• Harmony Science Academy seeks school zone to protect students crossing Texas Avenue (The Eagle)
• Reminder: Freeway Construction Itself Causes the Congestion It Hopes to Ease (Star-Telegram)
• Bike San Antonio Has a Petition Asking for Protected Bike Lanes on Broadway
• The Rise and Fall of Dockless Bike Sharing in Dallas (Texas Monthly)
• …In Spite of Horrible Lack of Safe Infrastructure, People Used Shared Bikes (Morning News)
• Tickets Available: New Urbanism Film Festival Returns to Austin, Tuesday, August 21
• Final Public Meetings for Waller Co. Mobility Plan to Finish Paving Over Katy Prairie, August 14, 16

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• Four Things DART’s Cotton Belt Stations Will Mean for Plano (Morning News)
• Entirety of Texas VW Lawsuit Money for Clean Air to Go Toward Vehicular Transportation (Houston Chron)
• Why Houston’s Bike Plan Matters for Bicyclists’ Safety (Kinder)
• DFW Area Cities Going Strong Toward Tech Solutions to Traffic (Star-Telegram)
• Tell TxDOT: Prioritize the Lives and Physical Wellbeing of Texans (Salud America)
• FHWA Report: Self-Enforcing Roadways: A Guidance Report

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• After Crash, Austin Becomes Latest City to Grapple with Scooter Safety (Statesman)
• Instead of Vision Zero, Houston Mayor Turner Asks Outside Groups to List Most Dangerous Intersections for Riding Bikes (BikeHouston)
• The Interview With LeBron James About Bicycles and Freedom (Wall Street Journal)
• How Lazy Coverage of Pedestrian Deaths Obscures Why Streets Are So Dangerous (Streetsblog USA)
• Only Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, and Arizona Have Less State Gas Tax Than Texas (Washington Policy Center)
• How Density, Walkability, and Proximity are Transforming Retail (CNU)

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• How Are You Going to Build Safe Streets with the City of Houston Neighborhood Matching Grant Program?
• City of Austin Community Survey Open on Dockless Mobility – Shared Scooters, Bikes – Through August 31
• From Close Calls to Crashes: Infrastructure Priorities to Improve Safety for People on Bikes (Kinder)
• Dallas Morning News Editorial: Spending $5 Million on NCTCOG Hyperloop Study Not Good
• BikeHouston’s Moonlight Ramble Midnight Costumed Ride Will Be Saturday, October 27
• Irving Transportation Investment Summit Coming Up Thursday and Friday, August 23 & 24

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• Darrell Smitty, 52, Charged with Manslaughter in Death of Ernesto Garcia, 40, at Bus Stop (KVUE)
• Michael Skelly: City Regulations Make Houston a Miserable Place to Walk (Houston Chron)
• For Game Changing Public Transit, Austin Needs the Feds to Chip In (Monitor)
• Few People Understand the Profound Equity Reform that Christof Brought to Metro (Kinder)
• …Placing Transit Stations Where the People Are Is Lightyears Ahead of Other Efforts
• Houston Bike Sharing Program Poised for Another Big Expansion (Houston Chron)
• Boosters Claim that a Whole New Southern Interstate Highway Claim It Will Reduce Poverty (WDSU)

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• Austin PD Victim Blames Man Who Was Standing on Bus Stop Sidewalk When Killed (Streetsblog USA)
• You Have Two Weeks Left to Send in Your Comments on the TXDOT Unified Transpo Program (Farm&City)
• TXDOT Still Hopes Useless 290 Expansion To Stop Causing Construction Traffic This Year (Impact)
• Austin’s Pedestrian Advisory Council to Receive Update on Dockless Mobility Tonight
• Plano Boosters Mistakenly Think Amazon Wants Rail Stations, Instead of Walkable Urbanism (Morning News)
• 2 Died in 5-Vehicle Pileup on – Undivided Two-Lane, High-Speed – Highway 36 in Fort Bend (Click2Houston)
• Nicholas Alexander Killed Baton Rouge CM Buddy Amoroso, Charged with Unsafe Passing (NO Advocate)
• …Texas Still Does Not Have a Statewide Safe Passing Law, Like Louisiana
• Rising Distracted Driving Deaths in Texas, as #TXLEGE Considers Finishing Job Started Last Year (NBCDFW)

