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Traffic Deaths Up 11% in Texas Compared to This Time Last Year (National Safety Council) Behold the Capital Metro Connections 2025 Report (Monitor, KUT, Impact) How Dallas’s Street Grid Lends Itself to a Frequent Bus Network (D Magazine) In a Car Dependent Freeway & Arterial System, a Trump Visit Means Congestion (KUT) Dallas Council and DART Considering Streetcar Expansion Routes […]

Austin Budget Proposal Would Increase Fees to Fund Street and Sidewalk Maintenance (Monitor) Hour-Long High-Speed Police Chase Ends in Suspect Crashing Into Vehicle Carrying Family With Kids (ABC13) Petition Begs City of Houston Not to Widen 4-Lane Urban Street — Hillcroft — Into 6-Lane Stroad TXDOT Strategic Planning Staff: Texas Will Not Be Able to Build Its […]

A Year After New Bus Network, Metro Ridership Up 7% – 3 Million Additional Rides (Rivard) Dallas City Council Indicates Support for D2 Subway and Bus Reimagining (Morning News) …But DART Will Not Copy Houston’s Overnight Switch (Morning News) Hays County to Vote on $131M Roads-Only Bond: $0 for Sidewalks, Transit, Bike (Community Impact) Grand Parkway […]

McClennan County Assistant DA Who Prosecutes DWIs Arrested for DWI (Houston Chron) TXDOT Has Not Been Collecting Late Fees for Toll Drivers for a Year and A Half (Houston Public Media) Texas Senator Robert Nichols: There is No Such Thing as a Free Road (Tyler Morning Telegram) How Can San Antonio Not Just Let Three SA Tomorrow Plans Just […]

Swerving Off Duty Police Officer With Alcohol on Breath Killed Brian Manring, 36-Yr-Old Father (KHOU) City of San Antonio Giving Away Central City Lots to Affordable Housing Nonprofits (Rivard) TTI Infrastructure Investment Analysis Has No Serious Current, Completed Projects on Transit, Walk, Bike Collin County Leaders Plan Sprawl Nightmare (Morning News) …Maybe Paying Some Transit Taxes – Instead of Corporate […]

TXDOT Makes Clear We Won’t Necessarily Ever Build High-Speed Rail (BizJournals) Austin Slowly, Quietly Installing Safer Intersections With 2012 Bond Funds (City of Austin) Someone Died in a Crash This Morning on Stroad Built for Speed in Round Rock (KXAN) You Will Not Get to Vote for Light Rail Funding in Austin in 2016 (KVUE) Misinformation Campaign Continues […]