This story is the first part in a four-part series on the growth of toll roads and lanes around the state. To view Part 2, a story looking at why Texas finds itself resorting to tolling so often ...

In 1913, Texas passed a law explicitly giving private companies powers to build roads wherever they saw fit. It wasn't until 1991, almost as an aside, that Texas lawmakers repealed what they ...

North Texas' toll-road future. That money would provide a side benefit -- billions to build out the region's rail transit network, another way to take pressure off of roadways.

KXAN discovered some of TxDOT’s toll maps are five years out-of-date and why a mobile payment app that was in the works in 2018 was quietly abandoned.

Texas joins the majority of states collecting revenue streams, in part, through toll roads. The Lone Star State's toll system dates back to the early 1950s, said Brianne Glover, a research ...

Harris County commissioners agreed Tuesday to pay investment banks nearly $1 million to study ways to privatize the toll road system or make it more financially sound if it remains publicly owned ...

While they represent the easiest way to new road construction in Texas — state legislators aren't going to raise the gas tax to provide more funds for transportation — toll roads are unpopular ...