• Oped: Houston Needs Walkable Neighborhoods. Now (Houston Chron)
• CAPCOG Explains: Opportunity Zones, Federal Program to Incent Transit-Oriented Development
• Tomorrow: NTX Transit Riders Opposing 20% Fare Hike at DART Board Meeting
• $100m Walk&Bike Bridge in Dallas May be Dismantled Before Opening (Dallas Observer)
• Just-Retired Round Rock Pastor in Critical Condition After Losing Family in Head-on Collision, GoFundMe Established (KXAN)
• Scooters, Bikes Potentially Provide Safe, Equitable, & Affordable Transportation Compared to Driving
• …But Dockless, Electric Bike & Scooter Share (DEBSS) Encounters Resistance at Every Turn (Austin Monitor)
• Environmental Commission Votes No on Proposed Sprawl Development (<2 Acres / Single Family House) (Austin Monitor)
• H-GAC Director Discusses Almighty Grand Parkway, Highway Safety Following Crashes (Houston Chron)

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• Austin Police, Travis County Sheriff’s Office Lead Texas in Punitive Citations for Driving Without License (Statesman)
• …Texas, However, Leads the Nation in Highest Speed Limits But Lowest Enforcement (Statesman)
• …Speeding Kills
• More New Sidewalks Coming to Fort Worth, Always a Good Thing
• The State of Texas Needs a Safe Passing Law, Leave At Least Three Feet for Cyclists (Stephen Ratke)
• Mayor Turner Appoints Teresa Morales to Replace Busgod Christof Spieler (Houston Chron)
• …Preorder His Book on Amazon!

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• Austin Removing Parking, Converting Downtown Street to Two-Ways After Delay (Towers)
• Regional Air Quality – Poisoned by Car Exhausts – Poses Health Risks for Houstonians (Houston Chron)
• Louisiana Launches Nation’s First Digital Driver’s License (Times-Picayune)
• Two Cases of People Crashing Automobiles into Austin Homes This Week (CBS Austin)
• City of Dallas Struggles to Open Bridge to Bicyclists (Morning News)
• Third Ward Is Home, TXRXLabs, LISC Houston Stencil Wayfinding, Context onto Columbia Tap Trail
• Galveston Driver Crashes Into Three Police Motorcycles, Officers Unscathed (Houston Chron)

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• Arbitrary Concept of Compatibility Restricts Transit-Oriented Development in Austin (Austin Monitor)
• …Despite Housing Crisis, Some City Council Members Proudly Champion This Inequitable Exclusion
• Oil Trucks Aren’t Using the Grand Parkway as Expected, So H-GAC Proposes $1B for SH 146 (HPM)
• Slideshow: The Worst HOA Rules in Houston. Our Favorite – No Cars in Driveways
• Three Arrests Made After Kyle Bicyclist Killed in Hit and Run in May (Spectrum)
• Shoal Creek Conservancy Presents Draft Plan of 30 Mile Active Transportation Loop (Austin Monitor)
• Ben Wear Reflects on 15 Years of Covering Transportation in Austin, Predicts VMT Tax by 2033 (Statesman)
• 15 Texans Were Killed in Alcohol-Related Crashes Last July 4 (Houston Public Media)

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Please be safe this July 4. We’re off tomorrow. See you on Friday.

• Continued Difficulties in the Process to Redesign Alamo Plaza (Rivard)
• Slideshow: VIA Expanding Services to Meet Growing Demand (SA Biz Journal)
• Austin City Council Rewrites Taxi Laws (Austin Monitor)
• Take DART to Fourth of July Firework Festivities (Morning News)
• All Hail the Latest Expansion of the Ever Growing Texas Highway System (Houston Chron) (HBJ)
• Bill Jordan: The Best Way to Solve Texas Traffic is Reducing Vehicle Miles Traveled (Morning News)

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• Thread: Farm&City Staff Are on a Multimodal Adventure to Dallas
• The Final One Thousand Texans for Transit Rally of June is Saturday in Dallas
• Trump Might Mess Up This Good Scooter Thing We Got Going On (Statesman)
• Austin City Council Moves Forward $20M for Sidewalks, $15M for Vision Zero in Bond (Statesman)
• …Also $50M for Rebuilding Bridge to Wealthy Enclaves in Other Cities (ABOR)
• Two More Days to Fill Out CapMetro’s Project Connect Survey
• Houston’s Memorial Park Moving Forward with Ending Subsidized Storage for Deadly Vehicles (Houston Chron)

