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San Antonio, Austin Mayors Want Better Regional Transportation Planning (BizJournals) …With Many Ready to Declare Lone Star Rail Dead (My San Antonio) …and the SH130 Toll Road a Tremendous Failure (Express News) City of Houston Slowly Replacing “Share” Signs With “Bikes May Use Full Lane”(BikeHouston) TXDOT Publishes Bicycle Fatality Stats — City Street Crashes Less Lethal Than Others TTI Finishing […]

Governor Abbott Says Something About High Speed Rail, Thinks Robo-Cars Are Future (Tribune) Can Mixed-Use, Transit-Oriented Redevelopment Not Price Out Existing Folks? (Houston Chron) HGAC Federal Clean Air Funds Drive Kids to School in Cleaner Buses (Your Houston News) El Paso Drivers Pissed Off at Inconvenience of Police Cleaning Up Deadly Bus Crash (KVIA) TXDOT Trying to Recoup Costs […]

CAMPO TPB Votes to Reduce Travis County Reps on the Technical Advisory Committee (Monitor) CARTS & Cap Metro Help City of Georgetown to Launch Four Bus Routes (Statesman) San Antonio City Council May Vote Today to Expand Vacant Building Program (Express News) Bexar County Leads State in Distracted Driving Crashes and Deaths (WOAI) Austin Was Only Major Texas […]

Majority of Texans Want TNCs Regulated Like Taxis by Cities, Not Lege (Houston Chron) Driver Hits and Injures 5th Grader Trying to Pass a Loading School Bus (Wilson County News) …Alamo Area Council of Governments Believes It Was an “Accident” That Injured 5th Grader North Dallas CM Lee Kleinman Argues for the Cotton Belt Rail Line (Morning News) City of […]

CAMPO TPB Further Disenfranchises Travis County Residents (Decide Texas) Credit Where Due: TAG Houston Puts a Diverse Face on Its Transportation Spending Lobby Thankfully, Progress on the Trinity Toll Road Has Stalled (Morning News) Charges Not Expected Against Driver Who Killed Bicyclist in “Accident” on Dark Road (KHOU) Bexar County Deputies Target Speeding Traffic in School Zones […]

Montgomery County Judge “Secret Road Bond” Doyal Has Business With Contractor (Houston Chron) Austin Child Asks Mom to Pull Over for Snacks to Get Her to Stop Driving Drunk (KEYE) Study: Socializing Texas Toll Roads Would Require $24B Subsidy (CBSDFW) Downtown Dominates DART Rail Boardings; Cotton Line Potential Very Small (D Magazine) Austin CM Zimmerman Has Nominated Only 4% Women […]