4 Transportation Reform Ideas via Empower Texas

Empower Texas has a litany of transportation reform ideas:

• Before more funds, restrict the impact of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO) to undermine sound policy
  • The problems with MPOs:
    • MPOs are federally mandated
    • Federal government is allowed to indirectly control transportation
    • They are composed of “bureaucrats from transit agencies, toll authorities and TxDOT”
    • MPOs “can hold TxDOT funds hostage”
• Restrict TXDOT projects that include partnerships with MPOs
• Statutorily remove the authority the state grants to MPOs and COGs
• Stop COGs and MPOs from expanding their reach to include economic development

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