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TAG Houston Says Paradigm Shift = Not Just Roads, But Lots of Road Spending (Houston Chron) President of Dallas Fed Rode a DART Bus for 3 Hours to Experience How Poor People Live (Observer) San Antonio Council Believes They Will Soon Be Out of Compliance on Clean Air Act (SA Tomorrow) Two Roundtables Coming Up to Discuss […]

Austin’s Prop 1 Defeated, Uber and Lyft Say They Will Cease Operations Today (Texas Tribune) Lyft Suspends Austin Service, Uber to Follow (Statesman) Man Charged With Homicide for Killing a Pedestrian at 60 MPH, Fleeing Scene (Star Tribune) 5 People Killed in Head-on Crash Near Dripping Springs (Statesman) The Old, Mysterious Buffalo Bayou Water Cistern Will Open May 13 (Houston Chronicle) […]

Austin Bond Oversight Commission Votes No on Bike & Sidewalk Plan Recommendation (Monitor) SA Bicyclists: Ride VIA Metro for Free & Get Free Bike Repairs TODAY at Walk & Roll Rally Waco City Council & MPO Support TX High-Speed Rail (TexasCentral) Shikun & Binui Closes Deal to Build $1B Toll Express Lane Mega-Project in Houston (AZOBuild) Texas A&M to Redevelop […]

City of Houston Now Posting Safe Passing Ordinance Signs (Critical Mass Houston) TTI Claims Multimodal LOS Model They Are Developing for El Paso Is Better than ITE’s (TTI) Dallas Assistant City Manager in Charge of Trinity Road Might Leave for McKinney (Morning News) Dallas Faces Classic “Where Do You Tell the Europeans to Go Shopping” Problem (D […]

City of Houston Seeks Engineers to Study Benefit of Downtown Stop for Bullet Train (Chron) Firms Competing to Conduct Bullet Train Study Have Until May 27 to Apply to Houston Public Works Mayor Turner to Give First State of Mobility Address on May 17 (TAG) City and County Approve $10M for Brand New Parking Crater in Downtown SA […]

Houston Parks Board Borrowed Google Trekker Pack and Walked to Add Trails and Parks to Streetview (HPB) Dallas Morning News Does Not Think Dallas Should Pay for Infrastructure By Borrowing Let’s All Make Fun of Austin’s Ride-Hailing War, But It’s Really a Warmup for #TXLege (CityLab) Lyft Reminds Everyone That They Already Left Houston in 2014 Over Fingerprinting […]