Texas

The mayor of Austin, Texas, wants his city to consider funding a passenger rail system to traverse the city -- a more extensive system than the commuter rail line currently being built in the Austin area.

James Howard Kunstler attends the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO) and finds downtown Houston a "ghastly" environment that shows that even without zoning a city can achieve "miserable" results.

Despite initial studies showing too hefty a price tag, Houston is now on its way to dramatically expanding its light rail transit system.

In Houston, the only major U.S. city with no zoning laws, plans to construct a high-rise condo complex in an affluent neighborhood have residents outraged.

City officials in Texas Border towns are blocking federal officials from coming into their towns to build walls along the U.S.-Mexico border.

In six states, test runs will assess public attitudes and acceptance of road taxation systems that ditch gas taxes and charge drivers based on how many miles they drive.

A proposal to sell off 9,000 acres of Texas land set aside in a conservation fund has many worried about a loss of public land. But proponents say a private owner would expand, not limit, public access to the land.

The nation's largest city without public transit is beginning to lean towards creating a bus system.

The U.S. Senate recently approved a bill that prohibits the state of Texas from converting any of its existing highways into toll roads for at least one year.

Uncertainty about funding new tracks has created a delay in the development of a commuter rail system in the Austin-San Antonio region.

A roller coaster has opened up right next door to a family's summer home in the Houston suburb of Kemah -- a town with no zoning ordinance.

A U.S. Senator from Texas has vowed to oppose a state-supported plan to convert existing interstate highways into tollraods.

Transit officials in Texas are looking to convince Congress to let the state buy back sections of interstate highway for conversion into revenue-generating toll roads.

In the communities on the Texas side of the U.S.-Mexico border, development is an incremental process. But with an influx of public services and infrastructure, the humble villages are blossoming.

Billions have been invested in redeveloping Houston's downtown. Now, civic boosters are looking to revive a waterfront section of the city by creating active parkspace and increasing preservation efforts for a nearby historic building.

Builders' groups and developers are upset over a proposal in Houston that would require them to include park space in any developments of 100 units or more. They say the requirement will stifle development.

City officials have approved a $3.7 million half-infrastructure, half-preservation project to replace water and sewer lines beneath Houston streets that were paved with bricks by freed slaves after the Civil War.

City officials moved to protect 33 acres of the Old Sixth Ward -- a historic mark for the city in its own right.

The Onion reports on the tragic loss of two cities in a senseless pileup.

Deciding where bus routes should go isn't an easy job.