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Mayor Adler: CodeNEXT Maps Will Be Wrong When We Release Them, So Fix Them (Monitor) …Can Draft 1,000-Page Land Development Code Be Meaningfully Translated Into Spanish? (KUT) Student Bike Advocates Doubt Mixed Ped/Bike Treatment Will Be Nice to Bike On (Daily Texan) Houston’s Newest Bayou Greenways Hike/Bike Trail Also Has a Golf Cart Path (HPM) Senator Borris […]

City Council Did Not in Fact Vote on Houston Bike Plan — Delayed 2 Weeks (Houston Chron) US Senate Unanimously Passes Bill to Overrule MPO Rule Requiring Austin and San Antonio to Act as One (Eno) New Organization Better Block Austin Hosting First Event at 12th & Chicon, April 15 SB 312, the TXDOT Sunset Bill, Includes Anti-Transit and/or High […]

City Council Finally Voting on Houston Bike Plan This Morning (HPM) SXSW Is Also an Open Streets Event with Streets Dedicated to People for Up to 9 Days (SpectrumNewsATX) Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority Succeeds at Inducing Suburban Traffic (Monitor) Senator Bob Hall Advocating for More Traffic Deaths at Transportation Committee (Houston Chron) San Antonio Rebuilding Frio […]

Four Things to Know About All the Austin Area Transportation Plans (Community Impact) US Mayors Push for New Federal Infrastructure Spending to Come Directly to Cities (Route Fifty) Kinder Institute Study Trying to Get a Handle on Close Calls for Bicyclists and Pedestrians (HPM) 3 Blocks of Mixed-Use Development to Replace Downtown Dallas Surface Parking (Morning […]

Okay, Maybe It Is Real This Time: Houston Bike Plan Going to Council March 8 (Houston Bikeways) 17-Year-Old Killed in Car Crash on Arlington Freeway (Arlington Voice) March 9: Public Meeting on Georgetown‘s Williams Drive Study Seeking Safe, Multimodal Street Mixed Use Redo of Highland Mall Bringing Various Improvements to Neighborhood (Community Impact) Today on Houston Matters […]

Houston Finally Relaxes Parking Requirements for City of Montrose — Congrats OKRA (Houston Chron) Houston Area MPO Leaders Accept Mayor Turner’s Call for Paradigm Shift to Transit (Houston Chron) Austin Council Finally Approves TXDOT Request to Lower Speed Limit on North Lamar (Mayor Adler) Austin Council Fends Off NIMBYs to Approve 800 Unit Mixed-Use, Mixed-Income TOD (BizJournals) We […]