Not to mention that more highways carrying more vehicles at legal speed limits as high as 80 mph, which really means some drivers traveling at rates up to 100 mph, will result in even more fatalities. It ignores climate change, global warming, the impact of vehicle emissions from gas-guzzling trucks and SUVs and the need to move to electric vehicles and multimodal transit solutions. Judging the plan by 2022 standards, it’s a scary rejection of science and the world we are leaving for our children and their children.
Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Don’t expect it to make your commute to other Texas cities any easier. The state’s 10-year plan carries a huge price tag, but it can be reduced to one simple sentence: Expand urban highways to accommodate more vehicles. In Texas, traffic fatalities come primarily from speeding, and secondarily from drivers and passengers not wearing seatbelts, according to TxDOT. That makes a mockery of the state agency’s #EndTheStreakTX campaign, a public relations effort designed to encourage driver safety and responsibility. More than 4,480 people were killed on Texas roads and highways in 2021, a 15% increase year-over-year and more than any other state, according to the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). If you want to peer into the future of Texas transportation one decade from now, you might do it best sitting behind the wheel of your vehicle, imagining how it will feel to burn a $7 gallon of gas while waiting for choked traffic between San Antonio and Austin to inch forward on a partially widened I-35.
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