Lawmakers to study
TxDOT's advertising
December 3,
2007
Associated Press
AUSTIN -- House
Speaker Tom Craddick
is asking lawmakers
to review the Texas
Department of
Transportation’s
multimillion dollar
ad campaign
promoting toll roads
and the Trans-Texas
Corridor.
Craddick included
a review of the Keep
Texas Moving
campaign on a list
of topics that the
House State Affairs
Committee will study
leading up to the
2009 legislative
session.
Craddick also
asked the
Appropriations
Committee to review
transportation
spending over the
past five years and
study alternatives
for funding future
transportation
needs.
The
transportation
matters were among
the “interim
charges” that
Craddick assigned
last week.
Transportation
officials have
defended the Keep
Texas Moving
campaign as a
response to
lawmakers’ demands
for the agency to
improve its
communication with
the public.