Reporter Yamil Berard scoured through thousands of pages of court records, documents from the National Transportation Safety Board, and videos of that tragic day in February 2021 when 130 cars, trucks and semis piled up along a stretch of the North Tarrant Express. Early morning commuters, unaware of the black ice beneath them, crashed one after another along two lanes bound by concrete barriers on both sides. The horrific scene spanned the length of three football fields.
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It’s Texas, a one party state, so there’s really nobody else to blame.
That said… Back in September, the governing body in Harris County, Texas—the Commissioners Court—voted 3-2 to take over the respected Harris County Toll Road Authority (HCTRA). They created a government corporation that will divert toll revenues to things like flood control and help to pay for deepening the Houston Ship Channel.
I don’t even blame Dems for taking this approach in this particular instance. The Bush/Abbott state government has severely limited how cities can raise revenue and toll roads begetting more toll roads as turned the city into an absolute morass of concrete when so many other public projects go underfunded.
So it’s less bike fail and more success kid, in this instance.