• NextCity Oddly Portays Houston’s Plan to Build 12.5 More Miles of Light Rail and 34 Miles of BRT
• Still Smarting From Uber, Cities Wise Up About Scooter Data (Wired)
• San Antonio Council Member Rey Saldaña Challenged to Ride the Bus for a Month, Then Fights for Transit Funding, and City of San Antonio Just Budgeted $10 million for VIA to Increase Frequency, While Ridership Seems to Be Increasing (Salud America)
• Scooters Carried An Average of 4,161 Trips Every Day in July in Austin, No One Died (Monitor, Statesman, KVUE)
• Woman Driving the Wrong Way Crashes into Downtown Dallas Restaurant, No One Harmed (Morning News)
• Tickets Still Available for Austin Chamber Future of Regional Mobility (Robot Bus) Summit on Monday.

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• How West 6th Was Accidentally Fixed for the Age of Scooters (and How to Keep it Fixed) (Austin On Your Feet)
• Out of Control: Houston is ‘ground zero’ for drunken and drugged driving (Houston Chron)
• …City of Houston Requires Bars to Provide Parking (Big Red Dog)
• San Antonio Downtown Developer Asking For Permission to Convert Some Parking to Parklet (Rivard)
• Applications Open for a Seat on Capital Metro’s Access Advisory Committee
• Patrick Kennedy is Posting All Kinds of Interesting Analysis of Newly Released Commute Data
• StrongTowns CurbSide Chat in Arlington October 3 – With Parking Instructions
• StrongTowns North Texas Regional Summit in Plano, October 3 – 5

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• CodeNEXT or None, Austin Has an Identity Crisis (StrongTowns)
• City of San Antonio Gets National Recognition for Health Equity Efforts (Rivard)
• Smart Cycling Complete Class in Arlington, Oct 6 (BikeDFW)
• Galveston’s Trolleys Are Still Being Repaired From Hurricane Ike in 2008 (Galveston Daily News)
• UT Researchers Attempt to Identify Neighborhoods Experiencing Gentrification (Statesman)

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• Houston Coalition for Complete Streets Annual Meeting, Next Wed, Sep 26
• Street Safety Summit by LINK Houston and Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Next Thu, Sep 27
• Public Meeting on 290 HOV Lanes Off Peak Policy, Trying to Retrofit Mistakes on Just Finished Highway
• Students Face Overcrowding on Buses Foollowing CapMetro Remap – ie, Ridership Seems Up (Daily Texan)
• Everyone Faces Overcrowding on Car Priority Lanes Following Decades of Subsidy, Policies Enforcing Lifestyle Choice
• Beyoncé and Jay-Z Fans Can Bear the Traffic by Taking Metro for Free (ABC13)
• Cap Metro: Key to High Capacity Transit is Dedicated Right-Of-Way (Monitor)
• Traffic Death Toll in Houston No Shock to People Who Drive A Lot (Houston Press)
• Analytics Tool Helps Improve Traffic Planning in Austin (GovTech)

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• Proposed $750 Million Roads Bond Only Beginning of Potential $13 Billion Nightmarish Mistake for Collin County (Morning News)
• DCTA Proposes 121 Commuter Bus Service With “Lyft Zones” to Link Lewisville and McKinney (Community Impact)
• Texas State University, City of San Marcos to Launch VeoRide Bike-Share Program (Community Impact)
• Community Wants Justice and Infrastructure Improvements for Teen Killed while Riding Bike in Mercedes (Valley Central)
• Arlington Has a Vision for Mass Transit that Doesn’t Involve City Buses (ArsTechnica)
• Texas Central is $300 Million Closer to Dallas Houston High Speed Rail (Morning News)
• Movability Webinar to Teach Austin Employers How to Reduce SOV Trips, Sep 25
• Are E-Scooters Key For Better Bike Lanes In San Antonio? (Texas Public Radio)
• A Child Was Hit By a Person Driving a Car This Morning in Amarillo (My High Plains)

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• Connecting 11 Cameron County Communities to Boost Health and Tourism (Texas Public Radio, Texas Standard)
• Watersheds and Walkability: Watchwords for a Resilient Houston (Texas A&M Coastal Watershed Program)
• Buses Do the Heavy Lifting in Likely Long-Range Houston Transit Plan (Houston Chronicle)
• Mode Activists Mad at Other Mode Activists for Not Being Mad Enough in Transit Fight (The Austin Met)
• Intoxicated 20-Year-Old Drives Truck into Construction Crane, Killing Worker (Morning News)
• Man Walking Along Loop 820 Struck and Killed by Multiple People Driving Vehicles (Morning News)
• Ben Carson and HUD Get Ready to Take On the Nimbys (Bloomberg)

