The Dallas-to-Houston bullet train rolled a few inches closer to the starting line Friday with the release of a long-awaited federal study that narrows down several possible routes to a single path through powerline easements. The Draft Environmental Impact Statement, released by the U.S. Department of Transportation, doesn't necessarily endorse the so-called Utility Corridor. The feds still have 60 days to hear from the public before a final decision is made at a date undete

A state transportation panel has dropped a plan to eventually add a pair of toll lanes to Interstate 35 from San Antonio to Austin, removing it and every other proposed tollway from its 10-year, $70 billion outline of 15 major road projects. The stretch of I-35 in Central Texas is annually listed among the most congested in the nation. The 5-0 vote Thursday by the Texas Transportation Commission illustrated how the state’s political system continues to eliminate options to de

Texans love the idea that they are unique, which, of course, in many ways, they are. When it comes to Houston land development and flood control efforts, however, there is much Texas shares with the Dutch: Drain the land, channel the bayous, build huge storm-water infrastructure, get flooded, repeat. In terms of hydrology and geology, there are striking similarities between Rotterdam and Houston, the Dutch Delta and Galveston Bay, and the Dutch and Texas coasts. Moreover, Hou