Additional tweets from Kimble:

"There’s no question that public transportation and mass transit are important," Canales says. "They work in some areas but not other areas. The reality is, where we are in Texas, highway growth and road building is our most cost effective way to get Texans where they're going."

re: funding for mass transit. The people driving on the roads paid to build the roads and they paid to maintain the roads, Nichols says. When you get in mass transit, it is a heavily subsidized form of transportation (This is false, roads are heavily subsidized by general funds)

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Related story: https://www.kxan.com/in-depth-insight/texas-tribune-qa-dallas-houston-bullet-train-developer-faces-a-leadership-exodus-as-land-acquisition-slows/

Photo credit: Megan Kimble on twitter. Kimble is former editor of the Texas Observer and her stories have appeared in Texas Monthly, Citylab and the new York Times. She is writing a book on highways for Crown Publishing