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In Party Line Vote, Senate Committee Advances SB15, Which Will Increase Distracted Driving Deaths (Tribune) …But It Was Not Rushed to Today’s Senate Floor Calendar, Like Other Bills Passed Out of Committee Over Weekend …House Committees Start Having Hearings This Week — SB15 Not Included Cap Metro Event Wednesday: Experts From Dallas, Denver to Discuss Failure of Suburban-Focused Transit Model […]

Texas State Rep Pat Fallon Files HB 250 to Legalize Killing Protestors with Car (@EmilyAMcCann) Rep Joaquin Castro Asks Elon Musk to Build The Texas L Hyperloop First (Washington Examiner) Metro Could Outsource to Harris County Toll Road Authority for Its HOT Lanes (Houston Chron) Houston Chronicle: City’s New Parks Director Should Focus on Making Us […]

First Two Seats on Texas Bullet Train Reserved for Barbara and George HW Bush Senator Huffines’ SB15 to Kill More People With Distracted Driving Will Get a Hearing Saturday Morning Capital Metro to Increase MetroRapid Frequency to Every 10 Minutes and Extend Hours on August 20 Janette Sadik-Khan Was Inside City of Houston 611 Walker Building, […]

Hit-and-Run Driver Leaves Pedestrian Fighting for Her Life in Memorial Area (Houston Chron) Houston Planning Dept and Bloomberg Associates Working on Safe Routes to Schools in East End People Who Think Buses Will Bring Bad People to Spring Turned Out at Metro Meeting (Houston Chron) Capital Metro Needs Another Year to Deploy New Bus Network […]

Four Different Bills to Encourage Distracted Driving or Discourage It Filed by #TXLege 26 Mayors Representing Almost 10 Million Texans Ask Governor Abbott for a Meeting Powerful Far-Right “Empower Texans” Calls for State to Overrule Local Parking Minimums Like California Texas Public Policy Foundation Calls for Removal of Local Restrictions on Housing in Urban Centers (Tribune) WalkAustin Raising $1,412 to Apply […]

People Who Made Terrible Housing Location Decisions Explain TXDOT Road Expansion (Rivard) Spring Publisher Wants Transit, But Not Buses, Because Bigotry (Spring Happenings) Mayor Adler Unveils Grand Plan to Fix Up All of East Side of Downtown (Austin Council Forum) Fort Hood Soldier, Spc. James Thomas Smith IV, Dies in Motorcycle Crash (Morning News) 19-Year-Old Man […]