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• Tarrant County College Paying for Trinity Metro Passes for all Students Yields Better Transit to Campuses
• MoBike Dockless Bike Share Company Leaving Dallas Market (Morning News)
• New East Side Metro Board Member Teresa Morales Prioritizes Long Distance West Side Commutes (Kinder)
• Dallas Morning News Wants Us All to Die Driving New Cars on a Warming Planet
• Council Member Ann Kitchen Says that CodeNEXT Reboot Should Build Upon Existing Work (Monitor)
• Texas Transportation Safety Conference Starts Next Wednesday in Sugar Land
• CTRMA Report Shows People Systematically Driving 10 Miles Over Speed Limit on Express Lanes

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• Houston’s Drainage and Complete Streets Funding to Be On Ballot in November (Houston Chron)
• CodeNEXT is Dead. Long Live the Effort to End Car Dependency and Segregation. (Statesman)
• Journalists Are Now Anthropomorphizing Guard Rails That Dudes Drive Into (Morning News)
• Bird Scooter Company Will Set Aside $1 a Day Per Scooter to Fund Safe Infrastructure (Curbed)
• An Argument for a New Approach to Transportation Funding in Texas (D Magazine)
• Frisco Robot Vans’ Communications With Pedestrians Noted as Unique Aspect (The Verge)

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• Robot Vans Are Driving Paying Customers on Trips in Frisco, Texas – With Human Backup (CBS)
• Broken TXLege Transportation Funding System Means Metro Cannot Build Needed Transit (Houston Chron)
• Private Texas Road Construction Company Claims Sovereign Immunity to Avoid Lawsuits (Galveston County Daily News)
• San Antonio Police Dept, Vision Zero Campaign to Focus on City’s Dangerous Intersections (Rivard)
• Capital Metro Gives the Green Light to the Low Ridership Green Line (Austin Monitor)
• Beyonce’s Early Childhood Home in Houston is For Sale for $500,000 (Swamplot)
• H-GAC Hosting “Housing for the Future, a Regional Conversation” on Friday, August 17

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• City of Austin Asking Bloomberg for Help to Stop Idiotic Practice of Requiring Parking (Austin Met)
• …While Expanding the Affordable Parking Program for Downtown Evening Workers (Monitor)
• Full Resolution Houston MetroNext Long Range Plan Presentation and Metrics Now Available (Kinder)
• Houston BCycle Adding Four New Docked Shared Bike Stations in Med Center
• …Still Not a Single Dockless Scooter or Bike Share in the City of Houston (Houston Chron)
• A Bus Was on Fire This Morning on an Austin Freeway (KVUE)
• Video: NCTCOG, US HUD, DFW Airport, et al are Totes Serious About Hyperloop
• …Vast Sea of Concrete from Regional Car Priority Policy Makes it Hotter in DFW (Morning News)

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• Austin Transportation Department Backs Away from Restrictive Dockless Rules (The Austin Met)
• …ICYMI – Caleb Pritchard Has Formed an Urbanist Magazine, The Austin Metropolitan
• Newly-Focused-on-Key-Strategies Austin City Budget Will Be Presented Monday, August 6
• `Death Highway’ Is Where Oil Prices, Truck Fatalities Intersect (Houston Chron)
• DART’s New GoPass Allows the Unbanked to Benefit from Monthly Fare Capping (Walkable DFW)
• Austin Transportation Dept Conducting Live Test of Reducing Car Priority Lanes on Guadalamar
• Speed Kills (Star-Telegram)

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• Houston Metro Unveils Awesome Long Range Plan with BRT, LRT, & Frequent & Local Bus
• For Houston bike safety laws, education trumps enforcement (Houston Chron)
• Austin is Working on a 30-Mile Loop Urban Hike and Bike Trail (Monitor)
• Car Dependent Sub-Urban Counties Contribute Significantly to Bexar County Ozone (Bandera Bulletin)
• 20-Year-Old Dies Driving at High Speed, Crashing into DART Bus, Flipping it Over (Morning News)

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