• OpEd: A Third Reservoir for Houston Could Enable Roadbuilding, Sprawl at Expense of Safety (Houston Chron)
• El Paso to Install First Two-Way Bike Lane, Concerns Remain Over Adequate Width, Safety (KVIA)
• Four Young Men Killed in I-20 Head-on Collision (KCBD)
• Driver Kills 11-Year-Old During Gun Violence Walkout, Released Without Charges (KCBD)
• City of Pearland Exploring Options to Provide Public Transportation (Community Impact)
• Metro to Release Houston-Region Transit Vision This Summer (Community Impact)
• Austin’s New Dockless Scooters Haven’t Caused Mayhem As Some Had Feared (Monitor)

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• SAS, with 3,000 Employees, Joins Movability Austin to Reduce Single-Occupant Vehicle Trips
• Drivers Send Texas House Transpo Committee Mixed Messages, Decrying Both Congestion & Tolls (KVUE)
• State Lawmakers Unaligned with Houston Region Elected Officials on Transportation Projects (HPM)
• DFW RTC Members Invite State Officials to Experience, Perhaps Embrace Toll Lanes (DMN)
• SA Millennials Eager to Work with ConnectSA to Modernize City, Bring Robust Transit (SA Current)
• 18 Wheelers in Houston, Dallas Burst Into Flames This Morning, Blocking Highways – No Serious Injuries
• Fort Worth Contemplating Robot Car Pilot, No Mention of Safety Considerations (Star-Telegram)
• Houston’s Deed Restrictions Do Not Function as Zoning (Market Urbanism)
• This Sunday, in Austin: Sustainable, Equitable Growth With Jay Blazek Crossley

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• Houston Office Space Vacancy Rate Highest in 20 Years (Houston Chron)
• … 320,000 Houstonians “Need Affordable Housing” (HPM)
• City of Austin Audits Bridges. All Safe, Top 5 Identified for Better Bike/Ped Service (KXAN)
• OpEd: Increased Mobility Options Are Great – But Students Deserve Good Transit, Too! (Daily Texan)
• Room for Improvement in Dallas’ Pedestrian Services (DMag)
• I-35 Toll Lanes Blocked by Lawmakers (KXAN)
• Deloris Douressaux Killed by Fleeing Driver While Trying to Cross Neighborhood Intersection (Kens 5)
• Austin City Council Mobility Committee Advances Region-Wide High-Capacity Transit Network (Monitor)
• City of Dallas Responds to Residents’ Concerns Over Dangerous Intersection (DMN)
• San Marcos Passes Comprehensive Land Use Code Rewrite (ABJ)

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• Austin City Council Mobility Committee Adapting to New Dockless Reality (Monitor)
• Mayor Nirenberg Touts New Mass Transit Nonprofit as Economic Revitalization Tool (SA Biz Journal)
• Mixed-Use, 975 Housing Unit Development Rejected To Preserve View of Arts Center That Doesn’t Exist (Rivard)
• Jeffrey Moore, Founder of SATX Social Ride, Talks Safety & Local Bike Culture (Downtown SA)
• TXDOT, CAMPO, Drivers, Mull Over Best Approach to Widen 5 Lane Road (Statesman)
• $127m in TXDOT, Hunt County Transportation Spending Limited to Drivers, Nothing for Transit (Herald Banner)
• … Nothing Compared to Collin County’s Potential $671m Bond – Nothing For Transit, Sidewalks, or Bikes (Community Impact)
• Missouri City City Council Welcomes New Bus Routes (Community Impact)
• Free Rides All Summer for K-12 Houston-Area Students

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• Lawmakers Insist Society, Not Drivers, Should Pay Costs of Driving (Houston Chron)
• San Antonio Considers Adopting Master Plan to Address 1,900 Miles of Missing Sidewalks (Rivard)
• City of Austin Explains Transportation Demand Management, Impacts Thereof
• Austin Fast-Tracks Dockless, Electric Bike & Scooter Share (DEBSS) Regulations (Monitor)
• …. With San Antonio Next in Line for DEBSS (Rivard)
• Small $15m Bond is the First Step Towards A Citywide Rail & BRT Network (Monitor)
• Friends of J.J. Brooks Object to Officials Blaming Him for His Own Death While Cycling (KPLC)
• San Antonio Planning Nerds: Alamo Area COG Hosting Planning & Zoning Workshop, April 20
• Mayor Turner, Harris County, Partner Again for Safer Streets. This Time, $15.5m for Bike Lanes (HPM)
• San Antonio: Public Meeting Next Wednesday to Guide $10m Fredricksburg Road Bond

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• CapMetro CEO OpEd: Project Connect Will Serve Austin for Generations to Come (Statesman)
• Houston Planning Nerds: H-GAC Hosting Interactive Seminar Series, Sign Up for April 26 Workshop
• Heavy Oil & Gas Trucks Causing Millions of Dollars in Damage to Rural Texas Roadways (Texas Trib)
• Denton County Transportation Authority Providing Free Rides to Festival to Alleviate Parking Woes (Denton RC)
• Toll Lanes, Dockless, Electric Scooters, & Grade Separations: Austin Transportation News Roundup (Statesman)
• Progress Report on Houston’s Dangerous Apartment Epidemic (HPM)
• San Antonio Trying to be Smart about being a Smart City (Rivard)
• Tonight: City of Austin Community Event on Dockless, Electric Bikes & Scooter Share

