• Wichita Falls Resident Tom McCoy Eloquently Argues for Statewide Hands-Free Ban (KAUZ)
• Even the Houston Chronicle Is Confused About #TXLege Distracted Driving Actions
• Allyn West: Enough Talk, Make Houston Streets Safer With Infrastructure (Houston Chron)
• Metro Painting Light Rail Trains With Brighter Colors So People Won’t Run Into Them (HPM)
• Austin Leaders “Knew the Tollroad [183A] Was Going to Create a Lot of Traffic” (Community Impact)
• Austin Toll Roads Now $4.3B in Debt, With About 340,000 Trips Daily (Statesman)
• Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price and CM Ann Zadeh Leading a Walking Town Hall on Saturday

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• Mayor Adler Lays Out Three-Year Path to a Transformative Transit Vote in 2020 (Monitor)
• Houston Metro Board Chair Patman Establishes Sidewalk Connectivity Task Force (HPM)
• Comments Due Today on the Largest Transportation Project in Texas: Rebuilding I-45 in Houston
• …Christof Spieler Has Two Good Ideas: Consolidate Two Freight Lines & Erase More Freeway
• …Houston Council Member Amanda Edwards Calls for Prioritizing Transit
• Senate Passes SB 15 on Party Line Vote to Encourage Distracted Driving Statewide (Tribune)
• Senator Huffines Says Local Police Advocating for Hands-Free Bans Are “Provincial” (Statesman)
• House Transpo Comm Heard Opposing Hands-Free Bills This Morning, Left Both in Committee (Madelyn Edwards)
• 72-Year-Old Woman, Christopher Bussell, Dies in Crash Following Simple Mistake (KXAN)

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• Billboards With Message From Police on Safe Passing Ordinance Going Up Around Houston (HPD)
• Australian Developer Building Walkable Urban Building in Midtown (Houston Chron)
• New Bike Traffic Signals Installed Around Austin (ATD), But Oh, the Comments
• VIA Rapid Transit Survey Closes on August 5 — It Asks If Dedicating Street Space to Transit Is Okay
• NCTCOG Transit Survey Does Not Entertain the Idea of Dedicating ROW to Transit
• Driving More Than Two Hours a Day Makes You Dumber, Like Three Hours of TV (Independent)
• Austin’s Pedestrian and Bicycle Advisory Councils Accepting Applications for New Members
• TTI and Tech Firm Aruba Reimagining A&M Campus Bus Stops With Data on Where You Go (AD&P)
• Mayor Rawlings Open to Killing the Road, Tired of Decades-Long Divide in Dallas (Morning News)

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• SB15 — to Weaken Distracted Driving Laws — Now on Senate Floor Calendar and Could Get a Vote
• 75 People Registered in Opposition to the Bill, 11 Testified for More Deaths, Including AT&T
• Thursday: House Transpo Comm to Consider Both a Statewide Hands-Free Bill and a SB15 Companion
• VIA Installing Really Nice Bus Stops in San Antonio – More Than 1,000 New Bus Shelters (Rivard)
• Capital Metro Board Pushes I-35 TXDOT Agreement Back to September 24 (Monitor)
• TXDOT Listening to Ideas For I-45 Until Thursday. Is Adding Capacity Up for Debate? (Houston Chron)
• Attn TXDOT San Antonio: Only 58.9% of Texas Road Spending Funded Through User Fees (CityLab)

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