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Capital Metro CEO Linda Watson to Retire at End of Year (Statesman) Houston Metro Installing Nice Permanent Bus Stop Signs With Posted Frequency Cost of Westpark Tollway Expansion Nearly Doubles (Houston Chron) Dallas Council Urged to Kill Trinity Toll Road, But Not Vote on Park Yet (Observer) Woman Drives Car Through Red Light in Bryan, Hits […]

Reporter Accepts Challenge, Finds Only Scary Part of Bus Is Lack of Shade at Stop (Houston Chron) Austin Pedestrian Safety Action Plan Released for Public Comment (Monitor) Austin Police Still Struggling to Make Drunk Driving Data More Accurate (Statesman) Bryan Seeking to Make It Easier to Segregate College Students Out of Entire Neighborhoods (Eagle) TransCore to Add […]

Wichita Falls Resident Tom McCoy Eloquently Argues for Statewide Hands-Free Ban (KAUZ) Even the Houston Chronicle Is Confused About #TXLege Distracted Driving Actions Allyn West: Enough Talk, Make Houston Streets Safer With Infrastructure (Houston Chron) Metro Painting Light Rail Trains With Brighter Colors So People Won’t Run Into Them (HPM) Austin Leaders “Knew the Tollroad [183A] […]

Mayor Adler Lays Out Three-Year Path to a Transformative Transit Vote in 2020 (Monitor) Houston Metro Board Chair Patman Establishes Sidewalk Connectivity Task Force (HPM) Comments Due Today on the Largest Transportation Project in Texas: Rebuilding I-45 in Houston …Christof Spieler Has Two Good Ideas: Consolidate Two Freight Lines & Erase More Freeway …Houston Council […]

Billboards With Message From Police on Safe Passing Ordinance Going Up Around Houston (HPD) Australian Developer Building Walkable Urban Building in Midtown (Houston Chron) New Bike Traffic Signals Installed Around Austin (ATD), But Oh, the Comments VIA Rapid Transit Survey Closes on August 5 — It Asks If Dedicating Street Space to Transit Is Okay […]

SB15 — to Weaken Distracted Driving Laws — Now on Senate Floor Calendar and Could Get a Vote 75 People Registered in Opposition to the Bill, 11 Testified for More Deaths, Including AT&T Thursday: House Transpo Comm to Consider Both a Statewide Hands-Free Bill and a SB15 Companion VIA Installing Really Nice Bus Stops in San Antonio – […]