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• Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez Commits to a Reduction of Major/Fatal Crashes As a Priority in 2019
• A social justice case for walking and cycling (Congress for the New Urbanism)
• It’s Time to Fix Houston’s Dangerous Pedestrian and Bicycle Infrastructure (GovTech)
• Frisco Removing Rental Scooters from Its Streets 2 Weeks After Surprise Drop-Off (Morning News)
• Opinion: Frisco Was Right to Chase an Electric Scooter Company Out of Town (Morning News)
• Mayor Adler Clearly Indicates Land Use Code Rewrite 2.0 is a High Priority and It Shouldn’t Throw Away All the Good Work from CodeNEXT Process (Austin Monitor)
• San Marcos City Council Directs Staff to Pursue Vision Zero Strategy (Farm&City)

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• Austin’s Vision Zero: Traffic Deaths Slipping but Pedestrians Still at Risk (Statesman)
• Bar Employees Charged in Crash That Killed Young Houston Mother (Houston Chronicle)
• Austin, Texas, Transit Vision Includes Self-Driving Buses (GovTech)
• News Outlets Reprinting TXDOT Press Release Lobbying For Continued Focus on “Congestion Reduction”
• Capital Metro Offering Free Transit on New Years Eve Until 2:30am So You Don’t Drive Drunk
• CDC’s First Scooter Safety Study Will Take Place in Austin (Curbed)
• Rowing Clubhouse Could Easily Be Moved for Transit Expansion (CBS Austin)
• 2018 In Review: Houston’s Biggest Transportation Stories (Houston Matters)
• SA2020 Impact Report Luncheon, January 22

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• Austin Tech Alliance and Glasshouse Policy Hosting TX Lege 101, January 9
• Very Important: H-GAC Hosting Public Meetings on the Proposed 2045 Regional Transportation Plan
• Metro Presents Its Most Ambitious Plan Yet, Anticipates 2019 Bond Vote (Kinder)
• Leslie Juarez, 41, Killed After SUV Veers Off Highway, Slams into Tree (Fox San Antonio)
• ‘Future-proofing’ is how you say climate change in Texas (Grist)
• American Cities are Starting to Get Rid of Minimum Parking Requirements (Slate)
• Holidays a Horrid Time for Houston-Area and U.S. Roadway Deaths (Houston Chron)
• Rep. Joe Pickett, a Titan of Texas Transpo Policy to Resign for Health Reasons (Texas Tribune)

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• With Unanimous Vote, Cap Metro Takes Next Step In Plan For Future Of Austin Transit (KUT, Austin Monitor)
• Houston Metro Moving Toward $3B Bond Vote in Fall 2019 for 20-year Transit Plan (Houston Chron)
• People Over Parking: Planners Are Reevaluating Parking Requirements for Affordable Housing (APA)
• Why Apple Bet on Austin’s Suburbs for Its Next Big Expansion (CityLab)
• Razor Deployed Shared Seated Scooters in San Antonio Last Week (Rivard)
• City of Fort Worth X-Team to Offer Two Week Building Permit Review for $2,000
• Rebuilding a City from the Eye of a Child (CityLab)

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• The Pedestrian Strikes Back (New York Times)
• Mother dead, baby and grandmother injured after head-on crash in South Houston (Houston Chron)
• Duncanville Police Chief Robert Brown: Bigger Rigs Mean Bigger Risk on Congested Texas Highways (Morning News)
• Capital Metro Board Set to Move Forward Today with Project Connect Phase III (Agenda Packet)
• Tuscola mourns death of Mayor Robert Elkins and wife, Vondean, in crash near town (Abilene Reporter-News)
• Oklahoma City Streetcar Opens with Free Rides Through Jan. 5 (KFOR, NewsOK)
• As Cities Confront Climate Change, is Density the Answer? (Curbed)
• Council Hopes to Reduce Car Use with Two Initiatives (Austin Monitor)

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• Incoming House Democratic Transportation Chair DeFazio Proposing a National Pilot of a VMT Fee!! (Politico)
• What Would a City That is Safe for Women Look Like? (The Guardian)
• Report: How Land-Use Regulation Threatens the Future of Texas (Manhattan Institute)
• …Worried About High Rent in North Texas? Blame City Hall (Morning News)
• Out of Control: In Texas, the Cost of One Crash (Houston Chron)
• Austin, Texas Shows the Way to Plan and Design Transit Oriented Development (Planetizen)
• Governor Greg Abbott Joins TXDOT’s EndTheStreak Anti-Traffic Violence Campaign, but Uses Outdated “Accident” Term

