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Urban Air Quality, Highly Subject to Transportation Conditions, Makes Us All Smokers (DMag) American Public Transportation Association Awards METRO Bus Safety & Security Award Houston Car Share Expansion Delay Sheds Light on Turner’s Transportation Priorities (Houston Chron) Will 360 Tollway Make South Arlington, Grand Prairie, & Mansfield More Congested Than Ever? (Morning News) Austin Rapid […]

OpEd: Parking Requirements, Low Entitlements Exacerbate Affordable Housing Shortage (Rivard) In Denton, Typical Car Driven 64 Miles/Day – Passenger Rail Improves Air Quality, Reduces Congestion Woman Killed in 5th Cedar Park Traffic Fatality This Year, In Town of Only 70,000 (KXAN) Houston Transforming Major Downtown Artery, Bagby Stroad, into Safe, Multimodal Complete Street (Culture Map […]

Urban Counties Absorbing Most of Texas’ Growth- From Births, Migration, & Rural Counties Houston Chron) Dallas Skipped Out on Stress Tests for Margaret McDermott Bridge, Remains Broken & Closed (Observer) Brother of Man Who Died in Head-On Collision Advocates for 65 MPH Limit on Texas Highway (KLTV) New VIA Board Appointee: We are Light Years Behind… […]

Attorneys Trying to Establish Bicyclist Had Right to Be in Crosswalk When Killed (HPM) Environmentally Dubious 635 Expansion Moving Forward, Dropping Tolls (Morning News) Collin County Commissioners Send $750m Car-Subsidy Bond to Voters (CommunityImpact) Dallas Suburb To Host Nation’s First Robot Car Service, Starting in July (Tribune) …Reminder: Safety Regulations to Allow Robot Cars to […]

Capital Metro Installing Retrofits to Bus Stops to Give People Shade Collin County Need Not Spend $671m of Taxpayer Funds to Subsidize Sprawl (DMag) Interview, Profile of New CapMetro CEO Randy Clarke (ABJ) San Antonio Drainage Ditch Converted to Public Park (SAExpress) Amtrak Partners With Texas Bullet Train on Dallas-Houston Rail Line LINK Houston Executive Director […]

Advocates Lobby for Safety Upgrades at Deadly Rice-Area Intersection (Houston Chron) … Bill Fulton OpEd: Beyond Rice, It’s Unsafe to Walk Throughout the City (Houston Chron) Dallas Resident Trying to Cross Road Killed by Passing Driver Last Night (Morning News) $550m South Austin Highway Expansion Progresses After Nixing Tolls (Statesman) …About 3.5 Times More Expensive […]