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Trinity Decision: Is Toll Road Necessary to Rebuild Traffic...
Oct 29/07
Supporters of the Trinity Toll Road in Dallas
say that if voters scrap the road in Tuesday's election, it may be
impossible to fix the most congested transportation stretch in North
Texas will suffer. KERA's Shelley Kofler joins me now as we continue
our series of stories, The Trinity Decision...
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i-35 Highway of Holiness Plans to Counter Impure Culture...
Oct 27/07
A counter-culture initiative in cities along the
I-35 highway is seeking to bring spiritual reformation in American
culture. For 35 days of the ”I-35: Highway of Holiness” initiative, at
least 12 cities along I-35 will host 24-hour prayer rooms. The
initiative is part of the Light the Highway movement and will be held
Oct. 28 - Dec. 1 along the 1,500-mile length of I-35...
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i-35 Highway of Holiness Campaign Begins in Laredo and Duluth...
Oct 26/07
The 35 days of “I-35 : Highway of Holiness,”
will begin this weekend with pre-kickoff events in Laredo, Texas, and
Duluth, Minn., the ends of the interstate. The I-35 initiative is part
of Light the Highway, a movement organizers hope will bring spiritual
reformation to cities, regions and ultimately nations...
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Driver dies in fiery truck crash off I-35...
Oct 21/07
A truck driver was killed in San Marcos late
Friday when he was trapped in the burning wreckage of his 18-wheeler,
police said. The truck veered onto the right shoulder of Interstate 35
near McCarty Lane at about 11:30 p.m., where it hit an unattended
vehicle parked there. The 18-wheeler then crashed through an overpass
guardrail and fell 18 feet, bursting into flames. The driver, Matias
Doreteo Lujan, 47, of Dallas, was unable to escape the wreck...
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Ken Allard: Give TxDOT red light before it goes too far...
Oct 18/07
Today, Travis County District Judge Orlinda
Naranjo will decide if TX DOT officials acted illegally in spending
taxpayer funds to drum up political support for toll roads (TxDOT's
preferred solution to the state's transportation crisis)...
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Severe Weather Breaks Out In Southeast Texas...
Oct 17/07
A tornado warning was issued Wednesday morning
for portions of Hardin, Tyler and Jasper Counties as severe storms
fired up in Southeast Texas. Showers and storms are possible Wednesday
morning along and west of a line from Lampasas to Arlington to
Sherman, but rain chances end by early afternoon west of Interstate 35
as the dry line moves through...
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County preparing to clear Dallas accidents faster...
Oct 16/07
David Wittwer knows the aggravation of being
stuck in Dallas traffic after a freeway wreck. "You just feel like
you're worthless," he says. "You just sit there doing nothing, I mean
you can use your cell phone but for the most part you are just losing
productivity." Freeway congestion costs the Dallas economy more than
$2.5 billion a year...
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Lane switch on I-35... Oct 11/07
A traffic switch is planned for Interstate 35E
in Dallas and Ellis counties. Construction on the $62 million TxDOT
project on I-35E, between Parkerville Road and U.S. Highway 77, will
enter a new phase of construction beginning at 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12.
Southbound I-35E traffic will be switched onto the new concrete
pavement in the median, allowing the contractor to begin building the
permanent southbound lanes...
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Decision time - again - on toll roads... Oct 7/07
Well, here we go again: to toll, or not to toll.
At least, that's what some foes of the pending toll road plan suggest.
The five-road plan the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization
board will vote on tonight, they say, is just a replay of 2004: double
taxation in the service of craven special interests. Reasonable people
can disagree on this plan, and several members of the 19-member CAMPO
board probably will disagree tonight with those who say it's worthy of
a yes vote. However, it appears that a comfortable majority will vote
for the plan, which involves pieces of U.S. 290, U.S. 183 and Texas 71
in East Austin, other segments of U.S. 290 and Texas 71 where they
split at the Oak Hill "Y," and a new road called Texas 45 Southwest
connecting the Circle C neighborhood to Manchaca...
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Traffic not as heavy on I-35 this year for TX-OU...
Oct 6/07
It's Texas-OU weekend. Traditionally, that means
painful traffic jams and roadway madness. But in 2007 that doesn't
appear to be the case. There could be several reasons. Some people may
have left early to make sure there were no delays. Others may have
opted to watch the game on television Saturday after the Horns'
painful defeat last week against Kansas State. Some drivers may also
be using the SH 130 toll road to bypass the interstate altogether --
at least until they get to Waco...
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I-35 construction causing headaches for football fans...
Oct 5/07
Construction on I-35 is bound to give some
anxious football fans headaches as they head to Dallas for the Red
River Shootout. A four-mile construction zone north of Hillsboro has
I-35 narrowed down at the west and east split. So drivers going to the
Texas/O.U. game in Dallas must be in the right lane...
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Good Roads leader touts$5 billion road measure...
Oct 3/07
A proposed constitutional amendment on the Nov.
6 ballot would help the Texas Department of Transportation cope with
highway needs in the Permian Basin and congested metropolitan areas,
Texas Good Roads & Transportation Association Executive Vice President
Lawrence Olsen of Austin said Tuesday. Joined by State Transportation
Commissioner Fred Underwood of Lubbock, Olsen told a breakfast meeting
of the Midland-Odessa Transportation Alliance that Proposition 12 is
at the top of his priority list in the election, which offers 16
amendments on various topics. Olsen said it would let TxDOT issue $5
billion in general obligation bonds to add to the $16.6 billion it has
in the current biennium for highway construction and maintenance...
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