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More lanes are coming to Austin’s highways, but they won’t be free: Audio from KUT
Thursday, April 23, 2015 by Terrence Henry
Travis County and the City of Austin take part in a regular fiscal dance with the State of Texas over who pays the costs of government. Over the next three days, KUT News and the Austin Monitor will look at key examples of that interaction in our series, “The Buck Starts Here.” Today, we take on Austin’s highways.
The audio portion of this report aired on KUT. It’s embedded below:
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