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How Years of Development Policy Fills Houston Living Rooms With Water (Houston Chronicle) Flooding? Don’t Blame Dense Urban Development (Houston Chronicle) With Highway 6 Underwater for 4-6 Weeks, 49,000 Drivers Seek Alternate Routes (ABC13) Turner’s Traffic & Transpo Transition Comm Report Leaked to Anti-Transit Outlet (Houston Press) Harris Co Judge Ed Emmett to Lead Project on Underpass […]

Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Seeking New Executive Director. Please Pick Ian Lockwood Can Dallas Go to Pay-As-You-Go After 2016 Bond Vote With $90M/Yr Road Maintenance Need? (Morning News) Strange San Antonio Commission Decides Whether or Not Neighborhoods Have Hair Salons (Rivard) Should Population of Juarez Count in Whether TXDOT Treats El Paso as a Metro District? (El Paso Inc.) Lack […]

Sprawl Contributing to Houston’s Horrible Flooding Problems (ABC13) Irving Council Pushes Back on Apartments in Verizon Transit-Oriented Campus Plan (DallasNews) Houston, Woodlands Makes Top 20 List of Most Air-Polluted Cities in US (Guardian) TxDOT to Begin Repaving Galveston Seawall Boulevard, Just in Time for Summer Should Dallas 2017 Bond Money Fix Mostly Empty Fair Park, Neighborhoods, […]

Horrible Flooding in Houston: At Least 5 Dead, at Least 700 Water Rescues. 2016 Statewide Traffic Safety Conf June 6-8 Welcomes All Safety Approaches to Very Car-Based Location Statewide Impaired Driving Forum April 27 in Parking Lot Area With Many Alcohol-Serving Businesses Austin Mayor Adler Going to Europe with US DOT Secy Foxx to Study Up for Transit Vision (BizJournals) TXDOT Giving Up […]

Urban Transportation Comm Pushes for Full Funding of Austin’s $150M Bike Master Plan (KXAN) April 26: Join the Bike Austin Rally to Fully Fund Austin’s Bike Master Plan, Urban Trails, and Sidewalks Parsons Wins AGC Construction Management Award for Houston Metro Light Rail Project (AJOT) What It’s Like When >65,000 People Try to Go to Discovery […]

METRO February Ridership Numbers In: Bus Up 9%, Overall Up 14% From Feb 2015 2 Indicted, TxDOT “Publicly Corrupt” in Suspicious Dallas-Area Highway Land Deals (Dallas News) 30-Story Car-Free Apartment Tower Planned for Downtown Austin (Statesman) SA Developer Agrees to Build One Inner-City Home for Every 10 in the Suburbs (Rivard) Bring Your Best Transpo Ideas, […]