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• Using Design, Austin Advisory Council Looking to Lower City Speeds to 35 mph (CBS Austin)
• Top Traffic-Death Rate Stems from Houston’s Commuting Culture and Infrastructure (Texas Standard)
• Houston Chronicle Editorial Board: Ditch Houston’s Burdensome Parking Regulations
• Austin Council Approves Budget Without Meeting Promises of Sidewalk Master Plan / ADA Transition Plan
• Joint Capital Metro Board / Austin City Council Meeting on Modes (Robot Bus or Rail) Friday at Noon
• Houston Sunday Streets Will Be in the Near Northside, October 7
• Houston Needs a Swimming Hole Feasibility Study Almost Finished, Slip N Slide Party

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• Governor Abbott Wants #TXlege to Ban Cities From Using Red Light Cameras  (Houston Chron)
• …in contradiction of the Texas Strategic Highway Safety Plan
• Developer to Build Mixed-Use Center on Site of Palace Bowl, Preserving the Bowling Lanes (Houston Chron)
• Bunching is for Bananas, Not Buses: Dispatches from Austin (TransitCenter)
• CAMPO Webinar on Available 5310 FTA Funding for Mobility for Seniors, Wed, 10am
• Sidewalk Safety Concerns Mount in the Wake of Deadly Upper Valley Hit-and-Run (KVIA)
• Climate Change Drives Bigger, Wetter Storms — Storms Like Florence (KUT)
• A Forty Year Old Man Was Killed This Morning Walking on Parmer Lane (Statesman)

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• Driver May Get Citation For Failing to Yield After Driving into Two Teenage Women in Crosswalk (Houston Chron)
• Professor Klineberg Says Harvey Changed Houstonian Attitudes about Climate, Development (Climate News)
• Austin Area Pro-Rail Transit Folks Pushing Hard Ahead of Oct. 1 Cap Metro Announcement at Chamber Event
• Austin’s Capital Metro Budget Proposal is Ready for You to Dig Through and Attend Public Meetings
• …Houston Metro Budget Workshop Presentation and Video
• …San Antonio’s VIA to Host Public Meeting on Proposed Budget This Wednesday
• …Dallas’ DART Proposed Budget will Be Presented at the Board Meeting Tuesday
• Cyclists Concerned Over Streetcar Tracks in El Paso (KFOX14)
• Fort Worth Police Chase Kills Innocent Bystander, Four Injured (NBC DFW)

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• Want to See Houston Drivers Slow Down? Here’s How to Report the Problem (Houston Chron)
• Pregnant Woman Survives Hit-and-Run in Southwest Houston (cw39)
• Tia Roland, 19 of Tyler, Dies in Car Crash (East Texas Matters)
• Applications to Join the City of Austin Pedestrian Advisory Council Due Sep 16
• H-GAC Has Money for a Seamless Houston Region Transit Fare, Trip Planning System (HPM)
• Austin Lawyer is Totes Excited About Suing Scooter Companies
• Toronto Cyclists are Using Pool Noodles to Combat Dangerous Drivers (blogTO)
• Capital Metro Ridership Going Up Following ReMap Frequent Bus Grid (Austin Chron)
• Leander Getting a Walkable Urban, Transit-Oriented Downtown (Statesman)

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• Out of Control: Houston’s Roads, Drivers are Nation’s Most Deadly (Houston Chron)
• In Houston, 11 Fatal Wrecks, 12 Fatalities: A Typical Week (Houston Chron)
• Out of Control: Tell the Houston Chronicle Your Traffic Violence Story
• When Democracy Fails to Pay for Public Life, Quasi-Government Steps Up (OffCite)
• ‘GREED’: Graffiti on New Home near Disney Streets Spells Gentrification War in Dallas (Morning News)
• SAISD Buses Will Photograph Drivers Breaking Law, Passing Stopped Buses (Rivard)

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• Austin Mayor’s Deputy Calls for Upgrading Local #20 Bus to Frequent Rapid
• TXDOT Public Hearing on Adding Sidewalks and Bike Lanes in Waco, Wed, Sep 5
• Bike San Antonio Calls for Protected Bikeways on Broadway (Rivard)
• Three Children Hospitalized in a Car Crash Involving Six Other People (Spectrum News Austin)
• Renters Vs. Homeowners: Who’s Really in Need of Help? (Austin Monthly)
• Dallas Climate Action Plan Clears First Hurdle, With Discussion of Transit, Bike (GreenSource DFW)
• AIA San Antonio Community Conversation: Making Sense of Land Use and Zoning, Thu, Sep 6
• Planting Trees in Underserved Dallas Neighborhoods to Combat Heat Island, Inequity (CityLab)
• Road Spending Lobbying Group Calling for Votes to Allow Toll Roads (Katy News)

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