• With Special Session Coming to End, #TXLege Declined to Weaken City Distracted Driving Laws (Express News)
• The People of Dallas Held a Second Line Funeral Procession for the Trinity Toll Road (Brandon Formby)
• Boerne and San Antonio Fighting Over Right to Pave Over Hill Country with Sprawl (Houston Chron)
• Alissa Walker on “Mansplaining the City” (Curbed)
• Hilarious Proposal: Car Dealers Are Being Left Out of Mobility Discussion (TAG)
• …Two of Five Members of the Texas Transportation Commission Are Car Dealers
• Next Draft of Austin’s CodeNEXT to Be Released September 15 (Austin Chron)

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• With Two Days Left in Special Session, Bill to Overrule Local Distracted Driving Bans Is Dead (Statesman)
• …AT&T Lobbyist Chose to Support HB 171 (to Allow Distracted Driving), Not HB 117 (to Prevent Deaths)
• Austin Transpo Dept Shifting Traffic Calming Program Toward Safe Design Speed, Away From Speed Bumps
• Texas Central Selects Firms to Build Houston-Dallas High Speed Rail Line, Money Still Needed (WFAA)
• Austin NIMBYs Prefer Auto Salvage Yard to Having the “Wrong Kind of People” Move In (Monitor)
• Renters Leaving Austin for Houston, Denver, and Seattle Seeking Greater Affordability (KUT)
• Judge Rules Austin Road Builder Doesn’t Have to Go Through Pesky Public Review Process (Law 360)
• Austin Council Members Want to Rename Confederate Soldier Streets (KUT)

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• Texas Rail Advocates Backing Sprawl Rail in Dallas as It Seems to Comes to An End (Peter LeCody)
• Austin Monitor Interviews Capital Metro Lead Planner Todd Hemingson
• Denton Rep Pat Fallon Doubles Down on Bill Legalizing Killing Protesters With Cars
• Austin Transpo Dept Director Spillar: Dedicated Transit Lanes on Drag Going Forward (Monitor)
• There Are Still Streets Named for Robert E. Lee in Austin (KVUE)
• Investors Seeking to Convert Houston’s Greenspoint Mall to Mixed-Use Neighborhood (Houston Chron)
• El Paso Women Killed in Crash With Jackknifing Trucks (KTXS)
• Children Killed in Crash With Allegedly Drunk Driving Father (Morning News)

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• The Secret Trick to Cutting Traffic: Charge for Parking Daily, Not Monthly (Seattle Times)
• Speed Played a Role in Trucker Careening Off Road and Killing Woman in Parked Car (News6)
• Capital Metro Leadership States Publicly That CAMPO Travel Demand Models Are Flawed (Monitor)
• CTRMA Board Member Nikelle Meade Helped Rescue Bicyclist Trapped Under Drunk Drivers’ SUV (Monitor)
• Capital Metro CEO Search Process Will Include Some Amount of Public Input (Community Impact)
• Robot Mini Buses Will Be Carrying Passengers in Arlington, Texas Soon – on Hike/Bike Trail (NBCDFW)
• Dallas May Shut Down Bars and Restaurants at Midnight Because of Parking (Dallas Observer)
• Yes, Austin Police Are Writing Tickets to People Riding Bicycles (Statesman)

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• How Angela Hunt Changed Dallas’s Mind About Its Divisive Riverside Toll Road (Tribune)
• Parks to Play In, Kick a Ball, Stuff Like That, Instead of Parks to Drive By and Look At (Dallas Observer)
• Fine Levied on Second CTRMA Leader Accused of Not Disclosing Business Interests (Houston Chron)
• …CTRMA Using Construction Staff to Support Local Businesses Affected By Road Expansion (CBS Austin)
• 16-Year-Old Driver Killed in Two-Car Crash in Gun Barrel City (KLTV)
• Humans of Austin Will Now Share Scant Sidewalk Resource With Delivery Robots (512Tech)
• The City of Houston Walkable Places Committee Talked About Some Great Stuff Yesterday
• Lyft’s Radical Experiment in Charging for “Free” Parking (Bloomberg)

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• Today, We Kill the Trinity Toll Road (D Magazine) Brandon Formby Is Live-Tweeting It
• Collin County Residents Fighting Highway That Could Cut Through Homes (Morning News)
• Texas Transportation Commission Approves Socializing Costs of Toll Road (El Paso Times)
• Check Out the Santa Fe Trail’s New Signage (The Advocate of Lakewood / East Dallas)
• New Bike-Share Systems Could Force Dallas to Finally Build Safe Bike Lanes (Morning News)
• Citizens Paint Stripes at Dangerous Dallas Intersection (CBSDFW), City Quickly Deletes It
• Fort Bend County Leadership to Try Selling Voters on a Roads-Only Bond (Houston Chron)
• Bike Houston Hosting Safe Passing Billboard Appreciation Ride, Tomorrow, August 10
• San Antonion Dept of Public Safety Ramping Up Education of Young Drivers About Distractions (mySA)
• City of Austin Mobility Bond Data and Transparency Website Is Live

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• Travis Commissioner Daugherty Pushing to Add One More Sprawl Road to Sprawl Subsidy Bond (Monitor)
• Houston Chronicle: Governor Abbott Should Drop His War On Cities
• Mayor Turner: Urban Areas of Texas Are Economic Engines of the State (Houston Chron)
• Suburban Developers Moving into Urban Houston Development Market (Houston Chron)
• City of Austin Wants More Drunk People to Get Off the Hook for Downtown Parking Tickets (CBS Austin)
• Negative Impacts of Expanding SOV Freeway Capacity for Houston’s Fifth Ward (Texas Housers)
• How and Why Road-Pricing Will Happen (The Economist)
• Car-Free in Houston, Visiting the City With No Zoning (Planetizen)

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