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Tickets Still Available for TransitCenter Event in Austin Next Wednesday, June 14 Hallelujah: Houston Metro Says Missouri City Commuter Transit Doesn’t Have to Be Rail (Impact) Developer Kills 75 Live Oak Trees to Clear View of Home Depot for Drivers on Freeway (NBCDFW) Texas Transportation Institute Moving Into Dangerous, High VMT Campus Location (Virtual BX) […]

CapMetro’s Ride Hailing Experiment Is Ride-Sharing, Uses MetroAccess Drivers (Statesman) Report Finds Most Traffic in Rainey Neighborhood Caused By I-35 (Monitor) Entitled Texans Expect to Be Allowed to Cheat Property Tax System (KXAN) Tekita Marshall Killed Trying to Walk Across Five-Lane Road With No Safe Crossings (KLTV) Woman and Young Child Injured in Crash on 360 in Arlington This Morning […]

Travis County Okays Using Affordable Housing Funds for Unaffordable Sprawl (Monitor) Leandor ISD Seeks to Pave Wildlife Preserve to Excuse Bad Location Decisions (TWC News) Speeding Driver Dies After Hitting Wall Along Road in Southeast Dallas (Morning News) Arlington Robot Shuttle Bus Will Replace the Walk From Parking Lots to Venues (GovTech) TXDOT Forced CTRMA to Socialize Costs of New […]

Bexar County Judge Wants Boerne-to-Downtown San Antonio Commuter Rail (KSAT) Accounting Trick by #TXLege Means $2B Less for TXDOT Roads in 2018, Sort Of (Tribune) HB 931 On Governor’s Desk to Extend Utility Line Hike/Bike Trail Program (Houston Chron) Reconnect Austin’s I-35 Plan Is Running Out of Time (Towers) Uber Returns to Austin With UberPool Ride […]

Houston Built Amazing Urban Park, But You Can’t Get to It Safely, Comfortably (Offcite) Trust for Public Land: Houston Near Bottom in Terms of Parks Accessibility (HPM) Architect Proposes Bars in Bayou Parks Along Hike/Bike Trails (Houston Chron) Houston Greenfield Sprawl Now Has Nature Amenity Instead of Golf (Houston Chron) With Failure of Bill at #TXLege, […]

Christmas Tree — er, Sunset Bill — Finished on Last Day of Session, Extends TXDOT Until 2029 Dallas Police Officer Seriously Injured in Hit-and-Run Crash (Fox4) Houston Chronicle: City Street Designs Catching Up to What People Want Wednesday Is Last Day to Comment on Awesome Designs for Lower Westheimer Democratic Filibuster Kills Bill to Effectively Stop City Annexation of Sprawl (Tribune) Highway […]