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How Angela Hunt Changed Dallas’s Mind About Its Divisive Riverside Toll Road (Tribune) Parks to Play In, Kick a Ball, Stuff Like That, Instead of Parks to Drive By and Look At (Dallas Observer) Fine Levied on Second CTRMA Leader Accused of Not Disclosing Business Interests (Houston Chron) …CTRMA Using Construction Staff to Support Local […]

Today, We Kill the Trinity Toll Road (D Magazine) Brandon Formby Is Live-Tweeting It Collin County Residents Fighting Highway That Could Cut Through Homes (Morning News) Texas Transportation Commission Approves Socializing Costs of Toll Road (El Paso Times) Check Out the Santa Fe Trail’s New Signage (The Advocate of Lakewood / East Dallas) New Bike-Share Systems […]

Travis Commissioner Daugherty Pushing to Add One More Sprawl Road to Sprawl Subsidy Bond (Monitor) Houston Chronicle: Governor Abbott Should Drop His War On Cities Mayor Turner: Urban Areas of Texas Are Economic Engines of the State (Houston Chron) Suburban Developers Moving into Urban Houston Development Market (Houston Chron) City of Austin Wants More Drunk […]

Dallas Now Has Two Competing Bike-Share Companies, With a Third on the Way (D Magazine) Cap Metro Public Information Request Reveals TXDOT Memo on I-35 BRT Ridership Estimates CM Kitchen Wants to Repair, Not Expand, Barton Springs Bridge to Zilker Park (Community Impact) Olivia Rehonic, 21, Drove Drunk and Killed Donald Norman Clifford II, 32 […]

Ding Dong, the Trinity Toll Road Is (Almost) Dead (KERA) …Texas Transportation Commission May Overrule People of Dallas, Add Lanes Nearby (NBCDFW) Reductions In Street Lighting Since 2008 Have Increased Harassment for Women (The Establishment) Driver Kills Elsa Vorwek, 72, on Williams Road, Which Has No Pedestrian Crossing for 3 Miles, No Sidewalks (KXAN) Largest […]

Capital Metro Blames Cheap Parking for Reduction in Community College Transit Riders (Monitor) CapMetro May Prioritize Rapid, Frequent Bus in Capital Expenditures Next Year (Community Impact) Houston Transportation Lobby Group Hosting 1st Annual State of TXDOT Luncheon Aug 29, $75 Crosswalk Buttons in Houston Actually Do Something, But Maybe We Don’t Want Them (Houston Chron) […]