A $5 billion children's hospital campus rising in Dallas, a $5 billion expansion of Austin's airport, the $4.5 billion lowering of I-35 through central Austin, a $4 billion new Terminal F at DFW, and ship channels being widened and deepened at Houston and the Sabine-Neches headline Texas's public pipeline.
*How to read the total: the sum of the published figures in the list below. Bases differ by project — most are total cost estimates, some are federal grants, program totals, or construction contracts as awarded. Each project's expanded view labels its own basis. We add them up with the labels showing rather than pretend they're all the same kind of number.
Hover a pin for the project snapshot. Pin numbers match the project list below. Locations are approximate (nearest city or corridor midpoint) on a schematic state outline.
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18 major public projects: 5 in the Houston area, 4 in Austin, 3 in Dallas–Fort Worth, 3 in Bryan–College Station, 2 in San Antonio and one in Waco. The listed figures sum to ≈$31.5B. This is a majors list in the Virginia/West Virginia sense: TxDOT alone programmes over $100B statewide, so dozens of funded $10M–$300M district projects are acknowledged here rather than itemised — the floor was not raised, and no project below it is listed.
News-flagged sources: ten rows rest on news or trade-press reporting of official figures, flagged 'news-flagged' in the data — I-35 Capital Express Central, both NHHIP Segment 3 rows, Grand Parkway B-1, Houston Ship Channel Project 11, Texas A&M–Fort Worth, the Aplin Center, the UT Austin Medical Center, ELEVATE/SAT and the VIA Green Line. Each record names the underlying official source (TxDOT, the Texas Transportation Commission, USACE, the airport and university systems). The Sabine-Neches record discloses three divergent published totals ($1.2B / $1.4B / $1.9B) and uses the non-federal sponsor's own figure.
Funded segments only: the North Houston Highway Improvement Project is listed as its two funded Segment 3 pieces ($695.5M building; $2.14B in procurement). Segments 1 and 2 are deliberately NOT listed: TxDOT's own pages state their final design has not commenced for lack of funding, so the corridor's often-quoted $13B whole-project figure — which spans those unfunded segments — is not used anywhere in the tally.
Deliberately excluded: private projects of any size (Tesla, Samsung, SpaceX, data centres) — out of scope by rule; the new Harbor Bridge in Corpus Christi ($1.3B — opened June 28, 2025, a prior-year completion) and the Corpus Christi Ship Channel Improvement Project ($625M — completed June 2025); DART's Silver Line ($2.1B — opened October 25, 2025, a prior-year completion); Austin Light Rail Phase 1 (Project Connect) — the FTA has rated and recommended it, but no full funding grant agreement has been awarded and roughly half its published $7.1B–$8.2B cost remains unawarded federal funding, so it fails the funded rule and is named here rather than listed; Houston METRO's University Corridor BRT (shelved by METRO on affordability grounds — a suspended-by-owner proposal without a funded construction programme); and the Texas Coastal Project ('Ike Dike') — in federally funded pre-construction engineering and design only, with no construction funding or published construction programme retrieved.
Softest record: the UT Austin Medical Center — counted at the $1B first phase the UT System regents funded in August 2026, not the $5B full programme (revised up from $2.9B), with 2026 reporting indicating the original Erwin Center site was set aside; re-verify scope and site on the next pass. Next softest: Texas A&M–Fort Worth's Research & Innovation Building A ($260M project figure at groundbreaking; regents' package reporting ran to about $300M).