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Pickup Truck Driver Kills Two Year Old Girl in Parking Lot in Austin (KVUE) Driver Racing at 90 MPH Kills Father and Daughter Walking in Round Rock (Statesman) …Relatives Have Set Up a GoFundMe to Pay for the Funerals of Tyrone and Cheyenne Price (TWC) …Police Seeking Driver of the Other Car, Who Fled the Scene (KVUE) […]

CTRMA Amplifies Perception of Brief Period of Flowing Cars on Mopac by Speeding Up Video Bloomberg Selects Austin as One of Five Cities to Explore Policies for Robot Cars (AustinInno) “Experts” Prognosticate on Houston’s Growth, Private Market Says Pedestrian Urbanism (Houston Chron) Austin City Council to Consider Lamar Beach Plan, With New Boardwalk on Lady Bird Lake (VirtualBX) Video Posted […]

Point Austin Explains All the Fallacies of the Pro-Car Anti-Bond Folks (Austin Chron) CTRMA Clinging to Brief Period of Time When Wider Roads Show Perceived Benefit (KEYE) Doesn’t Anyone at DART Realize How Terrible Riding DART Is? (D Magazine) Battle Lines Being Drawn Over Austin’s CodeNEXT as Segregationists Defend Zoning (Austin Chron) Police Called to San Antonio […]

After Activists Rally at City Hall, Mayor Turner Says We Will Get the Bike Plan Done (Houston Chron, ABC13) Austin Legislative Agenda Calls for Safe Routes to Schools Funding and Local Options Transportation Funding Houston Legislative Agenda Calls for Balance in Transportation Funding Austin ISD Board Members Support Proposed Safe Routes to Schools Funding (KUT) DART […]

Partnership for a Healthy Texas Calls for #TXLege to Form Task Force to Create a Statewide Vision Zero Action Plan Capital Metro Kills the Hated Premium Fare on MetroRapid, Expects Increased Ridership (Monitor) Study Highlghts $5.3B of TOD Near DART Light Rail Between 1996 & 2013, With Another $5B Planned (DART, Study) Future Decisions Will […]

Today’s the Last Day to Tell FTA/FHWA If Austin, San Antonio Should Plan Transportation Together Kevin Sloan: After 22 Years of Driving, I Dumped My – Dallas – Commute (Morning News) Stoplights Added Where 3 Siblings Were Killed in West Dallas Crash (Morning News) Capital Metro Board Could Vote to Kill the $1.75 “Premium Fare” for […]