Carmel, Indiana, Shows Suburbs How to Go Big on Biking
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"We do not give property tax breaks to corporations. Instead, we invest in quality of life for all citizens."
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Man Dies After Crashing Car Into Ditch on High-Speed TXDOT Feeder Road (Morning News)
- Houston Metro Has $4.4 Million Available for Your Great Idea for Senior/ADA Access to Transit
- Houston’s Cigna Sunday Streets Fall #OpenStreets Events Will Not Be Cancelled. #HoustonStrong
- Capital Metro Expanding Pilot Ride-Hailing Service to Six Days a Week to Connect to Rail Station
- State of Texas Building Itself Walkable Urban Density With Massive Parking in Austin (Building ATX)
- Austin Car2Go Switching Entire Smart Car Fleet to Mercedes (BizJournals)
- Housing Markets Play a Key Role in the Racial Wealth Gap in America (CityLab)
- Only Five Days Left to Sign Up for BikeHouston Moonlight Ramble and Get T-Shirt
- Buses, Yes Buses, Are “the Hottest Trend in Transit” (Governing Magazine)
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Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- The Untold Story of How Angela Hunt Killed the Trinity Toll Road (D Magazine)
- TXDOT on Road Widening Rampage in Houston Region. Good Luck With That! (Community Impact)
- Help Find the Hit-and-Run Driver Who Put Skateboarder Ashley Martinez in the Hospital (KSAT)
- Poor Urban Planning of Municipal Utility Districts and Harvey Flood Victims (Houston Chron)
- New Transit-Oriented Development Kicks Off in Downtown Carrollton (Morning News)
- Dallas Part of Nationwide Rollout of Dockless Bike-Share Company Limebike (Venture Beat)
- Why DART May Cost Dallas Its Chance at Landing Amazon’s HQ2 (D Magazine)
- NCTCOG Seeks Transportation System Modeler II to Help Plan DFW Region’s Everything
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Nine States Sue Trump Administration for Blocking Climate Progress at U.S. DOT
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Presidents don't get to pick and choose which federal rules they comply with.
Would Zoning Change Houston’s Flooding?
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Are Houston’s development policies adequate or do they perhaps worsen the severity of flooding even in more typical storms?
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Houston Metro Looking at How TNC Companies Could Replace Taxi and Paratransit (HPM)
- Hit-and-Run Driver Killed Someone Riding a Bike on a Dangerous Feeder Road (Houston Chron)
- Lyft Driver Strikes Cyclist in Downtown Austin (KXAN)
- Austin “Progressives” Want Ballot Initiative to Maintain Segregation, Displacement (Monitor)
- Budweiser Now Paying Lyft to Drive Drunk People to and From Bars in Texas (GuideLive)
- Parking on Designated Bike Lanes… What’s Up With That? (BikeHouston)
- How Do You Live After Unintentionally Causing a Traffic Death? (New Yorker)
- How to Stop Texans From Texting Behind the Wheel (Morning News)
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Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Houston Bcycle Got Lots of Keep Houston Rolling Requests, Asking for More Donated Bikes
- Austin CM Greg Cesar Calls for More Density, Affordable Housing After Release of CodeNEXT 2.0 (KUT)
- Comments Due Today on CAMPO Regional Active Transportation Plan
- Today Is Car Free Day at Texas A&M San Antonio!
- Communities Are Embracing Development Near Transit (AARP)
- Harvey Caused a Boost in Houston Car Sales (HPM)
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The Campaign to Fix Atlanta’s Most Dangerous Street and Preserve Its Immigrant Cultures
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Can Buford Highway, the most dangerous road in Georgia, become a walkable place for the immigrant communities that call it home?
Is Infrastructure Spending Good for the Economy? It’s Complicated.
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Infrastructure spending produces a net economic benefit for society only if the project benefits exceed the costs.
How Urban or Suburban Is Sprawling Houston?
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Understanding the nature of Houston's sprawl is about figuring out what it really means to be urban.
Fort Collins Just Built Five Miles of Bikeway for Less Than $1 Million – Here’s the Trick
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The Colorado city is the latest to embrace America's most underrated type of bike facility.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Comments Due Tomorrow, 9/21, on CAMPO Regional Active Transportation Plan
- Gov Abbott Makes Odd Midterm Switch, Elevating Bugg to Chair Transpo Commission (Statesman)
- The Guardian Asks People With Disabilities About Their Experience of Accessibility in Cities
- Our Hearts Are With Our Neighbors in Mexico D.F.
- Steven Duong Is the Force Behind the Texas Hyperloop Proposal by AECOM (Morning News)
- Dallas Failed to Invest in Transit to Love Field, Now Spending $208M on Parking (Morning News)
- TXDOT Relying on Strava to Collect Data on Walking and Biking (eParisExtra)
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