The latest transportation news from The Texas Tribune.
State Rep. Vicki Truitt, R-Southlake, has won and won easily since wresting the district from a GOP incumbent in a 1998 runoff. But this year is different. She'll face three opponents and voters who might be in an anti-incumbent mood. Full Story
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Transportation Commissioner Bill Meadows talks about what the Texas Department of Transportation needs to do to repair relations with the State Legislature. Full Story
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Lawmakers are still perturbed at TxDOT, but the state's transportation agency is trying to do better. The first step, says one commissioner: Figure out how to meet the transportation needs of Texas citizens — which it's not doing. Full Story
Feeling blue over paltry federal funding for high-speed rail? Forget about it. Two Austin visionaries are already looking ahead to the next transportation innovations. Full Story
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Kay and Rick both have some ’splaining to do. Full Story
Is Texas building a highway to nowhere? No. But Texas legislators like their pork barrel transportation spending just as much as their Alaskan counterparts, apparently. Full Story
This week, The Daily Beast released its list of the 75 worst commutes in the country. Is yours on it? Full Story
It's the first TribCast of the new year. Evan, Ross, Elise and Ben discuss the finalized ballots for statewide races, whether the transportation issue will drive voters and the possibility of making this red state's blue dot less blue. Full Story
An analysis of the claims in Team Kay's latest television ad includes a true claim and a distortion, according to Dallas television station WFAA-TV. Full Story
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A burnt-orange view of "Roads." Full Story
Team Kay is on the television airwaves this week with an ad hitting Governor Rick Perry on transportation policy. Full Story
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison has laid out her vision for the future of transportation in Texas. Full Story
A rundown of the data we've published so far — and a look ahead. Full Story
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Texas highways are efficient, unless you're in a car. Full Story
Texas has the worst rates of cargo and heavy equipment theft in the country. Yet while criminals are raking in billions of dollars each year, the state has never had an organized system to address the problem. Full Story
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NBC-5 in Dallas used our data application for a story on red-light cameras. Full Story
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Stiles and Babalola's long-awaited red-light camera data app. Grissom's two-parter on a powerful Texan's quest to change the DPS report on the crash that killed his son. Ramshaw's two-parter on transitional medicine. Thevenot on the charter school queue. And a ton of political news: KBH filed (but our TribCasters wondered about her path to the GOP nod); Debra Medina filed (and Hamilton tried to sort out what effect she'll have on the race); Farouk Shami defiantly remained in the Democratic primary (but Hu couldn't find evidence that he'd voted very often, let alone like a Democrat); and Rick Perry sent personalized messages to every Tom, Dick, and fill-in-the-blank. The best of our best from December 7 to 11, 2009 Full Story
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Next time you plan on speeding through an intersection after the signal changes to red, remember this: A camera could be watching. Full Story
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How we built the red-light camera app. Download the data and build your own — or embed ours as an iframe. Full Story
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Explore red-light camera intersections across Texas, or drill down to individual intersections to see images, crash figures and citation totals. Full Story