HIGH-SPEED RAIL AT CROSSROADS DAVIS WANTS PROJECT UNDER STATE CONTROL; BILL SEEKS NEW AGENCY
It’ll be a prominent piece of the 2004 state ballot: Do you support a nearly $10 billion bond initiative for a bullet train that promises to zip passengers throughout the state at 220 mph?
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Officials looking for alternative ways to deal with growing traffic congestion may ask motorists to consider doing something they never have done before — pay tolls on local roads. Several planned highway lanes on the North and West sides have been identified as potential candidates for the first toll roads in Bexar County.
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Census data released Wednesday confirm what hundreds of thousands of commuters in North Texas stalled daily already know: People are not just headed to Dallas and Fort Worth anymore for work. The seven-county region’s booming outlying areas, especially Collin County, attracted an ever-expanding share of the region’s commuters in the 1990s, with more than 50 percent of suburban commuters heading to suburbs outside Dallas and Tarrant counties for jobs, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
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The future of transportation in North Texas may include more toll roads - even on highways where motorists don’t pay to drive now. Two state lawmakers filed bills that would create a regional transportation authority to oversee the construction of roads and rail lines. The six-county North Texas Regional Mobility Authority could supersede the powers of tollway and transit agencies already in place.
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Plans to build a trolley system in downtown Corpus Christi are moving more quickly than expected, and $400,000 has been set aside to draft the environmental effects and logistics of such a project.
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