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Get Out and Vote Today! Smith County Judge Resigns for Violating Open Meetings Act Over Red Light Cameras (Longview News) Montgomery County Judge, Commissioners Headed to Trial for Similar Violation for Road Bonds (Houston Chron) Waco Police Sgt: People Who Drive Distracted Past Fatal Crash Scene Should Be Ashamed (KCEN) Is MLK Blvd Being Reconstructed in Violation of […]

Houston Spike in Pedestrian Deaths Spurs Calls for Vision Zero and Better Urban Design (Houston Chron) All TXDOT Options for Loop 360 Based on Flawed CAMPO Models Assuming Sprawl (Monitor) Capital Metro CEO Linda Watson Does Not Understand How to Invest in Rail Transit (KEYE) Plano Building Lots of Mixed-Use Urbanism With Lots of Parking on DFW Freeway (Morning News) Everybody […]

Streetcar Project Got Scammed Out of $3.2 Million Through Email Phishing (El Paso Times) Kinder Study: Share of “Poor” Neighborhoods in Houston in 1980: 9%; in 2016: 39% (KHOU) City of Sugar Land Will Grow From 87,000 to 117,000 With Annexation of Sprawl MUDs (Houston Chron) City of Austin Adopts Age-Friendly Austin Plan With Focus on Improving Pedestrian Environment […]

TXDOT Adding a Lane on Each Side of Katy Freeway by Restriping Direct Connections (Houston Chron) Construction Beginning on Private Toll Road in the Middle of 288 in Houston (ABC13) TTI Poll Results: Investing Vastly More in Driving Than Transit Doesn’t Yield Good Transit (Houston Chron) Austin City Council Asks for Capital Metro to Waste Money on Parking, Help […]

Austin Neighborhood Tried to Manipulate Traffic Count at Intersection (Dan Keshet) After Success at ADA Compliance at Stations, Capital Metro Focusing on  Shelters (Monitor) Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Woman on High-Speed TXDOT Feeder Stroad (Statesman) San Antonio Planning Commission Gets “Adequate” Parking, Likely Causing Traffic (Express News) British Reporter Profiles Houston to Question US Ability to Kick Driving Addiction (Guardian) […]

Houston’s Hermann Park to Bury Parking to Prioritize Walking and Biking (Houston Chron) Buffalo Bayou Park Getting Pushback From Parking Socialists (KHOU) Raymond Cui Hit a Critical Mass Bicyclist With His Car While Drunk, Then Fled (Houston Chron) Will Bus Service Be a Casualty of Low Ridership Cotton Belt Rail? (Morning News) Liberal and Conservative Coalition Opposes Wasteful Hays […]