Each year in February, each of the Texas Engineering Societies honors an Engineer of the Year and a Young Engineer of the Year. The awards are presented to engineers who have made outstanding contributions to the engineering profession, the public welfare and human kind. This year, CTC member Ian Hlavacek was recognized by the Institute [...]
Harris County and the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) continue to press on in their effort to secure federal stimulus dollars to help fund construction of the controversial Grand Parkway. However, in today’s Houston Chronicle, the editorial staff weigh in against directing tax-funded stimulus dollars to construction of new toll roads: Traffic alert: There’s a [...]
On Tuesday, CTC board members and leaders of six grassroots organizations from across the state converged in Austin with a shared message: TxDOT is racing to commit $1.7 billion of our stimulus dollars with little or no input from the public or our state legislators. We need TxDOT to slow down, listen to the public’s [...]
