AUSTIN, TX: Eight agency teams are vying for a contract to support what could be the largest public engineering project in Texas history.

The Texas Department of Transportation (TDOT) issued a public-information RFP in mid-June, shortly before asking engineering firms for proposals on developing the first stages

of the so-far-theoretical Trans Texas Project.

A pet project of Gov. Rick Perry (R), Trans Texas calls for developing 4,000 miles of 1,200-foot corridors that would include separate highway lanes for passenger vehicles and ...