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Middle Schooler, Syrian Refugee, Killed in Crash While Riding His Bike (KTRK) Billboard-Backed Bastrop Resident May Get Austin Segregation on the Ballot (Statesman) Better Block Debuts DIY Parklet that Accommodates Dockless Bike Share (FOX4) ICYMI: Bayou Greenway Connection of White Oak and Buffalo Trails is Complete (Swamplot) Arlington – Largest US City Without Transit – […]

25% Drop in Traffic Fatalities for San Antonio in 2017, After 2016 Spike (Express News) Dockless Bikeshare Coming to Texas A&M College Station Campus (The Eagle) Pemian Basin MPO Establishing Bike Corridor Connecting Midland & Odessa (MRT) Capital Metro Frequent Lines “Bunching,” Calls for Dedicated Bus Lanes (Monitor) 11-Mile Dallas Southern Gateway Road Expansion Project […]

Houston’s Walkable Places Comm Talks “Ordinance to Promote City-wide Walkability” Today CAMPO to Keep Will Conley Chair With “Backroom Deal that Twists [Federal] Rules” (Monitor) You Can Email Questions for the Four Candidates for Capital Metro CEO Driver Kills One Good Samaritan, Injures Other Who Were Pushing SUV (Morning News) Carol Ellinger Haddock Will Be […]

Auto Sales Fall for the First Time Since Cash-For-Clunkers Subsidy (KVIA) Unidentified Hit-and-Run Driver Killed Shelton Manning, 62, Last Night (Morning News) I-45 Corridor Car Capacity Expansion Threatened by Anti-Toll Backlash (Houston Chron) Houston Chronicle Advocates for Spending on Car Capacity Expansion Spending AIA Austin Releases Report Saying CodeNEXT V.2 Draft Still Limits Missing Middle Is Carol Haddock […]

Why People Are Driving So Fast on Houston’s Streets And Freeways (HPM) Austin Traffic Deaths Down 25 Percent From the Peak in 2015 (CBS Austin) Six Hospitalized After Violent Crash During Police Chase (CBS DFW) Neither TXDOT or Montgomery County Feel 249 Expansion is Important Enough to Pay For It (Courier) Sister Mourns Loss of […]

Early Data Shows Progress at Four Dangerous Intersections (Austin Chron, KVUE) Metro Still Grappling With City of Houston Public Works Inability to Optimize Multimodal Streets (Houston Chron) Daughters Orphaned After Suspected Drunk Driver Kills Parents on I-45 – a TXDOT Facility (KVUE) 4 Hit-and-Run Deaths of Bicyclist, Pedestrians Remain Unsolved as 2017 Ends (El Paso […]