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Walkable DFW & Uptown Dallas Want to Turn McKinney & Cole Into Two-Way Streets (Morning News) Driver Fails to Yield, Kills Motorcyclist William Bristol at Intersection Built for Speed (Morning News) How Much of SA 2017 Bond Will Improve Urban Core vs. More Expensive Sprawl Options? (Rivard) Will Rural Texas Finally See Urbanists as Allies, Unlike “Suburbatarians”? (Make West Texas Great Again) McKinney Family Tries to Defend […]

Midtown Houston Grocery Store Wants to Be More Urban, Ped Friendly (Houston Chron) Someone Crashed a Box Truck Into a Train Carrying Up to 200 People, 2 Hospitalized (Houston Chron) City Audit Says Austin Isn’t Coordinating Transportation Policy Effectively (BizJournals) …And City Failed to Use Crash Data to Improve Safety (KXAN) Music Venue Uses Outdoor Stage to Skirt Houston Parking Requirements (Houston Chron) Austin Neighbors […]

Uber Threatens to Leave Houston Over Fingerprinting & Requirements Agreed to in 2014 (Houston Chron) Mayor Turner Won’t Compromise Public Safety — Giving Threats Isn’t How We Do It Here (Periscope) Paving Our Prairies With Sprawl Roads Contributes to Flooding (Houston Chron) May Is National Bike Month. May 15 Is Bike to Work Day. Houston. Austin. DFW. El Paso. Denton. […]

TxDOT‘s Conceptual Aerial Video of Austin’s I-35 Capped With Parks Austin Launches “Affordable Parking” for Downtown Workers & Raises Street Meter Rates (Monitor) Barricades & Personnel to Block Dangerous Underpasses During Flooding Events (Chron) More Houstonians Want to Live by Parks and Trails Than Ever Before (HBJ) Oak Forest Area Revives Petition for 34th Street Quiet […]

Drunk Driver Kills UH Student Mark Tartaglia Walking on Sidewalk (Houston Chron) 1st Mtg of Reconstituted H-GAC Regional Safety Council Is Today. Vision Zero Houston Region Now! ~1 Million More People Say They Use Hike/Bike Trails Monthly in Harris Co Than in 2012 (Houstonia) AllTransit Score Indicates That Dallas Is Better Than Houston (D Magazine) CNU-CTX Cafe Urban With COA’s Alan Holt on […]

Disaster by Design: Why Houston Shouldn’t Be Surprised When Floodplains Flood (Chron) Time for City and County to Get More Strict With Watershed Planning & Development (Chron) BikeAustin: Bike Master Plan a Way to Address Equity, Congestion With 2016 Bond (Monitor) Dallas Considers Smaller 2017 Bond Package, Transition to Pay-As-You-Go Model (Dallas News) Austin MetroRail Kiosks Will […]