Today’s Headlines

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  • Morning News: Dallas, Waiting for the Bus All Day, Can No Longer Have Mercy on DART
  • City of Austin Still Wants You to Help Crowdsource a Map of Bicycling Comfort Level
  • CAMPO, AAMPO Holding Joint Meeting in New Braunfels for TXDOT Facilitated Regional Discussion
  • Kickstarter Going to Raise Half the Cost of San Antonio PRIDE Crosswalk, Matching City
  • Kingwood Bike Mom Responds to Online Criticism From Crazy People (KHOU)
  • Ryan Young: Students Need Enhanced Nighttime Transportation (Daily Texan)

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  • Austin Environmental Groups Urge City Not to Limit People Living in Austin (Statesman)
  • Síclovía Draws Thousands to Broadway for Cycling and Other Exercise (Rivard)
  • [Mode]Shift Towards Justice: Jeff Tumlin Event at The Ginger Man in Austin Next Monday
  • San Antonio Removes Unsanctioned Crosswalk Paint With Furious Speed (Rivard)
  • …No Joke: San Antonio Still an Unsafe City for People on Foot (Rivard)
  • TXDOT Assumes We Will Still Drive Way Too Much on I-10 in 2030 (Houston Chron)
  • 2 Dallas Officers Injured by Drunk Driver Who Rear-Ended Squad Car (Morning News)
  • BikeHouston Will Be Creating a Pop-Up Bike Lane at Sunday Streets Gulfton
  • Number of Teens Killed in Car Crashes in Louisiana Drops By Half (WWL)
  • A Sneak Peek at the Shoal Creek / Hike & Bike Trail Connector (Austin On A Bike)

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  • Why Can’t Southern Dallas Have Its Own Mockingbird Station TOD? (Morning News)
  • As Bike-Share Programs Grow, So Does the Pretend ‘Bike Clutter’ Challenge (NBCDFW)
  • Gentrification Unfairly Gets a Bad Rap in Southern Dallas (Morning News Editorial)
  • Help Bike DFW Help Spokes for Folks at Wrench Day and Fix Up Some Bikes for Kids
  • People Who Hate Transit Continue to Hate Uptown BRT Under Construction (Houston Chron)
  • Sunday’s Síclovía to Feature New Inclusive Area for People With Disabilities (News4SA)
  • Cycling to School is Associated with Lower BMI and Lower Odds of Being Overweight (NIH)

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  • Road Spenders Working Hard to Ensure Nightmare Traffic Scenario for Montgomery County (Impact)
  • No, It’s Not Legal to Reserve Publicly Owned Parking for Yourself (KUT)
  • Rivard Report Crowdsourcing Map of Bike Issues Across San Antonio
  • Public Meetings Next Week for Alamo Area MPO Long Range Transpo Plan
  • Adding Lanes Won’t Reduce Congestion. So What Is TxDOT Doing on I-45? (Houston Chron)
  • TxDOT Wants Your Input on Bicycling in Laredo (TTI)

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  • Long Time CAMPO Chair Will Conley Steps Down to Run for County Judge (Hays Free Press)
  • CAMPO Approves Austin’s First Regional Active Transportation Plan (Monitor)
  • Study: Social Inequalities in Child Pedestrian Traffic Injuries in Austin (Journal of Transport and Health)
  • Austin City Council Seeks to Downzone Parts of East Side, Speed Up Displacement (Monitor)
  • City of Dallas Officially Studying Tearing Out the I-345 Freeway (NBCDFW)
  • Developer Planning to Add 8-Block Mixed-Use Development in Downtown Dallas (Morning News)
  • City of Houston Signs on to Goal of a Park Within 10 Minutes Walk of Every Home (Mayor Turner)
  • Capital Metro Presents Potential Designs for Light Rail or Dedicated BRT on Guadalupe (Daily Texan)

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A More “Resilient” Houston: What Does That Mean and How Do We Get There?

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As people in the Houston have transitioned from rescue and recovery to damage assessment and rebuilding, as people put their lives back together, a word has crept into more common usage: “resilience.” With experts recommending public policies and ordinary folks buying out Sheetrock at hardware stores, it is an appropriate moment to understand what the idea of resilience really means.

Today’s Headlines

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  • City’s Urban Transpo Commission Asks CapMetro to Ask City for Transit Lanes (Monitor)
  • Housing Affordability: A Supply-Side Tool Kit for Cities (McKinsey)
  • Texas Senate Transpo Leader Nichols Says Highway Expansion ROI is Now Over (Thomas Bamonte)
  • TTI Traffic Safety Conference Plays Major Role in Developing Safety Plan for Texas
  • Students ~70 Times More Likely to Get to School Safely When Taking a Bus Instead of a Car (NHTSA)

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