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Houston Region’s Current Stock of Parking Spots Slightly Larger Than the 610 Loop (Jesse Thornsen) Here Is the Texas Sunset Commission Survey About the Texas Dept of Transportation Thursday, 9 a.m.: Texas Traffic Safety Task Force Presentation at TX Transpo Commission, 125 E 11th, Austin Patrick Kennedy: Why Texas Is Spending Too Much on Roads (Strong Towns) TTC, Sen […]

DWI Arrests Rose Slightly Compared to 2015 After Uber & Lyft Left Austin (KEYE) Is Anyone Recording Data on Wild West of Underground Ride-Hailing Happening in Austin? (Vocativ) San Antonio Took Over Fredericksburg Corridor From TXDOT, Could Focus on Sidewalks (ExpressNews) Houston Chronicle: Imbalanced Funding and Anti-Bike Policies Are Serious Equity Issue State Commission May Suspend County Judge Doyal for […]

Indicted! Secret Talks by County Judge, Commissioners, Tea Party PAC for Holy Road Bond (Courier) Off Duty, Drunk, Speeding El Paso Police Officer Killed Dane Keith Rutter on I-35 (Fox7) Uptown BRT Expected to Be Open to Passenger Service March 2019 (Houston Chron) Freeway Construction Delays Often Outweigh Brief Period of Free Flow Before Induced Traffic (Guidry) Vulnerable […]

Deadly Police Chase Started Because a Man Was Urinating in Public (Houston Chron) DART Has a Page Up With Everything It Wants You to Know About the Proposed D2 Project Austin Council Sends $720M Mobility Bond Prioritizing Corridors to Staff at 1:37 AM (KXAN) …Asks for $15 Million Dedicated to Priorities of Vision Zero Action Plan (City of Austin) …Suburban Council Members Allocate Half of Sidewalk […]

Presentations Now Available From TTI Texas Safety Conference Membership of TX Traffic Safety Task Force Revealed in TTC Comm Moseley’s Presentation …Which Proposes That TXDOT Goal Is to Reduce 3,533 Deaths to Zero in 10 Years (10% Every Year) FHWA Vision Zero Presentation Shows Houston as “Considering Vision Zero” (pdf) Austin & San Antonio Vision Zero Presentations How Will Amtrak Be Involved With Texas Central Private HSR? (Peter […]

You Can Tell Austin’s Capital Metro That You Want More Frequent Service Pedestrian Pete Calls for Prioritizing Walkability in Low Car-Ownership Areas (Free Press Houston) In Good Cities, “Traffic Congestion Is Entirely Irrelevant to the Daily Lives of Most People” (Chron) Austin Loses Smart City Challenge to Columbus, Ohio (KVUE) Casar and Get Austin Moving Drop Alternate […]