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Austin to Charge More for On-Street Parking Downtown (KUT) CAMPO to Study Pricy Car-Based Suburban Transit While Cap Metro Looks at All Transit (Statesman) A Personal Story of the Burdens and Indignities of Living in Poor Urban Form Without a Car (OffCite) San Antonio Plans to Change Broadway From Dangerous Stroad to Multimodal Complete Street (Rivard) Texas […]

Mayor Sylvester Turner Says Houston Needs to Reduce Parking to Maximize Efficiency (Houston Chron) Austin’s New Downtown Rail Station Could Be Under Construction This Year (Community Impact) Austin Joins People for Bikes’ “Big Jump” Project to Double or Triple Bicycling (ATD) AAMPO Policy Council Prioritizes Building Loop 1604 Toll Lanes With Prop 7 Funds (Express-News) Luis Rangel Jr. […]

Somebody Thinks It Makes Sense to a 10-Story Parking Garage in Downtown Dallas (Morning News) Now When Patrick Kennedy Tweets About Improving Transit, He’s Doing It as a DART Board Member Austin Police Department Launching Targeted Enforcement of Dangerous Driving Behaviors (City of Austin) CAMPO Regional Active Transportation Plan Public Meetings Start Today. Or Take the Survey. City […]

The People of Houston Think Sidewalks Are the Most Poorly Done City Service (Houston Chron) Terry Hershey, Titan of Houston’s Urban Environmental Movement, Dies at 94 (Houston Chron) A Houston Metro Bus Full of People Filled Up With Flood Waters Yesterday (ViralHog) Density More Important Than Building Efficiency in Fighting Climate Change (Grist) Pedestrian Killed by Driver on […]

Travis County Seeks Nominees to Serve on CAMPO Technical Advisory Committee in New Open Call Austin to Install 12 New Bicycle Priority Traffic Signals (TWC, Austin on a Bike) Chandra Sekhar Gutti Bala Was at Twice Legal Alcohol Limit When He Killed Mother and Son (KXAN) Texas Transpo Commission Wants to Expand Underutilized SH130 Toll Road? […]

Freeways, Streets, Bus Routes, MPO Meetings Shut Down By Rain in Houston. Again. Light Rail Running. Texas Will Have More for Road Spending Than Ever in 2018 and 2019 (Star-Telegram) “Project Connect” Meeting Reveals Beginnings of Austin’s Next Big Transit Push (Susan Somers) AURA Has a Petition Going to Support Capital Metro Connections 2025 Plan for Frequent Bus Grid Public Comment Period for Killeen-Temple […]