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Some on Dallas Council Want to Replace DART Appointees Supportive of Suburban Rail (Morning News) HEB Building Mixed-Use “Urban Prototype” Grocery Store on Wash Ave (Houston Chron) House Passes Rep. Israel Bill to Allow CapMetro to Run Buses on Freeway Shoulders (Monitor) Mayor Turner Proposes 17% Cut to Planning Department But 18% Increase in Transpo Planning CTRMA Adds Two New Board Members […]

Meetings on Houston’s I-45 With Brewery Option — This Is a Huge Deal (Houston Chron) Taylynn Carrol Cumpton, Age 2, Killed in Car Crash (Abilene News) UCLA Study Explains How Decreasing Travel Speeds Can Increase Access (ITS) Poor Urban & Transportation Planning Means Economic Development = Traffic (Morning News) Dallas Put a Very Pretty Crosswalk in at McKinney and Lemon […]

Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick Currently Blocking Txting Ban From a Senate Vote (Statesman) Brazoria County Officials Hope Freeway Widening Finally Works This Time (HPM) TXDOT Hopes Widening I-35 in Dallas Finally Works This Time (Construction Dive) Boy Fleeing From Wild Dogs on His Bike Struck By Driver on a Neighborhood Street (KSAT) Texas House Rejects Bill That Would Have […]

Austin Council Okays Converting 5th Street to Two-Way After First Ever Nighttime Traffic Study (Monitor) DART Wants You to Fill Out This Survey on Satisfaction With Rail 44 Of Texas’s 100 “Most Congested” Roadways Are in the Houston Region (Houston Chron) Awash in Evidence to the Contrary, TXDOT Claims Freeway Widening Reduces Congestion (Click2Houston) Austin’s First Batch of Mobility […]

SB 2103 Passes Senate Transpo Committee 5-1; Senator Nichols: “I’m Okay With It” Driver Kills 3-Year-Old Boy Playing Ball on His Neighborhood Street in Fort Worth (Morning News) Can Austin Still Adopt a Form-Based Code That Takes Climate Change Seriously? (KUT) Time Spent Hearing from “Neighborhoods” Means Enviro Commission Not Able to Work on CodeNEXT (Monitor) Awesome Ai Weiwei Bicycle Sculpture Will Be […]

Martha Blazek, Pine Tree ISD Middle School Nurse, Killed in Car Crash (KLTV) One Third of San Antonio Campaign Donations Come From Real Estate Industry (Express News) El Paso MPO Presents Draft 2045 Regional Transportation Plan (KVIA) There’s Still Time to Put Transit on the Table for Oltorf and Pleasant Valley (CapMetro) TXDOT’s Mesa Street Corridor Study Looking at Improvements […]