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• Houston Completes Major Bayou Greenways Connection, Party on Saturday
• DFW’s MPO, NCTCOG, Approves Study of High-Speed Rail from Fort Worth to Laredo (Star-Telegram)
• NCTCOG Hoping to Use Toll Lanes to Finance Latest Round of I-635 Expansion (DMN)
• DART Needs to Pursue Transit-Oriented Development, Affordable Housing on Its Vacant Lots (DMN)
• A&M Opens Center for Infrastructure Renewal (HPM)
• Jeff Williams Speaks Out On Getting Hit by a Driver in a Work Zone (KLTV)
• Podcast: What Can SA Mayor Nirenberg’s Mass Transit Nonprofit Accomplish? (Rivard)

• Denton County Transportation Authority Says I-35 Expansion Has Discouraged Transit Ridership (Denton RC)
• San Antonio Improving Safety by Converting Streets to Two-Ways (MySA)
• Mayor Turner, Parking Management Dept, Act on Tweet Complaining About Trucks Parked in Bike Lane (C-Money)
• Man Killed Crossing I-35 (Statesman)
• Third Fatal Crash in 2 Months Along FM-620 (Statesman)
• TXDOT Hosting Awareness Week Highlighting 200 Texans Killed Last Year in Work Zones (Herald Banner)
• Montgomery County Extending Aggie Highway 4 Miles, With Tolls (HPM)
• Driver Kills Houston Bicyclist, Released Without Charges (Houston Chron)
• At Least $11m in Roadway Expansions West of Austin (Community Impact)

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• Metro Operator Benita Johnson Sets the Bar for Human Interaction (Houston Chron)
• San Antonio Mayor Nirenberg Announces Mass Transit Nonprofit, “ConnectSA” (MySA)
• Ryan Madden Charged with Agg. Assault with a Deadly Weapon for Ramming People with Car (Statesman)
• Houston Sculptor David Adickes Bringing New Art Installation to I-10 (Houston Chron)
• Why Does TXDOT Claim 500-Foot I-45 Widening Will Improve Air Quality? (Houston Chron)
• Public Advocates Ask CAMPO for $1m to Fund Multimodal Mobility Projects (Austin Monitor)
• Cause Uncertain, But Two More People Killed in Crash (DMN)
• Pedestrians, Bicyclists Voice Safety Concerns to Bryan-College Station MPO (Eagle)
• Brief Survey: Advocate for Safe Streets, Sidewalks for San Antonio’s Next Annual Budget

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• Driver Crashes into Two Students in Front of High School, Flees (KXAN)
• Two Killed in Head-on Collision in Midland (NewsWest9)
• Driver Kills Self, Injures Passenger in Bus Stop Crash (KXAN)
• Motorcyclist Struck, Killed by Two Different Drivers (Houston Chron)
• …Anyway, Traffic Deaths Continue to Rise – Can the State of Texas Invest in a Safer Future? (TribTalk)
• Dallas Mobility Committee, Bike Share Companies, Stuck on Implementing Regulations (DMN)
• Bexar County Boasts Least-Polluted Air of Texas Metros (Rivard)
• North Dallas Suburbs Steadily Building Apartments (DMN)
• VIA Pursuing Two Mixed-Use, Transit-Oriented Development Projects (SA Biz Journal)
• CPPP Recommends Higher Frequency DART Routes To Address Inequity (DMN)
• Survey: Ask for Enhanced Mobility Along the Guadalupe / N Lamar Corridor

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• Next Monday, 10am, Austin: TXDOT Hosting Statewide TIP Public Hearing
• Austin Preparing for Multibillion Dollar Transit Vote in 2020 (Statesman)
• FTA Awards $264m for Bus Projects, $10.5m (4%) for Texans (8.7% of Americans) (Planetizen)
• Arnulfo Castro Crashes SUV Into Home, Exploding Gas Line, Injuring 5 (MySA)
• City of Dallas Mobility Committee Exploring Dockless Bikeshare Regulations Today (Ken Kalthoff)
• TXDOT Begins Multiyear I-45 Traffic Study (Community Impact)
• Project Submitted to Convert Downtown Austin Parking Lot to Mixed-Use Tower (Towers)
• 3 Austin Council Members Propose Housing Justice Agenda, with Housing Near Transit (Texas Housers)
• Survey (English/Spanish): How’s Your Experience with DART Light Rail Been?
• Christof Spieler’s Book is Available “Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit”

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• New TXDOT Campaign to Curb Distracted Driving, Which Kills 9 People and Injures 1,000 Every Day Nationwide
• Construction Beginning on Loop 610 Dedicated Transit Lane (Houston Chron)
• CAMPO Recommends Funding Regional Transportation Demand Management Study, But None of the Proposed TDM Projects (Movability Austin)
• Dockless Electric Scooter Share Launches Small Pilot in Austin (Austin Monitor)
• Driver Crashes into 18-Wheeler, Killing Truck Driver. Truck Left Hanging Off Freeway (WFAA)
• CapMetro’s Frequency-Oriented Redesign, Cap Remap, Coming in June
• Another Reason Not to Drive: Houston Ranked Most Hostile Market for Car Towing, Dallas Number 2 (HPM)
• Podcast: From Houston Matters, Establishing Responsibility When Robot Cars Lead to Death

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