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James Oakley, Member of CAMPO Board, Repudiated for Lynching Comments

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Dec 1, 2016 | No Comments

Burnet County Judge James Oakley, who serves on the CAMPO Transportation Policy Board overseeing transportation planning and coordination for the 2 million residents of the Austin region, publicly called for the lynching of an African American suspect awaiting trial for the murder of San Antonio police officer Benjamin Marconi.

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Fort Worth Joins Houston in Pursuit of Safe Neighborhood Streets

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Nov 30, 2016 | 1 Comment

City Councilwoman Ann Zadeh is leading the charge in Forth Worth to make neighborhood streets safer through better design and lower speed limits.

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CAMPO Suggests Grid of Safe Streets as Part of Freeway Project

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Nov 10, 2016 | No Comments

The final public meeting for a CAMPO “study to develop a plan for bicycle and pedestrian accommodations near and across US 183 from MoPac in Austin to Cypress Creek in Cedar Park” will be this evening in Austin at Spicewood Springs Library: Thursday, November 10 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. 8637 Spicewood Springs Road, Austin, TX 78759 […]

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Hays County Used Flawed Population Forecasts to Lobby for Road Bond

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Nov 8, 2016 | No Comments

Local governments in Texas are not supposed to spend public funds to lobby for a particular outcome to a local bond election. But Hays County went ahead and used bogus population forecasts to make the case for a proposed road bond. This video, which seems to have been created with public funds, includes a county EMS employee making an […]

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Texas Cheerleaders Lead Campaign for Distracted Driving Ban to Honor One of Their Own

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Oct 31, 2016 | No Comments

The students of Champion Cheer All Stars cheerleading gym have collected over 4,000 signatures in one week on a petition asking the Texas legislature to ban people from driving while using an electronic device. They lost one of their own to a tragic crash believed to be caused by a distracted driver, as explained on their […]

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When Will Mayor Turner Let the Houston Bike Plan Move Forward?

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Oct 28, 2016 | No Comments

Earlier this week, BikeHouston held a traveling pep rally to call on Mayor Sylvester Turner to move forward with the Houston Bike Plan. After the rally, Turner said he would proceed with the bike plan but did not provide a timetable. The bike plan maps out an ambitious citywide network of safe, comfortable bikeways, including integration with the off-street bike trails in the Bayou […]

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Can Police Departments Get on Board with #CrashNotAccident?

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Oct 14, 2016 | 1 Comment

Words matter. But when we talk about traffic deaths and injuries, too often we slip into language that obscures how preventable these tragedies are. Referring to them as “accidents” connotes a lack of human agency, as though no one was at fault and the crash could not have been avoided. Instead of examining how the […]

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What Killed Eduardo Dill: ‘Failure to Yield Right of Way’ or Awful Streets?

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Sep 30, 2016 | 5 Comments

Tragedy struck El Paso again on September 22, when 27-year-old Susanna Lozano, driving her F-150 pickup truck, struck and killed 53-year-old Eduardo Dill as he attempted to cross a neighborhood street in his electric wheelchair. Police said that the “contributing factor” to the crash was Dill’s “failure to yield the right of way,” according to El […]

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Is Something Wrong With TXDOT’s Data on Driving?

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Sep 28, 2016 | 1 Comment

Recently, we explored how Texans seem to be driving less than they did 10 years ago. According to Texas DOT’s data, the average Texan is driving less every day, and Dallas, Tarrant, and Harris counties saw a decline in total driving mileage, even though they added millions of people. If this data is accurate, it suggests […]

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Texas DOT’s Own Numbers Cast Doubt on Its Story of Ever-Rising Traffic

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Sep 14, 2016 | 25 Comments

Back in 2015, the people of Texas were asked by the legislature and Governor Greg Abbott to meet the challenge of the state’s projected traffic growth by enacting a constitutional amendment to require road spending for the next decade. The people agreed and voted to allocate about $38 billion in state taxes for the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) […]