Texas is ready for the Strong Towns conversation. We've profiled community leaders doing amazing work there, and we've invited many of them to present at #StrongTownsNTX, our North Texas regional gathering in Plano. The gathering just a few days away—it’s all going down on October 4th and 5th—and we’d love to see you there! Tickets are still available.﻿

Texas is not only ready for the Strong Towns conversation. Texas needs the Strong Towns conversation. The other day, we ran an op-ed in D Magazine about Dallas's infrastructure shortfall.

Around the same time, Dallas News published this story about suburban Collin County's plans to expand its road network over the coming decades. A PAC called Collin County on the Move is supporting a $750 million bond measure to expand roads in Collin County. $600 million of it would go to new, untolled freeways. Here's what Michael Morris, transportation director for the North Central Texas Council of Governments, has to say about it: this bond money "will get us started."

"It's not the solution," he said. "It's the start."

Morris calls it “the start," because here's how much Collin County officials say they need for roads over the next three to four decades: $12.6 billion.

You want the problem with North Texas in a few numbers? Let's go.