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Vision Zero Fail: Austin PD Wants to Ban People From Lingering By Busy Roads

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 26, 2016 | No Comments

The Austin Police Department doesn’t seem to understand what Vision Zero is about. Instead of making roads safer by enforcing pedestrians’ right of way or ticketing speeders, police are proposing to ban people from standing by dangerous, high-speed roads. Austin police want to make it illegal to hang out on certain streets. Photo: Kellie CA via Flickr As if [...]

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Austin: The Most Bike-Friendly City in Texas

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Feb 3, 2016 | No Comments

I was in Austin a few months ago for the NACTO Designing Cities Conference. While in town I was able to put together this look at what the city is doing to improve bicycling, including the dazzling 3rd Street curb-protected bikeway. Also captured on camera: many bike paths along the Pedernales River, car-free nights on 6th street, and the ridiculously long [...]

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Check Out Austin’s New Polka-Dotted Intersection Neckdowns

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 1, 2016 | No Comments

This new painted polka-dot intersection neckdown was design to make a dangerous intersection safer and more comfortable for pedestrians. Photo: Austin Mobility Safer streets for pedestrians don’t have to be expensive, or boring, for that matter. That’s the lesson from Austin’s new polka-dotted intersection neckdowns. In an effort to get drivers to slow down and give extra [...]

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Highway Boondoggles: Texas State Highway 45 Southwest

By Jeff Inglis | Jan 21, 2016 | No Comments

The water pollution control plans for SH 45 allow for oil, grease, and other pollutants resulting from construction and use of the highway to enter the area’s surface water and groundwater. Image: TxDOT In a new report, Highway Boondoggles 2 (the original came out in 2014), U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group teamed up to profile the most [...]

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CITY VS. SPRAWL: A Study in Impervious Cover

By Carrie Gammell | Dec 16, 2015 | No Comments

During the final Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) reading, Council Members Ora Houston (D-1), Ann Kitchen (D-5), and Leslie Pool (D-7), led by Kathie Tovo (D-9), cited impervious cover and the supposed resultant flooding as demonstrative reasons why we should not add housing in Austin’s urban core. The same argument has been used by neighborhood NIMBYs to decry new […]

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Brutal Jaywalking Arrest in Austin Caught on Video

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 9, 2015 | No Comments

Austin police were captured on video beating a group of “jaywalkers” into submission late last Wednesday in an incident that reeks of racial profiling. The arrest was recorded and shared on Facebook by Rolando Ramiro. He told the website Photography is Not a Crime that he and a group of friends were trying to cross a street that had been barricaded and [...]

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