TxDoT

Harold Cook writing from the blog “Letters from Texas” posts a well formulated argument against the “conservatism” of the Texas Department of Transportation. He argues that the Department of Transportation are proceeding with their plans to turn what used to be perfectly serviceable paved state highways into gravel roads. He then assigns blame to the heavy oilpath trucks which are “ruining” the roads in areas where the oil business is booming. He provides a speculation that these trucks will likely avoid these gravel roads and take alternative routes with faster speed limits. What Cook is forgetting is that the Texas Department of Transportation assigns the truckers specific routes and they will have a difficult time getting out of the assigned routes which will probably force them to take the slow speed gravel roads. My problem with Cook’s article is his anti-republican attitude seems to take control and skew the issue from the conservative nature of TxDoT to the “more important” lowering of speed limits and the finger pointing of the Obama-bashing republicans. Aside from the obvious democratic bias in the article, Cook brings up great points concerning the state of Texas roads and the supposed neglect of the Department of Transportation in fixing the damaged roads. Cook’s article is insightful, laced with humor, a tad bit biased, but is definitely worth the read.