a flood new asphalt.
May 17, 2023
Two Massacres in Texas — One With a Car, One With a Gun — Reveal Two Sides of the Culture of Violence
Two eerily similar mass killings in Texas had very different coverage. One involved a gun. The other, a car.
May 10, 2023
Visit Your Nearest National Park(ing Lot) Today!
Sick of Shenandoah? Tired of the Tetons? Why not check out all the other land that Americans devote billions of dollars a year to preserving for the benefit of future generations: our planet-leading oversupply of public car storage?
April 26, 2023
