Texas Sprawl Builders Funneled Taxpayer $ to Highway That Enriched Them

If the U.S. had a national transportation policy, this story of corruption and waste never would have happened.
With help from real estate interests, Houston has built the country's fourth-largest city around the automobile. Photo: Michael Stravato/AP
But an enduring feature of the current policy predicament is that once federal funding is in the hands of state [...]

Source: http://dc.streetsblog.org/2011/11/02/texas-sprawl-builders-funneled-taxpayer-to-highway-that-enriched-them/

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