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Houston Is the Example of How Letting Bigots Block Low-Income Housing Is Bad Policy (NYT) 19 Texas Uber Drivers Sue to Be Considered Employees (Morning News) Morning News Real Estate Editor Hasn’t Read CityMAP & His Favorite Place Has a Walkscore of 16/100 Sprawl Welfare Recipients Who Cause Traffic Worry About Others Doing Same (Morning News) Last […]

Kinder Walkability Event Reignites Call for a Walkable United Way Event Space (Christof Spieler) Developers Met With Mayor Turner and Planning Dept About Complete Communities (Sylvester Turner) First Finished Project From Austin’s 2016 Bond Is a Sidewalk With a Ped Island, Serving a Kid in a Wheelchair (Fox 7) Austin’s Black Population Is Growing Again (Monitor) […]

Every New DART Board Member Is Prioritizing Bus System Reimagining (Dallas Observer) Missing: A Morally Defensible Case for Restricting Residents Per Parcel in Austin (Car Free Austin) Nobody at #TXLege Wants to File Abbott’s Bill to Force Cities to Increase Distracted Driving Deaths (Tribune) Gary Hatfield, 71, Killed Trying to Walk Across Unwalkable I-30 in […]

$600 Million Houston Bond Could Include Bike Plan Funding (Houston Chron) Why Tomorrow’s DART Board Appointment Vote Is About More Than Cities and Suburbs (D Magazine) Groundbreaking Ceremony Today for Plaza Saltillo Transit-Oriented Development (@CapMetro) Why Is the Mopac Freeway Project Taking So Much Longer Than Planned? (KUT) San Antonio’s VIA Launching Mobile App Today Austin Film […]

Austin’s Project Connect Advances Despite Lingering Concerns Over Key Details (Monitor) Austin Mayor Adler and Mayor Pro Tem Tovo to Lead Walk and Talk on New Sidewalk (Austin Mobility) Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner Takes National Climate Change Leadership Position (Houston Chron) ULI Study Suggests Moving Austin Homeless Shelter Out of Downtown (Fox7) Harris County Commissioners Court Not […]

CapMetro Board Approves Project Connect Phase II, But Adds Oltorf & Pleasant Valley (Monitor) Across All Levels of Income, Higher Rent Equals Lower Transportation Costs (CityLab) Houston’s Bayou Greenways and Buffalo Bayou Park Join Newly-Created High Line Network (Kinder) San Antonio CM Robert Treviño Wants Texas’s 2nd Rainbow Crosswalks Before Pride on July 1 (TPR) Hit-and-Run Driver Killed Josie Betancourt, 63, […]