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State releases list of deficient bridges
Responding to Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst’s request for a complete inventory of “structurally deficient” bridges, the Texas Department of Transportation on Thursday released a list of 2,024 such Texas bridges, including 36 in the three-county Austin area.
The agency at the same time released a broadside, sending Dewhurst a five-page [...]

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Can you believe this?
MySA.com: Metro | State

Former city planning director Dave Pasley, a critic of what he says has been haphazard development of San Antonio’s suburbs, says a proposal to spend $12.6 million to improve Wurzbach Parkway intersections leaves him slack-jawed.
The cross-town parkway has been on the books for decades and isn’t finished. And the [...]

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