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Beginning with early voting and continuing through the May 9 election date, San Antonio’s registered voters will cast votes that will have an impact on our city. Not only will voters decide on which candidates will lead San Antonio, they will decide whether to amend our City Charter; San Antonio’s…

Well well.  Lookit what Houston’s been up to on the down low: They’re really doing some things down there. I suppose when you have terrible weather, you have to be smart with your urban design in order to compete and attract.  I kid.  I love what they’re doing with transit and trails, so this is […]

Robert Wilonsky has a story on the retirement of Keith Manoy from the city of Dallas.  Keith is the director of streets and neighborhood vitality (if I have my ever changing city hall titles correct).  For a few more days, that is, until the Oak Cliff streetcar gets a bottle of champagne broken across its […]

This is a multi-part post that you’re getting all at once since there is a lot to cover and the information, lessons, and ideas are all interrelated.  Since Senator Royce West and former mayor and trade ambassador Ron Kirk have requested alternatives to the Trinity Toll Road, which should only serve to suggest, yeah, it’s […]

Christof Spieler joins me again to continue our discussion of Houston. This time we talk transportation and all the great things Houston is working on. Uptown, home to the highest building in the U.S. outside of a central business district, will soon be getting true Bus Rapid Transit, and people on bikes are now rolling next to the bayous and connecting […]

A new report from Brookings Institute is tracking not so much job loss/gain, but job losses and gains near where people live in terms of the amount of jobs near people and change in average commute length.  Not to spoil the surprise, but car-dependent places perform poorly.  As we know, car-dependent places have the most […]