Topic – Roads

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  Report: Texas neglects road maintenance

  Costs average driver $336/year

  Steve Hawley, May 07, 10.

  The Texas Public Interest Research Group found that poor roads cost the average Texas driver $336 in car maintenance costs every year.

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  H-GAC TPC

  Meeting notes - April 23, 2010

  Vilas Bhuchar, Apr 26, 10.

  TPC members delayed voting on a 2011-2014 TIP draft, partly because projects like the Grand Parkway were left out of it.

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  Traffic deaths drop to lowest level since 1954

  33,963 deaths in 2009

  Vilas Bhuchar, Mar 17, 10.

  Traffic deaths in 2009 were at their lowest level since 1954 and nearly 9 percent lower than 2008 figures.

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  County dismisses Parkway condemnation lawsuits

  Segment E

  Vilas Bhuchar, Dec 23, 09.

  While Grand Parkway, Segment E condemnation lawsuits have been dismissed, this doesn't necessarily mean the project is over.

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  County Commissioners

  Meeting notes - Dec 22, 2009

  Vilas Bhuchar, Dec 23, 09.

  Harris County Commissioners Court dismissed Grand Parkway condemnation lawsuits and deferred action on a Gulf Coast recovery district until January.

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  Harris County abandons maintenance plan, chooses new roads

  $40 million for road jobs

  Jay Blazek Crossley, Dec 21, 09.

  Storey withdraws $40 million proposal to use oll revenues to repair roads. Commissioner Radack claims that new road construction creates jobs. But does it?

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  Senior planner: shortage of local road funds

  Sees federal funds as answer

  Vilas Bhuchar, Dec 09, 09.

  A Portland-based senior planner says that more funds are needed to build local roads crucial to dense, walkable neighborhoods.

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  Study: Non-road users paying for increasing share of road costs

  $70 billion in 2007

  Vilas Bhuchar, Nov 30, 09.

  Study shows that taxes and fees not directly related to highway use and bonds paid for almost half of nationwide road construstion and maintenance in 2007.

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  TTC funds 610/290/I-10 interchange fixes

  Small beginning to large plan

  Jay Blazek Crossley, Nov 23, 09.

  The Texas Transportation Commission allocated $310 million to an initial phase of fixing the congested interchange at 610 / 290 / I-10

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  Harris County withdraws Grand Parkway Seg E funding

  Stimulus funds to be shifted

  Jay Blazek Crossley, Oct 26, 09.

  Commissioners voted on October 27 to request that the Texas Transportation Commission reallocate funds intended for proposed Grand Parkway Segment E.

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