The Houston region is the deadliest metro region in America, according to a powerful story the Houston Chronicle published this morning as the start of a series on the traffic safety epidemic of the nation’s 5th largest metropolis. The factors that contribute to the carnage boil down to a choice. The choice to wear a seat belt. The choice to …
The problems with Austin’s only rail transit line, the Red Line, are well documented and understood, even going so far as being used misleadingly by anti-transit activists to oppose light rail in general – even though the Red Line is not a light rail line, but a Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) running on a freight rail line. Following the failure …
In a long-running practice of tilting at windmills, the State of Texas pours billions of dollars and concrete every year to continue growing the massive webs of impervious surface (roads) attempting to address the perceived problem of congestion. Traffic crashes are a much bigger problem than congestion, costing the people of Texas at least twice as much. Even so, the …