Texas Transit Association

… in this city that is highly-dependent on the auto.

Passengers wait in line to board a Houston Metro light rail train in downtown Houston.
Michael Stravato, AP PHoto
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The Houston region must increase its highway lane miles by 60 percent and construct a 349-mile rail network by 2025 to keep up with expected population growth, creating an $18 billion shortfall in transportation funding, the Houston-Galveston Area Council says.

Planners working over the past four years have identified the eight-county metropolitan region’s mobility needs for the next two decades, when it is projected to add 3 million residents.
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… in the Austin area. Long sought-after commuter rail between Georgetown and San Marcos might also free up land for more highway lanes on Austin’s MOPAC freeway.
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Three articles on passenger rail development in Houston and the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.
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Previous proposals to bring high-speed rail to Texas were more or less top-down efforts meant as much to sell trains and rail cars as to move people around the state.

But the Texas High Speed Rail and Transportation Corp. is different. It brings together elected officials along possible rail corridors, and it emphasizes the movement of people.
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When voters statewide agreed in 2000 to go into debt to pay for traffic relief, state leaders repeatedly said the money would be spent on highway projects they otherwise couldn’t afford.

Now the state’s lead transportation agency is leaning heavily toward spending money from the Texas Mobility Fund on different traffic remedies: toll roads and commuter trains.
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