Topic – Transportation
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TPC Interviews
What does the TPC do?
Over the summer, Houston Tomorrow interviewed members of the H-GAC Transportation Policy Council to learn more about the council's role in shaping the region.
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Livable Houston Initiative - Uri Avin on Regional Planning for Sustainability
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Transit bill breezes through Senate, while House debates spur outrage
To allow funds for transit
Despite continued struggles from their colleagues in the House, the Senate Banking Committee has passed their two-year transit bill with unanimous support.
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Des Moines increasing local taxes for transit
To fund more service
Des Moines-area property owners could see a 15-cent increase in the tax levy for mass transit after commissioners overseeing the DART OK’d a budget increase.
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Transportation Secretary blasts proposed bill
"Most partisan ever seen"
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Thursday the House GOP’s highway spending plan is “the worst transportation bill” he’s seen in decades.
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Unincorporated Harris in a bind it thought COH would fix
County/MUDs can't fix streets
Unincorporated areas of Harris County that were developed expecting City of Houston to annex them have no funding to maintain neighborhood streets.
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Major differences between House, Senate transpo bills
Still much to work on
With major differences existing between House and Senate versions, Congress still has ample work to do before a long-term surface transportation bill is signed
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