Houston

The recipe for success: Give transit agencies the resources to make systemwide improvements, don't just focus on one line at a time.

The recovery effort needs to ensure that Houston will be better prepared for future extreme weather events.

While any city would be overwhelmed by so much rain in so little time, land use in the Houston region has made a difficult situation worse.

Ah, the best paid plans. As Texas DOT considers tearing down the Pierce Elevated Freeway on the east side of downtown Houston, it's instructive to look back at what people were thinking when they made this eyesore.

There's a lot riding on Texas DOT's $7 billion plan for downtown Houston freeways.

In 2014, 227 people were killed in traffic collisions in Houston. Per capita, that means the city's streets are more than three times as deadly as New York City's.

Law enforcement officers warned there would likely be an uptick in collisions when Houston debated banning red light cameras in the early part of the decade. Turns out they were absolutely right.

Welcome to the dog days of summer! Before skipping town, Congress passed a transportation funding patch so they wouldn't have to deal with the real problem of the unsustainable way our nation builds and pays for infrastructure. I give the briefest possible rundown of where we are now before Jeff and I launch into discussions about the issues of the day: zoning and ride-share.