• Texas Will Become the 47th State to Ban Driving While Texting (Star-Telegram)
• But Gov Abbott Asks #TXLege to Overrule Locals to Legalize Driving While on Phone Calls (KERA)
• …On the Same Day TXDOT Explains That Any Use of Cell Phones While Driving Is Not Acceptable
• Crash Kills Two Teens, 51-Year-Old Couple, And Causes Woman to Give Birth at 8 Months (Morning News)
• Laredo Woman Who Killed 8-Year-Old Girl in Wrong-Way Crash Charged With Manslaughter (LMT)
• Crash Involving an 18 Wheeler and a Cow Slows Down Highway 6 in Navasota (KBTX)
• DART Public Meetings on Proposed Fare Restructuring Continue

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• Tickets Still Available for TransitCenter Event in Austin Next Wednesday, June 14
• Hallelujah: Houston Metro Says Missouri City Commuter Transit Doesn’t Have to Be Rail (Impact)
• Developer Kills 75 Live Oak Trees to Clear View of Home Depot for Drivers on Freeway (NBCDFW)
• Texas Transportation Institute Moving Into Dangerous, High VMT Campus Location (Virtual BX)
• San Antonio’s Transguide Team Has Saved 61 Lives By Spotting Wrong-Way Drivers Since 2011 (TXDOT)
• Texas Transportation Safety Conference Starts Tomorrow in Irving, Registration Still Open
• Ride-Hailing App Fare Leaves Austin Upon Return of Uber/Lyft (Spectrum)

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• CapMetro’s Ride Hailing Experiment Is Ride-Sharing, Uses MetroAccess Drivers (Statesman)
• Report Finds Most Traffic in Rainey Neighborhood Caused By I-35 (Monitor)
• Entitled Texans Expect to Be Allowed to Cheat Property Tax System (KXAN)
• Tekita Marshall Killed Trying to Walk Across Five-Lane Road With No Safe Crossings (KLTV)
• Woman and Young Child Injured in Crash on 360 in Arlington This Morning (NBCDFW)
• ATD to Give Vision Zero Report Card and Annual Report Tonight at Ped Advisory Committee
• DART Hosting D2 Subway Public Meeting on June 21

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• Travis County Okays Using Affordable Housing Funds for Unaffordable Sprawl (Monitor)
• Leandor ISD Seeks to Pave Wildlife Preserve to Excuse Bad Location Decisions (TWC News)
• Speeding Driver Dies After Hitting Wall Along Road in Southeast Dallas (Morning News)
• Arlington Robot Shuttle Bus Will Replace the Walk From Parking Lots to Venues (GovTech)
• TXDOT Forced CTRMA to Socialize Costs of New Toll Road Flyover Connector ( Statesman)
• CTRMA to Use Mopac’s Much-Maligned Design-Build Process for 183 Widening (Impact)
• San Elizario Gets $184K From Texas Parks & Wildlife for Hike/Bike Trail (El Paso Times)
• Reminder: Large Texas MPOs Required to Livestream and Archive Meetings (Watch CCMPO)

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• Bexar County Judge Wants Boerne-to-Downtown San Antonio Commuter Rail (KSAT)
• Accounting Trick by #TXLege Means $2B Less for TXDOT Roads in 2018, Sort Of (Tribune)
• HB 931 On Governor’s Desk to Extend Utility Line Hike/Bike Trail Program (Houston Chron)
• Reconnect Austin’s I-35 Plan Is Running Out of Time (Towers)
• Uber Returns to Austin With UberPool Ride Sharing and UberAccess for People with Disabilities
• Oak Cliff Deck Park Over Freeway Inches Closer to Reality (Morning News)
• Texas Flush with Transportation Cash (Kent Reporter)

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• Houston Built Amazing Urban Park, But You Can’t Get to It Safely, Comfortably (Offcite)
• Trust for Public Land: Houston Near Bottom in Terms of Parks Accessibility (HPM)
• Architect Proposes Bars in Bayou Parks Along Hike/Bike Trails (Houston Chron)
• Houston Greenfield Sprawl Now Has Nature Amenity Instead of Golf (Houston Chron)
• With Failure of Bill at #TXLege, Astrodome Can Be Converted to Parking (Houston Chron)
• How Did the City of Austin Fare in the #TXLege? Not So Well (KUT)
• TXDOT Stakeholder Committee Will Decide 2022 Traffic Death Goal This Morning

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