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Metro Chair Hopes Texas Central Will Help Pay for Local Transit Connections (Houston Chron) Austin City Council Makes Housing Coops Eligible for Affordable Housing Funds (KUT) Austin Sues State Over 2015 Law Forcing Cities to Allow Housing Discrimination (Monitor) Driver Crashes Into Bar Off Henderson Avenue in Old East Dallas (Morning News) Mayor Niremberg Launches […]

Houston Signs High-Speed Rail MOU with Texas Central; Station in Uninhabited Dead Mall Area Electric Cars Will Not Reduce Carbon Emissions Much Any Time Soon (Houston Chron) Capital Metro’s Bus Service Expansion to Round Rock Goes Live on August 21 American Society of Civil Engineers Support Vision Zero Capital Metro Advocates Against Road Building Houston’s Private Toll Road […]

With Special Session Coming to End, #TXLege Declined to Weaken City Distracted Driving Laws (Express News) The People of Dallas Held a Second Line Funeral Procession for the Trinity Toll Road (Brandon Formby) Boerne and San Antonio Fighting Over Right to Pave Over Hill Country with Sprawl (Houston Chron) Alissa Walker on “Mansplaining the City” […]

With Two Days Left in Special Session, Bill to Overrule Local Distracted Driving Bans Is Dead (Statesman) …AT&T Lobbyist Chose to Support HB 171 (to Allow Distracted Driving), Not HB 117 (to Prevent Deaths) Austin Transpo Dept Shifting Traffic Calming Program Toward Safe Design Speed, Away From Speed Bumps Texas Central Selects Firms to Build Houston-Dallas High Speed Rail […]

Texas Rail Advocates Backing Sprawl Rail in Dallas as It Seems to Comes to An End (Peter LeCody) Austin Monitor Interviews Capital Metro Lead Planner Todd Hemingson Denton Rep Pat Fallon Doubles Down on Bill Legalizing Killing Protesters With Cars Austin Transpo Dept Director Spillar: Dedicated Transit Lanes on Drag Going Forward (Monitor) There Are Still […]

The Secret Trick to Cutting Traffic: Charge for Parking Daily, Not Monthly (Seattle Times) Speed Played a Role in Trucker Careening Off Road and Killing Woman in Parked Car (News6) Capital Metro Leadership States Publicly That CAMPO Travel Demand Models Are Flawed (Monitor) CTRMA Board Member Nikelle Meade Helped Rescue Bicyclist Trapped Under Drunk Drivers’ […]