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Watch Patrick Kennedy Make His Case to Become a Member of the DART Board (City of Dallas) …Committee Voted to Recommend the Marketing Guy, Instead of Guy Who Knows Transit (Observer) Austin Parents Demand Safe Streets After Truck Hit Kid on the Way to School on Tuesday (TWC) Sylvester Turner to Announce Agreement Between City […]

Lower Westheimer Corridor Study Public Meeting: Wed Nov 16, 5pm, 1475 W Gray St (Houston Planning) Travis Co Transpo Plan Might Add Car Capacity, Commuter Rail; All Meetings Are Car Dependent Ride Report Has Produced Initial Crowdsourced Comfortable Bike Route Map of Austin (Austin Mobility) Dallas Council to Choose Either Patrick Kennedy for DART Board or Admitted Know Nothing (Brandon Formby) Travis County Residents Can […]

CAMPO Consultants Move Forward With Road Diets for 183 Area (Community Impact) Austin City Auditor: Neighborhood Plans are Inequitable, Unrepresentative, and Block Participation San Antonio VIA & Communities in Schools Give Students in Need Free Transit Passes (Rivard) Tom Craddick Has Again Filed a Bill to Ban Driving While Using a Phone in Texas (Houston Chron) …Senator Judith […]

Houston Tomorrow Is Broadcasting Intersections 2016 on Facebook Live Round Rock to Pay Capital Metro to Provide Transit Outside Service Area (Statesman) Council, Capital Metro, Activists Seem Ready for Good Urban Rail for Austin (KXAN) SA Council Won’t Fund More Frequent Bus Service for VIA (Maybe After 2017 TXLege) (Express News) Texas Employer Traffic Safety Program Helps Companies Train Employees Not […]

Report Concludes That Parking Is Too Cheap in Downtown Austin (BizJournals, Monitor, KUT) San Antonio’s Alamo Area Metropolitan Planning Org Calls for Vision Zero (AAMPO) Broad Support for Austin Bond, Even Though It Could Remove Car Lanes (Statesman) Kroger Building a Mixed-Use Super Market With Apartments in Downtown Dallas (Morning News) El Paso PD Increasing Enforcement to End Traffic […]

Austin Passes $500M Complete Streets Bond to Support Transit-Oriented Development (Statesman, KUT) Hays County Approves $131M Roads-Only Bond to Encourage Sprawl (Statesman) What’s Wrong With Comparing Seattle to Houston? (StrongTowns) You Can Now Fill Out a More Detailed Survey for the Travis County Transportation Plan Construction Begins on SH45SW Toll Road to Sprawl Austin More, Increase Traffic […]