Transportation Summit this week
Traffic expert from far away
Aug. 07, 2006
By Gordon Dickson
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Copyright 2006
Irving's Transportation Summit began nine years ago as a forum for local officials to brainstorm about congestion.
Each year, it has attracted speakers from farther away -- South Texas, then Washington and now other countries.
This year's summit, set for Tuesday through Friday, will feature exotic topics:
How a proposed expansion of the Panama Canal could affect freight in Texas.
The future of international trade, as forecast by Chinese scholars.
Lessons learned from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, in the eyes of emergency-preparedness experts.
There are plenty of speakers on the slate, including: U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas; U.S. Reps. James Oberstar, D-Minn., and John Mica, R-Fla.; and Thomas Madison Jr., New York transportation commissioner.
Registration is required.
www.transportationsummit.com
Googling down the corridor
Used to be that news stories about the Trans-Texas Corridor required lots of explaining. Now, the proposed $184 billion toll-road network is conceptually embedded in our World Wide psyche.
For giggles last week, Your Commute Googled "Trans-Texas Corridor," and links to a whopping 202,000 Web sites popped up.
Add the phrase land grab to the search, and you still get 9,740 hits. Replace that with traffic relief, and it's 14,200 hits.
Toll roads in everybody's future
Think toll roads are an inevitable part of just about everyone's future? It appears they are.
Thirty-one states and the District of Columbia are now planning toll roads, according to the Government Accountability Office, Congress' investigative arm.
Keeping tabs on local bigwigs
What are the Metroplex bigwigs doing to reduce traffic congestion and air pollution and so on?
Find out by attending a North Central Texas Council of Governments informational meeting at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 15 at the Intermodal Transportation Center, Ninth and Jones streets in Fort Worth.
© 2006 Fort Worth Star-Telegram: www.dfw.com
Aug. 07, 2006
By Gordon Dickson
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Copyright 2006
Irving's Transportation Summit began nine years ago as a forum for local officials to brainstorm about congestion.
Each year, it has attracted speakers from farther away -- South Texas, then Washington and now other countries.
This year's summit, set for Tuesday through Friday, will feature exotic topics:
How a proposed expansion of the Panama Canal could affect freight in Texas.
The future of international trade, as forecast by Chinese scholars.
Lessons learned from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, in the eyes of emergency-preparedness experts.
There are plenty of speakers on the slate, including: U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas; U.S. Reps. James Oberstar, D-Minn., and John Mica, R-Fla.; and Thomas Madison Jr., New York transportation commissioner.
Registration is required.
www.transportationsummit.com
Googling down the corridor
Used to be that news stories about the Trans-Texas Corridor required lots of explaining. Now, the proposed $184 billion toll-road network is conceptually embedded in our World Wide psyche.
For giggles last week, Your Commute Googled "Trans-Texas Corridor," and links to a whopping 202,000 Web sites popped up.
Add the phrase land grab to the search, and you still get 9,740 hits. Replace that with traffic relief, and it's 14,200 hits.
Toll roads in everybody's future
Think toll roads are an inevitable part of just about everyone's future? It appears they are.
Thirty-one states and the District of Columbia are now planning toll roads, according to the Government Accountability Office, Congress' investigative arm.
Keeping tabs on local bigwigs
What are the Metroplex bigwigs doing to reduce traffic congestion and air pollution and so on?
Find out by attending a North Central Texas Council of Governments informational meeting at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 15 at the Intermodal Transportation Center, Ninth and Jones streets in Fort Worth.
© 2006 Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
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