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Mueller Has Plans Showing 600 Sq Ft Lots – 32 of Them in the Middle of a Block (MATX) TXDOT and City of El Paso Lower Speed Limit on Section of I-10 in Response to Crashes (El Paso Inc.) Jarrett Walker Told Capital Metro That Ride-Hailing Doesn’t Matter Much for Transit Agencies (Monitor) Walkable, Bikeable Town […]

New TTI Brochure Claims Added Road Capacity Can Reduce Congestion, Ignores Induced Congestion Hit-and-Run Truck Driver Killed Pedestrian in El Paso Saturday Night (El Paso Proud) Traffic Fatalities in El Paso 41% Higher Than This Time Last Year (El Paso Times) Austin Transportation Officials Blame Distracted Drivers for Failing to Trigger Traffic Signals (KUT) Mayor Adler Explains […]

Police Searching for Hit and Run Driver Who Killed 5 Year Old Boy, Injured Another (ABC13, Statesman) Austin Paints Its First Creative Crosswalk (ATX Mobility) Nobody Wants to Talk About Expected Ridership of Proposed Commuter Rail (Houston Chron, HPM) South Dallas Hoping New DART Rail Extension Will Bring TOD (Morning News) When Urban Form and Lack of […]

Metro Board Votes to Seek Federal Funds for 90A Rail Where Not Many People Are (HPM) All Options in I-35 Aesthetics Survey Include Big Ugly Freeway; Vegetative Shade Seems Nice (TXDOT) Increasing Capacity Is Main Goal of Both Options in I-35 Virtual Open House — You Can Comment (TXDOT) Reminder: Texas Hoping to Subsidize Fossil Fuel Industry Use of Trucks With at […]

Why Is San Antonio Still Building Narrow Four Foot Wide Sidewalks? (Mark Tirpak) General Motors and Lyft Could Test a Fleet of Robot Cars on Public Roads This Year (Tech Insider) You Too Can Be an Activist for $Billion Private High-Speed Rail Project (Texas Central) Police Have Not Pressed Charges a Month After Driver Killed […]

Mayor Pro Tem Lopez Says Transit Tax Diversion Is 100% of Richland Hills Road Budget (Star-Telegram) Texas Rep Cecil Bell Jr. Has a High Speed Rail Calculator That Does Not Know About TOD (Texas Insider) Public Hearings: TX – OK High Speed Rail Study & EIS Aug 9 in Laredo, Aug 10 in Austin, Aug 11 in Arlington (KEYE) …How Does This Proposal Relate […]