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• Houston Metro’s Post Culberson “Moving Forward Plan A Plus” is Really Great
• …MetroNEXT Forward Plan Video – If Metro Didn’t Exist Video
• Video of the Presentation by Chair Patman at Greater Houston Partnership Event
• Police Engage Five Young People in High Speed Car Chase for Stealing Clothes (FW Star-Telegram)
• City of Arlington Planning to Stick With Plan to Not Have Public Transit (FW Star-Telegram)
• Survey and Comment Map on Proposal to Add Protected Bike Lanes to Shoal Creek Boulevard
• Houston Public Works is Doing an Awesome Intersection Retrofit at Houston Ave and White Oak (Critical Mass)

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• 2019 Texas Transportation Forum, January 7-8, 2019, in Austin
• Austin Has Elected a Strong Urbanist Majority to Council (Farm&City)
• Austin’s Making Progress On Climate Change Goals And Resiliency But Work Remains (KUT)
• Police Search for Driver of Deadly Hit-and-Run Crash in East Houston (ABC13)
• Man Killed Trying to Run Across Highway 6 in Area With No Safe Crossing for 3,500 Feet (Houston Chron)
• Areas With Mass Transit See Job Growth, Research Indicates (Texas Public Radio)
• DART Receives Federal Funding for Red and Blue Line Platform Extensions Project (Mass Transit Mag)
• TxDOT Beginning Plan for Transportation of Older Texans [in Rural Areas and Small Metros] (KRGV)
• The Woodlands Launches Bus Tracking App (Patch)

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• New Push to Make Neighborhood Streets in Texas Slower, Safer (CBS Austin)
• Vision Zero Advocates Look to Legislature to Help Reduce Traffic Deaths (Austin Monitor)
• Why is TEXRail planning to let its commuter train passengers ride for free? (FW Star Telegram)
• Civic-Engagement Platforms Have Their Uses, but They’re No Substitute for Public Opinion Research (Governing)
• Houston Named No. 2 Most Expensive Congestion in Nation, in Study Ignoring Much Higher Costs of Crashes (BizJournals)
• Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff Publishes Third Insider Book on San Antonio Growth Policies (Rivard)
• A New Neighborhood Group Hopes To Speak For Student Renters In West Campus, Fix Sidewalks (KUT)
• Might as Well Jump: Uber Wants to Roll 2,000 Electric Bikes Into Dallas (Morning News)
• Salud America Hosts Tweetchat Today at Noon CST on “Place-Based Health Disparities”

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• Check Out #MobilityDeviceAppreciation
• What Happens to Kid Culture When You Close the Streets to Cars (CityLab)
• Former Fort Worth Star Telegram Reporter Robert Cadwallader Has Died in a Rural One-Car Crash
• Road Traffic Deaths Are Now the Global Leading Killer of People Age 5-29 (World Health Organization)
• Systematic Car-Dependency is Injustice. Nonprofit Sues Texas Over License Suspensions (KUT)
• Don’t Lose Hope on The Trinity Park, Because Maybe, This Time, Dallas Will Get it Right (Morning News)
• …Van Valkenburgh Plan for Trinity River Park Is Six Flags for Rich People (Dallas Observer)
• …Harold Simmons Park Reveals a New Plan for the Trinity River (D Magazine)
• …Context: We Killed a Bad Toll Road and Now We’re Debating Details of the Walkable Park

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• Capital Metro Proposes Nine Substantial Changes to Project Connect Vision (Presentation)
• Capital Metro Votes Kids Ride Free, Forever (Austin Monitor)
• …New Williamson County Rep on CapMetro Board’s First Act: Ensure Home Schoolers Are Included (Caleb)
• Austin Council Mobility Committee to Receive Updates on Project Connect, ASMP, Scooters Today
• New Vision for Trinity River Includes a Series of New East <-> West Pedestrian Bridges (Morning News)
• How Long Have Houston Metro Buses Had USB Charging Plugs on All Seats? (Chris Valdez)
• Open House Today on Houston’s Seemingly Awesome Bagby Street Improvements, 5:30pm

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• Dallas Streets Not Yet Flooded With Delivery Robots Despite Planned Pilot Date (D Magazine)
• New AASHTO Green Book Encourages Use of Lower Target Speeds on Urban Streets (Dan Kostelec)
• …Cities, Counties, TXDOT: Apply to Host an ITE Training Speed Management Workshop
• New TexRail Commuter Train From Fort Worth to Airport Will Be Free in January (Tarrant Transit Alliance)
• Public Comment Open on Austin Region’s CAMPO Regional Arterials Plan
• Public transit is leaving many Houstonians behind [Analysis] (Houston Chron)
• There’s Actually a Solution for Scooter Injuries (Austin Politics)

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