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TXDOT Responds to Legislators’ Questions About High-Speed Rail (Tribune) AECOM Develops Texas L Hyperloop Proposal: HOU – SA – ATX – DFW (Houston Chron) Here’s How Austin Taskforce Wants to Address Institutional Racism (KUT) National Transportation Safety Board Finishes On-Site Investigation of Church Bus Crash (TPR) Margarita Victoria Tobon Arrested for Hitting 7-Year-Old on Bike and Driving Away (Lubbock Online) Ghost Bike […]

If Congress Doesn’t Undo Obama MPO Rule By May 9, Austin & San Antonio MPOs Will Merge (Hill) DART Says Burton’s Anti-Transit Bill Threatens Downtown Subway, Not Just Cotton Line (Morning News) Driver Kills 15-Year-Old Fleeing Texas Foster Care System, Walking on Stroad (Morning News) Texas Senators May Understand the Need for Texting Ban After a […]

Three Young Women Killed Turning Onto 4-Lane SH71 West of Austin — Road Diet Needed (Statesman) Anti-High Speed Rail Bills Will Have Their Senate Committee Hearing Wednesday (Statesman) What’s Hot in DFW? Walkability and a 24-Hour City (Morning News) Sara Hernandez de Guerrero Failed to Yield ROW at a Stop Sign and Killed Kimberly Skinner (KTRE) San Antonio’s VIA Hosting Workshops […]

It’s Time for Texas to Take Cell Phones Out of Motorists Hands (Morning News) Texas County Sheriffs Carry High Costs for Our Broken Transportation System (Dallas Observer) Houston’s Long Nightmare Is Over: Bike-Share Now Open 24 Hours a Day (Houston Bcycle) Capital Metro Got About 390 Households to Give Up Driving Alone for Only $300,000 (KXAN) Historic Preservation […]

Texas Senate — Led By Bob Hall — Wants More People to Die at Red Lights (NBCDFW) Senator Hall Does Not Believe This 2014 Study, But Likes This 2004 Study (Star Telegram) …SB 88 Was Amended to Exempt School Bus Cameras (TheNewspaper) This TTI Study Shows that Texas Red Light Cameras Have Reduced Crashes at Intersections 13 People Killed When Church Bus Crashes on Rural […]

Most of Dallas Is Unaffordable When You Count Transportation Costs. Can DART Fix It? (Morning News) DART BoardUrges Dallas Council Not to Take Away Transit Sales Tax Funding Texas Transportation Commission UTP Vote Opens the Firehose of Road Spending (Statesman) Someone Killed Jamie Ray Petree With a Car and Left Him to Die in a Ditch (12News) Pickup Driver […]