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City of Austin Hosting Workshop Oct. 16 for Businesses Affected by Corridor Work (Community Impact) Scooters Are a Hit, but Council Member Alter Wonders If They’re Making Us Fatter (Austin Met) Project Connect: Cap Metro insists everything is on the table (Austin Monitor) Car Driver Hits Austin Police Officer Who Was Directing Traffic Near ACL […]

Are Electric Scooters Here to Stay? Razor Thinks So, and So Does Dallas City Hall (Morning News) Women’s Transportation Seminar Austin – Wed, Oct 17 Luncheon: Austin Transpo Dept Director Rob Spillar Vote No on Prop J Campaign Launches to Oppose Exclusionary Zoning Referendum in Austin You Can Comment on Austin’s South Lamar Boulevard Corridor […]

Out of Control: In Houston’s traffic carnage, design makes a difference (Houston Chronicle) A Work Zone crash. A Houston Husband and Two Children Dead. A Mother and Wife Asks: ‘Why?’ (Houston Chron) Houston Region’s Leaders Move Slowly on Design-Driven Changes to Prevent Roadway Crashes (Houston Chron) Dallas Embracing Scooters with More than 450,000 Trips in Under […]

Houston Department of Transformation Reimagining Intersection at Hogan and Cochran, This Saturday …Actual Houston Planning Department Tweets About It ‘Prop J’ Initiative On Development Exposes Rift Among Austin Environmentalists (KUT) Austin’s Proposed Prop J is Bad News for Climate Change (Environment America) Slower Speeds, Safety Education: Austin Proposes New Rules for Rentable Scooters, Bikes (BizJournals) […]

Road Deaths Drop in Texas, Though State Tops List (Houston Chron) Driverless Buses with Dedicated Lanes: How Capital Metro Sees Austin’s Public Transit Future (BizJournals) New Cap Metro CEO wants Austin to be guinea pig for autonomous rapid transit (KLBJ) Hop on: How public transit could shape the future of Austin’s suburbs (Community Impact) Irving […]

Mode-dogmatists Rebrand Their Anti-Autonomous Transit Effort as “Austin Coalition for Transit” (Austin Chron) …Video: They Came Out in Force and Asked Weird Questions for Last Half Hour of this Open House The road ahead for scooters? City weighs safety concerns, new rules (Statesman) Teams Promoting Safe Driving, er, Scooting, Headed to Downtown Austin (Statesman) …Here […]