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By Jay Blazek Crossley | Jul 3, 2017 | No Comments

Houston Is the Example of How Letting Bigots Block Low-Income Housing Is Bad Policy (NYT)
19 Texas Uber Drivers Sue to Be Considered Employees (Morning News)
Morning News Real Estate Editor Hasn’t Read CityMAP & His Favorite Place Has a Walkscore of 16/100
Sprawl Welfare Recipients Who Cause Traffic Worry About Others Doing Same (Morning News)
Last Night Dallas DOT Claimed They Would Fix a Curb Ramp and a Crosswalk
Warning for Texans Hoping for Dem Sweep: In Louisiana, Democrats Love Building Roads Too (The Advocate)
People Get Mad When You Question Spending $14.5 Million on Freeway-Adjacent Bike Lanes (Statesman)
Driver Crashes After Blowout in Bexar County, Releasing 30 Venomous Snakes (Statesman)

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By Jay Blazek Crossley | Jun 30, 2017 | No Comments

Kinder Walkability Event Reignites Call for a Walkable United Way Event Space (Christof Spieler)
Developers Met With Mayor Turner and Planning Dept About Complete Communities (Sylvester Turner)
First Finished Project From Austin’s 2016 Bond Is a Sidewalk With a Ped Island, Serving a Kid in a Wheelchair (Fox 7)
Austin’s Black Population Is Growing Again (Monitor)
Austin Musicians Want to Keep It Weird: Affordability, Flexibility in Land Development Code (Monitor)
Capital Metro-Funded Charity Pays Nonprofit Ride Hailer to Connect Sprawl Residents to Health Care (Monitor)
Temporary Open Freeway Event Held for Texas Pigs (CBS Austin)

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Is a Walkable Houston Possible?

By Leah Binkovitz | Jun 29, 2017 | No Comments

Advocates say yes, but Houston faces some significant challenges.

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By Jay Blazek Crossley | Jun 29, 2017 | No Comments

Every New DART Board Member Is Prioritizing Bus System Reimagining (Dallas Observer)
Missing: A Morally Defensible Case for Restricting Residents Per Parcel in Austin (Car Free Austin)
Nobody at #TXLege Wants to File Abbott’s Bill to Force Cities to Increase Distracted Driving Deaths (Tribune)
Gary Hatfield, 71, Killed Trying to Walk Across Unwalkable I-30 in Sulphur Springs (MySSNews)
In the Uber/Lyft Dominated Future, Should Austin’s Nonprofit Ride-Hailing Convert to a Coop? (Jesse Basham)
San Antonio City Council Considering Transportation Fee, Like Austin’s (Express News)
ICYMI: Austin’s Capital Metro Has Already Won the July 4th Photoshop Marketing Contest

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Macon, Georgia, Striped a Good Network of Temporary Bike Lanes and Cycling Soared

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 28, 2017 | No Comments

The experiment shows that if you build it, they will come -- even in smaller cities without a strong culture around active transportation.

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By Jay Blazek Crossley | Jun 28, 2017 | No Comments

$600 Million Houston Bond Could Include Bike Plan Funding (Houston Chron)
Why Tomorrow’s DART Board Appointment Vote Is About More Than Cities and Suburbs (D Magazine)
Groundbreaking Ceremony Today for Plaza Saltillo Transit-Oriented Development (@CapMetro)
Why Is the Mopac Freeway Project Taking So Much Longer Than Planned? (KUT)
San Antonio’s VIA Launching Mobile App Today
Austin Film Society Showing Citizen Jane (Jacobs) June 30 – July 6

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By Jay Blazek Crossley | Jun 27, 2017 | No Comments

Austin’s Project Connect Advances Despite Lingering Concerns Over Key Details (Monitor)
Austin Mayor Adler and Mayor Pro Tem Tovo to Lead Walk and Talk on New Sidewalk (Austin Mobility)
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner Takes National Climate Change Leadership Position (Houston Chron)
ULI Study Suggests Moving Austin Homeless Shelter Out of Downtown (Fox7)
Harris County Commissioners Court Not Functioning as a Public Democratic Institution (Houston Chron)
Bexar County Commissioner Kevin Wolff, Who Drove Drunk With No Pants Last July, Elected Chair of Alamo Area MPO
Houston Metro Regional Transit Plan Listening Meetings Start Today at Metro HQ
Houston Has a Problem With Truck Drivers Hitting Bridges (Houston Chron)

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What Do Drivers Really Think of Cyclists?

By Stephen Miller | Jun 27, 2017 | No Comments

There's ample research out there backing up the safety benefits of streets with protected bikeways and slow car speeds. But what about the critically important yet less tangible factor of individual attitudes -- how does the mind of the person behind the wheel affect driver behavior toward cyclists? A new report from Portland State University looks at the question.

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By Jay Blazek Crossley | Jun 26, 2017 | No Comments

CapMetro Board Approves Project Connect Phase II, But Adds Oltorf & Pleasant Valley (Monitor)
Across All Levels of Income, Higher Rent Equals Lower Transportation Costs (CityLab)
Houston’s Bayou Greenways and Buffalo Bayou Park Join Newly-Created High Line Network (Kinder)
San Antonio CM Robert Treviño Wants Texas’s 2nd Rainbow Crosswalks Before Pride on July 1 (TPR)
Hit-and-Run Driver Killed Josie Betancourt, 63, Trying to Walk Across a Terrifying Speedway (Valley Central)
Public Workshops for Phase II of VIA Rapid Transit Corridor Studies Coming Soon
Dallas Bike Ride Is Kind of a Ciclovia But It’s Not Free — November 4
Nominate the Best and Worst Bus Stops in Austin (KUT)

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Project Connect: Why Oltorf and Pleasant Valley Should Jump Into Phase II

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Jun 23, 2017 | No Comments

Austin’s transit agency, Capital Metro, is engaging in a long term transit planning process that could lead to future light rail lines, bus rapid transit, and enhancements to existing high capacity transit. Project Connect 2.0 follows on the failure of the 2014 bond referendum that could have built Austin’s first light rail line. Many felt … Continue reading "Project Connect: Why Oltorf and Pleasant Valley should jump into Phase II"

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Downtown Austin’s Parking Crunch Can Be Solved Without Adding Tons of Parking

By Stephen Miller | Jun 23, 2017 | No Comments

Cities and towns are constantly fretting about downtown parking. But what they often perceive as a "parking shortage" isn't caused by a lack of parking -- it's the result of poor management of the parking they already have. The upshot is that many cities, seeking cheap and plentiful car storage, pursue policies that make their parking and traffic problems worse, not better. Now a downtown Austin business coalition aims to chart a better course.

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