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Austin Funds Bike Lane Nighttime Lighting Concept Proposed by City Employee Robin Camp (KXAN) Travis County Commissioner Daugherty Calls on Senator Watson to Reform Capital Metro Structure (Monitor) Free Event: Houston Metro’s Priya Zachariah to Present on Regional Transit Plan, Wed., June 28, Noon Houston Metro to Connect to Island Transit. Raj Wins a Seamless Bus Trip […]

DART Looks Like One of the Worst Transit Agencies in the Nation By Various Metrics (Observer) Hispanics Made Up Half of Texas Population Growth Since 2010 (KUT) New Downtown Austin Alliance Study: There’s Plenty of Parking Downtown (KUT) San Antonio Area Folks: Alamo Area MPO Available to Do Walk Audits for Schools and Parks Dallas City […]

Houston Spending $36 Million on Smart Streets Tech Stuff (Houston Chron) Hallelujah! Work Has Begun to Smooth Guadalupe, Austin’s Most-Traveled, Bumpy Street to Ride a Bike or Bus On (KXAN) Austin Is Saying All the Right Things About Its New Street Design Guide (KUT) Speeding Driver Knocks Other Car Off Road, Killing All Four Passengers (Click2Houston) Metro Bus Driver Trainer and […]

Parents of Teen Killed in Austin Crosswalk Sue City of Austin and the Driver (KXAN) Suburban DFW Leaders Demand City Taxpayers Fix Horrible Mess Suburban Form Leaves Them In (Morning News) Pro-Sprawl Rail Advocates Charter Bus Instead of Taking DART Bus to DART Meeting (Addison News) State Rep Victoria Neave Was at Twice the Legal Blood Alcohol Limit […]

Happy Juneteenth! Austin Celebrates in the Street. Houston Renames a Confederate Street to Emancipation Avenue. Today in Rampaging “Autonomous” Vehicles (USNews/AP, Statesman) Houston’s Montrose Finally Has #PrideWalks at Westheimer & Taft to Honor Alex Hill (KHOU) Austin Council Passes Resolution for Capital Metro & ATD to Integrate Transit Into Zoning (CM Delia Garza) Segregationists Not Willing to Name […]

Sen. Zaffarini Will File a Statewide Hands-Free Cell Phone Law in Special Session (Tribune) …Using NSC National Rate, an Estimated 792 Texans Killed By Drivers on the Phone in 2016 Vision Zero Intersection Fixes to Be First Austin Bond Projects on the Ground (Statesman) Station-less Bike Share Company Deploying in Dallas With Wink, But No Permission (D Magazine) You Can Volunteer to […]