Today’s Headlines

• Arbitrary Concept of Compatibility Restricts Transit-Oriented Development in Austin (Austin Monitor)
• …Despite Housing Crisis, Some City Council Members Proudly Champion This Inequitable Exclusion
• Oil Trucks Aren’t Using the Grand Parkway as Expected, So H-GAC Proposes $1B for SH 146 (HPM)
• Slideshow: The Worst HOA Rules in Houston. Our Favorite – No Cars in Driveways
• Three Arrests Made After Kyle Bicyclist Killed in Hit and Run in May (Spectrum)
• Shoal Creek Conservancy Presents Draft Plan of 30 Mile Active Transportation Loop (Austin Monitor)
• Ben Wear Reflects on 15 Years of Covering Transportation in Austin, Predicts VMT Tax by 2033 (Statesman)
• 15 Texans Were Killed in Alcohol-Related Crashes Last July 4 (Houston Public Media)

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Please be safe this July 4. We’re off tomorrow. See you on Friday.