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Capital Metro Defends MetroRail After Flawed Forbes Attack on Rail Transit (MetroBlog) Austin City Manager Sends First Memo on Vision Zero Progress (City of Austin) City of Austin Hiring Two Complete Streets/Vision Zero Interns (Apply) Patrick Kennedy‘s Safe Streets Activism Includes Using Personal Speed Gun to Monitor Dallas Streets SATomorrow Accepting Applications for Sustainability Awards Until August 26 […]

Texas Comptroller’s Office Examines the Fiscal Impacts of Massive Road Spending (Fiscal Notes) Rick Wamre: Dallas Should Find a City Manager With Experience in Walkable Urban Cities (Advocate) H-GAC Commits Half a Million to Study Unnecessary 36A Sprawl Road (Houston Chron) Polling: Only 27% of Austin Voters Would Vote Against the Good Light Rail Plan (Austin […]

Dallas Morning News Writer Pens Anti-Walking in Weather, Pro Tunnels Screed Bexar County Commissioner Kevin Wolff Rear Ended Two Vehicles in Drive Thru, Arrested for DWI (Rivard) Dallas Observer Suggests Christie Myers Actually Ditch Her Car for Transit Riding Experiment The Woodlands Township First Ever Pedestrian and Bicycle Master Plan Available for Comment Austin’s CAMPO Hiring […]

Capital Metro Doesn’t Really Want Key Transit Design Element of Bond Proposal (Austin Monitor) “Multimodal” CTRMA Spending $130 Million on Flyovers at One Toll Road Intersection (Statesman) The OK-TX HSR Proposal Could Continue to Monterrey, Mexico (BizJournals) UT-Arlington Students Counting Every Tree in Downtown Dallas for Walkability Study (Morning News) San Antonio Council to Vote on Sustainability, […]

More Frequent Service Is the Top Priority for Austinites’ in CapMetro Survey (Capital MetroBlog) Another Intercity Bus Service, Shofer, to Provide Houston <-> Dallas Service (BizJournals) Houston Police Officer Drives Through Red Light, Hits Bicyclist (About News) Grand Opening at Renovated Shopping Center on Bayou Greenway for Houston’s First Bike Through Restaurant What a Smart City Means to […]

Erratic Hit-and-Run Driver Killed 20 Year Old Man Last Night in Manor (KXAN) Kyle Workman, Leader of Texas Anti-HSR, Pretending Texas Is Not an Urban State (Bloomberg) Anti-HSR Groups Will Make Blocking Texas Central an Issue for Third Consecutive Session (Tribune) Pedestrian Connection at Mockingbird Station Prioritized Thanks to NCTCOG Ped Counts (Morning News) San Antonio’s […]