Texas DOT Changes Course, Will Assess Highway Project's Impacts on Threatened Salamanders, Birds

The Center for Biological Diversity ^ | June 21, 2016 | Jenny Loda and Kelly Davis

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Environ-MENTAL-ism . . .

[showme_the_Glory]

Austinism

[Covenantor]

ping

[Steely Tom]

Have they made sure the highway won’t interfere with cockroach migration routes?

[Arkansas Toothpick]

That is typical Austin road politics. It is THE reason why Austin is a traffic nightmare.

[SandRat]

Damn rhe Center for Biological Diversity!

[TigersEye]

Don’t ever threaten Salamander.

[Snickering Hound]

Too bad, I love those Austin toll roads...

[Jane Long]

Enviroweenies.....Keeping Austin Weird, and undrivable, for decades.

[Sequoyah101]

Y’all say what you want to about Texas and how freedom loving it is and all that but there are a whole bunch of fruitloops in Houston, Dallas, Fort Worthless, Salmontonio and Austin who have a liberal hold on a lot of stuff here.

Good place to be but it ain’t all that great and it ain’t all that secure in its conservatism.

Oklahoma, my home state for all its red has some faults too. This seizure card fiasco is an embarassment of monumental proportions. Laying off teachers, piling class rooms full of kids and all the while instituting new sports programs is another stupidity of more feather bedding.

Everything is relative.

If you are inclined to bash this opinion be my guest. You are entitled to your views just as I am to mine.

[Sequoyah101]

By the way, there had to be an unreasonable number of kids killed on Texas 6 between Navasota and College Station before they finally over came the protectors of toads or lizards or whatever the hell it was that held up making a proper road up there.

Fools are fools whereever you enocunter them.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I know of one road project — in the San Antonio area, I believe — that was held up due to construction workers finding an endangered ground-dwelling spider living in the project’s footprint.

[Enchante]

Texas liberals seem to be some of the most obnoxious and rabid around, too

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I don’t live in Texas, so I’m happy to hear from somebody who does. I know Austin is certifiable. And the other places: big cities, ‘nuff said.

[Delta 21]

Wondering if such an impact study was considered on the indigenous inhabitants of the area before opening a refugee depository just outside Amarillo?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Texans vs. Muslims.

[Salamander]

Salamander gots teef.

:D

[Salamander]

I’m touched...

(Take that any way you like)

;)

[Salamander]

Is that actually the speed limit!?!

[LoneStarGI]

That’s Texas Toll Highway 130 east of Austin, and yes that is the posted speed limit, the highest in the nation. It’s a blast to drive on. Some of us call it the ‘Austin Autobahn’.