After the PBS town hall a couple weeks ago, first one and then another person commented or emailed me referring to the "Rail Anti-Christ". I didn't understand what they were referring to, but figured it couldn't be a coincidence. After inquiring, they explained it to me. The videos of the town hall ...

I woke up this morning to find a bustle in the blogosphere’s hedgerow. It seemed that the Wall Street Journal was leading off today with news that Google had been trying to cut deals with cable and Internet providers to give it a “fast lane” for delivering its services to users. In...

Continuing from last week on the transportation conference: The second-to-last segment on financing priorities and options was moderated by Bill King. It also turned into the feistiest session, with some back-and-forth on the practicality of density and rail (including the Texas T-bone high-speed pl...

By Bennett Roth and Stewart Powell From  the  Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — The Texas Department of Transportation, long viewed as hyperpartisan and arrogant by some members of the state's congressional delegation, has been trying to soften its image by reaching ...

By John Broder From the New York Times WASHINGTON — As angry truckers encircled the Capitol in a horn-blaring caravan and consumers across the country agonized over $60 fill-ups, the issue of high fuel prices flared on the campaign trail on Monday, sharply dividing the two Democratic candidates. S...

"This is the governor's program. If we go in and try to scrap some piece of his program, I think we're going to have hell to pay with our boss, and that's the governor. He was elected by the citizens, not us. We are an extension of what he believes." --Transportation Commission member Ted Houghton o...

"We got the pass-through toll concept from Europe. They do it slightly differently, and we just took it and changed it to put a Texas twist on it. But I would have to say that the rest of it is homegrown. When it started out, we hired a group of professionals, we sent them to Europe to visit all the...

Caught this in Bob Poole's most recent Surface Transportation Innovations newsletter from Reason. Considering that Metro is actively working on converting our HOV lanes to HOT ("high-occupancy toll" lanes - congestion-priced express lanes open to all, but discounted or free for traditional HOV vehic...