TxDOT’s big accident
By Trent Seibert | Friday, August 29th, 2008
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Lots of folks are buzzing about the audit released yesterday about the $1.1 billion error by the Texas Department of Transportation. Including us here and here. The error means some road projects are getting scaled back. Others are being postponed.
Essentially, the TxDOT bookkeepers counted bond proceeds at TxDOT twice. How did it happen? The Houston Chronicle’s Janet Elliott explains it in a story in today’s editons: It happened because of poor communication, according to the report. Here’s the version from the Austin American-Statesman.
It’s likely this latest development won’t do much to help the cause of legislators’ efforts to re-tool how highways and roads are paid for by the state.
Bloggers and citizen-journalists have been making their voices heard recently about the Republican-led proposal.
Here’s McBlogger’s take on the issue.
Here’s the Muckraker, highlighting the Texas Monthly’s take.
And the view from Off the Kuff.
