Please add your article links or textbook passages to the comments section below. You are not allowed to duplicate any article or passage found by yourself or another student. The first source posted will be counted. These articles and quotations will be added to the group concept map.
Sources IV – Transportation
Congestion a constant for Houston commuters
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Congestion-a-constant-for-Houston-commuters-4250433.php
Houston Has a Rail Solution to Traffic
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2019/06/05/houston-has-a-rail-solution-to-traffic/
Think you’re wasting a lot of time in traffic? You’re right
https://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/ODN/HoustonChronicle/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=HHC%2F2019%2F08%2F22&entity=Ar00101&sk=BFAB4B40&mode=text
Houston’s $7 billion solution to gridlock is more highways
https://www.curbed.com/2019/8/5/20754435/houston-traffic-highway-i-45-north-txdot
Are Houston’s Transportation and Urban Revolutions here to Stay?
https://kinder.rice.edu/2016/03/25/are-houstons-transportation-and-urban-revolutions-here-to-stay
Shifting focus from car culture, Houston hires first chief transportation planner
https://communityimpact.com/houston/heights-river-oaks-montrose/government/2020/02/24/shifting-focus-from-car-culture-houston-hires-first-transportation-planner/
Where Electric Cars stand in Houston Right now
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/Electric-vehicles-look-to-make-inroads-in-Houston-15001542.php
Metro boost what improvement Houston might do to the metro
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/transportation/article/metro-bus-red-light-upgrade-BOOST-houston-15093723.php
Overall change to the Metro system
https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/houston-change-entire-bus-system-overnight
Houston attempt on lane managing
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Krol-Managed-lanes-can-reduce-traffic-congestion-12482672.php
Other option to help Houston with improvement in traffic congestion
https://medium.com/@zack.hamburg/how-to-fix-houston-traffic-and-i-mean-really-fix-it-723989450858
Hov improvement for Metro transportation https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/transportation/2020/02/28/362222/to-keep-traffic-moving-metro-is-changing-the-rules-for-its-hov-lanes/
Upcoming high speed railway ideas in the United States.
https://www.afar.com/magazine/several-high-speed-train-routes-are-coming-to-the-united-states
Highspeed rail from Houston to Dallas could break ground in 2020. Finally.
https://communityimpact.com/houston/cy-fair/transportation/2020/01/17/high-speed-rail-could-break-ground-in-2020-opposition-has-doubts/
Texas A&M Transportation Institute Mobility Report 2019 – https://mobility.tamu.edu/umr/report/
More Texans youths are registering to vote, will it reflect in the 2020 primary?
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/02/26/more-young-texans-are-registering-vote-will-they-actually-turn-out/
Voting demographics for the 2018 Texas elections. Majority of voters are over 65.
https://www.texastribune.org/2018/02/23/texas-voter-turnout-electorate-explainer/
Thoughts on the power of the youth vote in Texas.
https://www.tribtalk.org/2019/09/09/texas-wasnt-a-battleground-state-until-young-people-made-it-one/
Houstons opens new bus facility connect Richmond and Rosenberg to the city.
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/transportation/2020/01/29/358757/as-demand-for-public-transit-grows-fort-bend-county-opens-new-bus-facility/
Improvements to Houston’s downtown roads.
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/transportation/2020/01/10/356950/streets-project-will-remake-area-near-houston-city-hall-and-the-hobby-center/
Plans for freeway expansion in Fort Bend and Brazoria county Texas.
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/transportation/2019/12/04/353079/road-project-is-designed-to-lessen-congestion-in-brazoria-and-fort-bend-counties/