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Pictures From Today’s Safe Streets March In Houston (Gail DeLaughter) Fundraising Goal Met For Rainbow Crosswalk In San Antonio (Rivard) Reddit AMA from 11am-1pm Today With City of Austin Public Works Department Crashes Involving Motorcycles Continue At Steady Pace Despite Safety Campaigns (Express-News) Austin Driver Crashes Truck Into Sleeping Teenager’s Room, Charged With DWI (Statesman) […]

Tomorrow, Houston: Demonstration for Safe Streets Now In Remembrance Of Polly Koch TXDOT Spending $135m On Five Overpasses To Eliminate All Stops From Houston To Austin (Statesman) No End In Sight For DFW Highway Expansions: $1.6B for LBJ East, $24B In TXDOT “Needs” Remains (Morning News) Different $1.6B Fails To Solve Congestion On Dallas’ I-35, […]

TXDOT Refuses to Build Guardrail Despite Claim That “Safety Is Our Number One Goal” (NBC DFW) Montgomery County Approves $63M, 3.6 Mile Expansion of Hwy 290 (Community Impact) Austin May Convert Seven Acres of Zilker Park to 700 Parking Spots (Austin Monitor) Fourteen Journalists Laid Off From Texas’ Fourth Largest Newspaper (Express-News) Mayor Turner Advocates […]

Live Stream of Texas Transportation Commission, Which Governs TXDOT Travis County Funds Study of Capital Metro’s Lowest Ridership Project Connect Proposal (ABJ) VIA Unveils Draft Plan for Bus Rapid Transit “Trackless Train” Network (Rivard) … VIA Also Opened $28 Million Park&Ride With 377 Spots (Rivard) Close to Three Million Texans Will Go on Road Trips […]

Congestion at the US-Mexico Border Impacts Economy, Environment, & Public Health (Morning News) CapMetro to Pilot Solar-Powered Messaging Stations at Bus Stops Within 30 Days (Jay Blazek Crossley) Trinity Metro Begins Testing Rail Line, Opening to Public on December 31 (Star-Telegram) 13 Year Old in Stolen Car Chased by Police, Two Crashes, No Injuries (Morning […]

With 51 Metro Area Ped Deaths in 2017, City of San Antonio Investing in Complete Streets (Rivard) TXDOT Might Spend Half a Billion Dollars to Widen US 290 to 12 Lanes for 70,340 Vehicles (Statesman) CapMetro Building New South Austin Transit Center Under Highway Overpass (KXAN) Modest Light Rail Expansion in DFW’s Mobility 2045 Draft, […]