A serious question if you care to give your thoughts.
What would you propose that Texas do to to begin a long range plan to improve and provide the necessary transportation facilities for say the next 50 years?
“What would you propose that Texas do to to begin a long range plan to improve and provide the necessary transportation facilities for say the next 50 years?”
1) Eliminate the gas tax diversion to ‘education’.
2) Increase the gas tax by 5 cents per gallon, each year, over the next 5 (or more) years. By the end of 5 years, we’ll be caught up to where we were in the early 1990s, where we were expanding FREEWAYS...instead of handing over highways to foreign entities.
3) SERIOUSLY increase Park and Ride facilities. They’ve been gutted in our STUPID attempt to build rail here in Houston. Those systems work GREAT, with buses picking up people every 5 minutes (during rush hour) and going to where people ACTUALLY WORK...instead of where the rail lines lead them.
Bottom line - we should make transportation as CHEAP as possible here in Texas, rather than use it as a ‘revenue engine’ (to borrow the term from government people) for other projects. Getting things and people moved EFFICIENTLY should be the priority...but if people have to pay well over 20 cents per mile (in addition to vehicle and fuel costs) just to move around, then we might as well break up our state.