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Extensive Lawmaker Grandstanding About Tolls and Car-Based Freedom Expected Today (KXAN) Council Members Push for Funding and Implementing Recently Passed SATomorrow Plan (Rivard) Add Another $10 Million to the Cost of the Failed Katy Freeway Expansion (Your Houston News) Matamoros and Brownsville Plan International Hike/Bike Trail Connecting Urban Arts Districts (Rivard) How Big of a Deal Is […]

Truck Freight Interests Pleased With Subsidy to Increase Truck Traffic (Transport Topics) TXDOT and CTRMA Denied Cover for Potential Loss of Endangered Species of SH45 SW (Monitor) Dallas Streetcar Extension to Bishop Arts District Starts Carrying Passengers Today (KERA) Update: The City of Dallas Still Only Has Two Bike-Share Stations (Rik Adamski) TXDOT Lowering Speed Limit on […]

Vision Zero Action in Austin — Safety Improvements in Store for 5 Intersections (Community Impact) Austin ISD Has a “Where’s the Bus?” App for Parents to Check Out Where the School Bus Is DLINK Has Crazy Convoluted Bus Routes, But Now Connect to Farmers’ Market (Phillip Goss) People in Frisco Are Fighting With Guns Over Parking Lot Driving […]

Houston’s First Mixed-Use, Mixed-Income Transit-Oriented Development Leads the Way (Offcite) H-GAC Head Guy Not Sure If UTP Means $3 Billion, $4 Billion, or $5 Billion for Houston Roads (Houston Public Media) Four Years Into Imagine Austin, City Continues Haphazard, Parochial Planning by Pitchfork (Monitor) “Liberty Caucus” Believes 476 Texans Should Die Every Year for Freedom to Drive […]

All Eight Austin Ride Hailing Services Meet Fingerprinting Requirements By Deadline (Statesman) Sprawl Counties Propose Making CAMPO Technical Advisory Committee Even More Inequitable (Monitor) TXDOT Believes One Webinar and One Meeting Is “Extensive Public Input” for $70 Billion UTP (TXDOT) Segregationist Austin Zoning & Planning Commission Keeps Opposing Imagine Austin, Urbanism (Monitor) HISD Opens Second New Campus in Transit-Accessible, […]

More Than 200 People Show Up at DART Meeting in Support of D2 Subway (Morning News) …DART Might Make Dallas Choose Between Streetcar Expansion and Subway (Morning News) Jarrett Walker: Falling Oil Prices, Sputtering Economy Kept Houston Bus Ridership Down Officer James Combs, Who Killed Brian Manring Driving Drunk, Finally Arrested Four Days Later (PINAC) Somebody Started a […]