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Brent Thompson Was First DART Police Officer Killed in Line of Duty (DART) Sadness for Dallas (HPM) Unnamed, Uncharged Person in Car Kills Child in Parking Lot While Driving Wrong Way (KVUE) Mayor Sylvester Turner Met With Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx (Bill Kelly) Dallas Installs Trolley Street Signal Blocking Entire Sidewalk, Will Patch With Bulbout (Morning News) Is Houston Metro Point […]

DFW Regionalism Has Meant Subsidy of Suburbs, Next Mayor Can Make It Real (D Magazine) Turner Delaying Bond Vote Until 2017, After Pensions, But Promises “Next Level” (Houston Chron) TXDOT Conducting Real Life Experiment on Ability to Remove Freeways in Downtown Houston (KUHF) San Marcos Comes Out on Favor of LSTAR After Every Body Else Calls for […]

UTA Studying Downtown Dallas Walkability (City of Dallas) City of Austin Installs Hybrid Pedestrian Beacon Near School, Part of Priority Intersections (KEYE) City of Houston Proposes $150M for Greenways, $26M for Sidewalks, $800M Total for Complete Streets Over 5 Years CTRMA Wants You to Take the Oak Hill Parkway Survey on Aesthetics Considerations Austin BCycle Has a Wiki Up […]

Road Blogger Tory Gattis Believes in Latent Demand, Advocates for Seamless BRT (Houston Strategies) Nearly Every Person in Room Opposes Toll Road, Assumes TXDOT Will Build It Anyway (Texas Tribune) Is Austin Capital Metro’s Declining Ridership All Because of Infrequent “Rapid Bus”? (Statesman) Freeway Construction in Fort Worth Held Responsible for 20% Increase in Crashes (Star-Telegram) Progress North […]

Bike Around the Bay for 176.4 Miles on October 15 & 16 to Support the Galveston Bay Foundation Fort Worth Council Adopts Simple Registration – No Fingerprints – for TNC (KHOU) Express News: Replace LSTAR With Something That Will Actually Get SA – AUS Passenger Rail More Apartments Under Construction – 50,000 – in DFW Than Anywhere Else […]

Commission Removes Judge Doyal From Duties for Secret Holy Road Bond Talks (Houston Chron) Doyal, Chris Charlie Riley – Both Indicted – Still Listed as Members of HGAC Transportation Policy Council 1950s Critics Correct in Opposing the Interstate Highway System as a Form of Socialism (Houston Chron) Mark Tirpak: Car-Centric Breckenridge Parks Plan Should Refocus on Ped, Bike, & […]