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Pearland Police Officer Killed By Driver Who Swerved into Oncoming Lane at 3 AM (KHOU) TXDOT CityMAP Report Confirms Removing I-345 Is A Good Idea, Has This Drawing (Morning News) Get Austin Moving Holding Tuesday Morning Press Conference on “Progressive” Bond Proposal Repeat DWI Offender Gets Life Sentence for 9th Conviction (Houston Chron) Tell City of Austin That You Would […]

TransitCenter Analysis: Austin, SA, & FW “Offer No High-Quality Transit Whatsoever” Austin Planning Commission Joins Call for Removing SOV Focus From Bond Proposal (Monitor) Letters Opposing Proposed Segment B of the Grand Porkway Due July 11 (Swamplot) Bike Rides With Summer By Rail’s Elena in SA, Austin, and DFW This Fri & Sat (BikeTexas) All 3 DFW Regional Transportation Input Meetings Are in Mostly Car Dependent […]

TXDOT‘s 2015 “Texas Motor Vehicle” Stats: VMT Up, Traffic Deaths Steady at 3,531 Also: 550 Pedestrian Deaths, a 12.7% Increase from 2014 (TXDOT) Whether or Not TNC Drivers are Employees Is Now a #TXLege Issue for 2017 (Quorum Report) Driver Who Killed Elizabeth Lezama, 23, Still on the Loose in Houston (ABC13) Sun Metro Seeing Increase in Transit Use as […]

CEO Tom Lambert: Metro Working on BRT-Lite for Outer Westheimer (Not Of It) Driver Kills 14-Year-Old Boy Riding Bike — Austin Police Suggest Reflectors (KXAN) Family of Paige Balinski, Killed By Hit-and-Run Driver, Collecting Donations to Pay Funeral Expenses Austinites Believe That 1946 Ideas About Housing Development Should Block Density (MyStatesman) TXDOT Austin District Presented on Vision Zero […]

San Antonio’s New VIVA Bus Service to Cultural, Historic Places Started Operating Yesterday Adler’s Bond Proposal Assumes TXDOT’s $14B Budget Can’t Afford Urban Streets (Statesman) …A Better Modal Mix for $720M Has a Better Chance of Passing (Keep Austin Wonky) City of Houston’s Annual Report to Houston Coalition for Complete Streets Is Tonight at 6:30 pm How to Improve Texas’s […]

Texas Spending Billions on Toll Roads When It Should Be Investing in Flood Protection (CityLab) 100-Foot-Wide Section of Highway 6 Swept Away by Floods Near Crosby (Lonnie Pevey) Robert Rivard: The Time to Invest in Transit in San Antonio Is Now Hit-and-Run Driver Strikes Cyclist Paige Balinski, 23, From Behind, Inflicting Fatal Injuries (Click2Houston) Bryan/College Station Metropolitan Planning Organization Hiring a New Executive […]