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Texas is facing enormous and rapidly increasing transportation needs, with no
quick and easy solutions to meet them. Increases in population, vehicles and
travel in the state have placed unprecedented demands on an under-invested
system.
Texas must build upon the momentum created by our legislative successes in the
“Safe, Accountable, Flexible and Efficient Transportation Equity Act - A Legacy
for Users” (SAFETEA-LU)
in order to ensure the future reliability of our state’s transportation
infrastructure.
TxDOT’s 2007 federal objectives primarily center on highway funding and
improving intermodal mobility, such as improved funding flexibility,
transportation infrastructure investment, Private Activity Bond refinement,
tolling authority expansion, design-build contracting, public transportation,
rail relocation and improvement, and international trade.
For more information about these objectives, read the Texas Transportation Commission's report to
the 110th Congress, “Forward
Momentum" [pdf, 24 pages, 350kb].
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