Today’s Headlines

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  • Report Concludes That Parking Is Too Cheap in Downtown Austin (BizJournals, Monitor, KUT)
  • San Antonio’s Alamo Area Metropolitan Planning Org Calls for Vision Zero (AAMPO)
  • Broad Support for Austin Bond, Even Though It Could Remove Car Lanes (Statesman)
  • Kroger Building a Mixed-Use Super Market With Apartments in Downtown Dallas (Morning News)
  • El Paso PD Increasing Enforcement to End Traffic Fatalities in Vision Zero Void (El Paso Times)
  • Seven Car Pileup on San Antonio Freeway Kills One Person (News4)
  • CAMPO Mtg to Propose Grid of Safe Streets as Part of 183 Freeway Project Tonight (Austin Mobility)
  • TTI Conducting Austin Region Transportation Network Company (Uber/Lyft) Survey
  • TXDOT Safety Video Implies 1 Death a Day; Actual Rate: 10 Deaths a Day

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  • Austin Passes $500M Complete Streets Bond to Support Transit-Oriented Development (Statesman, KUT)
  • Hays County Approves $131M Roads-Only Bond to Encourage Sprawl (Statesman)
  • What’s Wrong With Comparing Seattle to Houston? (StrongTowns)
  • You Can Now Fill Out a More Detailed Survey for the Travis County Transportation Plan
  • Construction Begins on SH45SW Toll Road to Sprawl Austin More, Increase Traffic (KXAN)
  • H-GAC Transportation Policy Council Approved New MOU That Includes Performance Based Planning
  • The Texas School Financing System Requires Urban Areas to Finance Suburban and Rural Schools (TEA)

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  • Get Out and Vote Today!
  • Smith County Judge Resigns for Violating Open Meetings Act Over Red Light Cameras (Longview News)
  • Montgomery County Judge, Commissioners Headed to Trial for Similar Violation for Road Bonds (Houston Chron)
  • Waco Police Sgt: People Who Drive Distracted Past Fatal Crash Scene Should Be Ashamed (KCEN)
  • Is MLK Blvd Being Reconstructed in Violation of Houston Complete Streets Policy? (Tracy Stephens)
  • Flawed CAMPO Population Forecasts Used as Main Evidence to Lobby for Hays County Road Bond
  • Lawyers Try to Explain Current State of Texas Transportation Funding (Texas State Bar)
  • Capital Metro Tweaking Bus System Reimagining Based on Community Feedback

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How the Accommodations We Make for Cars Impose Huge Costs on Cities

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Drive-thrus and parking lots are bad news for a city’s tax base. Image via Streets.mn Wide highways, big parking lots, dangerous intersections designed for speed — there are a lot of downsides to all this car-centric infrastructure, including the way it saps the fiscal health of cities. Bill Lindeke at Network blog Streets.mn lists seven, from the erosion of the local tax [...]

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  • Streetcar Project Got Scammed Out of $3.2 Million Through Email Phishing (El Paso Times)
  • Kinder Study: Share of “Poor” Neighborhoods in Houston in 1980: 9%; in 2016: 39% (KHOU)
  • City of Sugar Land Will Grow From 87,000 to 117,000 With Annexation of Sprawl MUDs (Houston Chron)
  • City of Austin Adopts Age-Friendly Austin Plan With Focus on Improving Pedestrian Environment (KUT)
  • Rep. Ron Simmons Tells High-Speed Rail Opponents That State Law Already Allows It (The Eagle)
  • Houston Metro, Other Transit Agencies Give Free Rides Today and Election Day For You to Go Vote
  • Bugg: Continuing 50-Year Strategy of Continuously Widening I-45 Will Work This Time (Houston Chron)
  • Will Dallas City Hall Fix Streets or Pensions First? (Morning News)
  • …Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner Chose Pensions First — Time for the Paradigm Shift? (Houston Chron)

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  • TXDOT Adding a Lane on Each Side of Katy Freeway by Restriping Direct Connections (Houston Chron)
  • Construction Beginning on Private Toll Road in the Middle of 288 in Houston (ABC13)
  • TTI Poll Results: Investing Vastly More in Driving Than Transit Doesn’t Yield Good Transit (Houston Chron)
  • Austin City Council Asks for Capital Metro to Waste Money on Parking, Help Sprawl Jobs More (Monitor)
  • TXDOT Conducting Live Experiment This Weekend of Simply Removing Pierce Elevated (Houston Chron)
  • City of San Antonio Asks Public to Come to Sustainability Summit to Contribute to Policy Solutions (Rivard)
  • Study Shows That High-Speed Rail Connecting Dallas to Houston Would Be Cool (Texas Rail Advocates)

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  • Austin Neighborhood Tried to Manipulate Traffic Count at Intersection (Dan Keshet)
  • After Success at ADA Compliance at Stations, Capital Metro Focusing on  Shelters (Monitor)
  • Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Woman on High-Speed TXDOT Feeder Stroad (Statesman)
  • San Antonio Planning Commission Gets “Adequate” Parking, Likely Causing Traffic (Express News)
  • British Reporter Profiles Houston to Question US Ability to Kick Driving Addiction (Guardian)
  • City of College Station Bans Distracted Driving and Biking, But Not on Campus (TAMU Today)
  • Dallas Raises $23M in Private and Non-City Funds for 50 Miles of Urban Trail (The Loop)

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