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As TxDOT Travel Information Centers statewide gear up to host the tourists of summer’s peak-travel season, the agency is also extending its hospitality by completing Austin’s largest-ever accommodation for its most famous visitors: bats.

To really get a feel of what the open road is like in an electric vehicle, you need a road trip. Michael Chamberlain, TxDOT’s data management section director, decided to do just that.

The telltale red-and-blue lights in a driver’s rearview mirror can inspire shame and guilt. But those feelings don’t come close to the guilt speeding drivers feel after killing or injuring someone – or the pain a family feels when someone dies in a crash.

Inspiring Texans and tourists alike with tips on cultural festivals or where to find the best piece of pie on a country road for a half-century, Texas Highways is turning 50 this year and celebrating the occasion with a new look in the July/Aug issue.

To help keep a thriving Texas economy moving, TxDOT is drafting a record-breaking 10-year transportation plan, and the public is invited to weigh in on potential projects in communities across the state.

Throughout severe weather, heavy rain and flooding over the past several weeks, TxDOT crews were out in force helping drivers stay safe before and after the storms.

In the time it takes to read this sentence, Texans can click their seat belt and save themselves from an early grave — and save their loved ones from the sorrow of preventable loss.

A congested triangle of highway interchanges is becoming a distant memory after a massive overhaul of the corridors wraps up in Irving.