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Vote for Park Funding in Houston’s First Baby Step Toward Participatory Budgeting (January Advisors) TTI Seems to Be Working for BMW to Figure Out How We Can Keep Seniors Driving in Future (TTI) Hines to Turn Old Chronicle Building in Center of Downtown Into Parking Lot (Houston Chron) Drunk Driver Gets 13 Years in Jail for Killing Mom, […]

AT&T Study Finds More Drivers Text in States Without Ban, Including Texas (Chron) SA Officials Ask Business to Promote Carpools, Walking, Biking Due to Air Quality Violation (SABJ) Houston’s Mean Streets: Road Design Is Killing People (Houston Chronicle) Rare, Pedestrian-Triggered Traffic Signal Comes to Heights Hike & Bike Trail (Chron) Massive Mixed-Use Project Could Reclaim Street for Ped Use Along Museum-District […]

VeloPaso Letter Writing Campaign Asks City to Keep Promise to Spend 0.2% of Budget on Bike Lanes Get Me, Dallas Based Ride-Hailing App, Moving Into Galveston After Uber Left (Houston Chron) Successful Downtown Walkable Urbanism Annoying for Some Driving to Astros Games (Houston Chron) Coastal Seawall Proposal to Induce Demand for Housing in Hurricane Vulnerable Areas (Tribune) Hit-and-Run Driver Kills 27-Year-Old Jeren “Shawn” Green […]

Turner Transition Teams Call for Multimodal Transpo Plan & Transit Vision Linked With Land Use County Officials Hope Grand Parkway Will Gentrify Low Education East Montgomery Co (Chron) Montgomery Co Resident: Grand Parkway Not Worth the Strain It’ll Put on the Community (Chron) NCAA Final Four Ridership a Slam Dunk for METRO (Houston Chronicle) Consultant Files Bogus Complaint About […]

Houston Planning Dept Releases 2015 Complete Streets & Transportation Plan Annual Report You Have 5 More Days to Comment on the Draft Houston Bike Plan Will TTI’s 2016 Traffic Safety Conference Include Vision Zero & Current Thought Leadership? Final Day to Give Input on SA Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan for Smart, Sustainable Growth Interior Dept Selects […]

Driver Hits and Kills 12-Year-Old San Antonio Girl Walking to School (KSAT) SE Houston Residents Want Safe Intersection After 67-Year-Old Grandmother’s Preventable Death (KHOU) Austin Council Mobility Committee Asks Staff to Study Transit Priority Policy to Speed Up Bus (Monitor) Austin South Central Waterfront Plan Is Beautiful: Dense Urbanism + Nature (Statesman) Thorough Critique of Joel Kotkin’s “Dog Whistle to […]