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• “Making Dallas a Place Where People Want to Live” (DMag)
• City of Dallas OKs Electric Scooters, CM Kingston Takes First Legal Ride
• Video: Transportation Safety at Rice University (Raj Mankad)
• Dallas, This Saturday: Join Us for One Thousand Texans for Transit
• Travis County Tax Offices May Close Permanently Fraud at Motor Vehicle Department (KXAN)
• Construction Begins on San Antonio Pride Crosswalk (Rivard)
• Interim Port SA CEO Jim Perschbach Calls on Transit for Economic Development, Made Official CEO the Next Day

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• TxDOT, Harris County Claim to be Thinking About Public Transportation But Are Certain of $109.6m of Roadwidening to “Relieve Congestion” in Cy Fair (Community Impact)
• [Audio, 16 min] Are We Moving Toward A More Walkable Houston?
• Public Hearing for Alamo Redesign, Which Includes Car-Free Zone, Didn’t Go Well (Rivard)
• Free Robot Bus on Downtown Austin Circulator Route Coming This Fall (Monitor)
• Bicycle Festival Shelved Over Concerns of Parking in Downtown Austin Despite Over 75,000 Downtown Parking Spots (Monitor)
• CapMetro Evaluating Next Steps After Promising Pilot Program for Blind Riders (KUT)
• DART, Rowlett Embrace Dubious Service Program Instead of Traditional Fixed-Route Bus (Morning News)

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• Cities Enable State Level Roadbuilding by Barring Dense Infill (Tribune)
• Dallas Can Lead The Way Out of Sprawl, Part I (DMag)
• TxDOT Launches Faces of Drunk Driving Campaign
• H-GAC Begins Statewide Automated Vehicle Procurement
• CapMetro CEO Highlights Systemwide Enhancements, Declares “Focus on the Customer” (Monitor)
• …One of the Best Improvements to Transit Service is a Network of Dedicated Transit Lanes
• Feedback Focuses on Bikes, Transit for South Austin Corridor Plan (Community Impact)

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• City of Houston Hiring Bicycle-Pedestrian Coordinator, Application Closes This Evening
• Brief Demonstration Ride on El Paso Streetcar Restoration, Full Service Expected Later This Year (KFOX)
• Community Impacts of High Speed Rail From Dallas to Houston (Community Impact)
• Austin Teen Witnesses Driver Fleeing After Striking His Father Dead (KXAN)
• Read These Replies to TxDOT’s Tweet on Widening an Urban Thoroughfare
• Report on Robot Car Panel in Austin (Statesman)
• Everyday, Ten People Die on Texas Roads
• Saturday, Second Annual City Hall at the Mall in Corpus
• Austin Energy Preparing for Widespread Electric Vehicle Use (Monitor)

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• Kyle Driver Arrested for Hit and Run That Killed Cyclist in May (KVUE)
• Electric Scooters Hit San Antonio Streets (Rivard)
• CapMetro Adding Shade, Solar-Powered Displays at Bus Stops (Monitor)
• Free BCycle Trips for Pride, All Saturday in Houston
• 22,000 Surveyed for Houston Region Public Transportation Study (HPM)
• Houston Building One Billion Dollar Bridge with Toll Revenue (Houston Chron)
• Four People Killed in Crashes, One Suffers Incapacitating Injuries, All in One Day on State Highway 115 (MRT)
• Following Bikeshare Bonanza, Dallas Developing a Healthy Bike Culture (DMag)

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Hello friends, Streetsblog Texas is back. Please pardon the interruption. We were on a Vision Zero and transit advocacy tour of South Texas.

• Border Patrol Chase Leads to Crash. 14 Ejected, Five Dead, Five Charged with Smuggling (WTOP)
• Public Assets Sustainably, Responsibly, Equitably Managed, Making People Mad About Paying for Parking (KXAN)
• Public Meetings This Week on Alamo Plaza Redesign, in Spite Opposition from the GOP Platform (Rivard)
• Traffic Engineers Struggle to Curb Pedestrian Deaths (San Antonio Express-News)
• Austin Texas, Like Chicago, Struggles With Pedestrian Safety (WBEZ-Chicago)
• Dive Into VIA’s Draft Bus Rapid Transit Plan and Voice Your Opinion to Have an Impact
• DART Piloting New Tap Card Which includes Daily and Monthly Fare Capping
• Houston, San Antonio Celebrate Dump the Pump Day
• You Can Request a Creative Crosswalk Anywhere in Austin

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