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Today’s Headlines

By Caitlin McNeely | Oct 29, 2015 | No Comments

Dallas Council Lowers Fees for Sidewalk Cafes (Morning News)
SA Tomorrow Transportation Plan Wants to Hear From Bicyclists (SA Current)
DART Works With Lyft, Uber, ZipCar on First/Last Mile Connections (KERA)
How San Antonio’s Adoption of CNG Buses Compares to Other Texas Cities (SA Business Journal)
Men Outnumber Women 3 to 1 in Downtown Houston (Houston Chronicle)
Pedestrian Hit Trying to Cross North Freeway Houston (ABC13)
Dallas Will Spend $3 Million to Move Trinity Groves Concrete Plant Near Middle School (Morning News)
Downtown San Antonio Parking Study to Determine If There’s “Enough” (Rivard Report)
First Look at Mixed-Use Downtown Dallas Tower Project (Morning News)
Gabe Klein on Southern States’ Race to Livability (Houston Chronicle)

Vancouver City Council Votes to Erase Last Vestiges of Freeway System

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 28, 2015 | No Comments

An artist’s rendering of what the space now occupied by viaducts will look like. Image: City of Vancouver via CBC Vancouver is famous for not having any freeways within the central city. But highway building got underway before public opposition quashed the freeway system in the early 1970s, and a couple of fragments of the old freeway structure [...]

Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Oct 28, 2015 | No Comments

Should We Include Affordable Housing in Downtown Housing Incentives? (Houston Chron)
Dallas Morning News Thinks Best Result of CityMap Is Focus on Roads With Big Payoffs
Institute for Justice Files Lawsuit on Behalf of San Antonio Food Trucks (Mobile-Cuisine)
Surprise: Most Expensive Projects in Montgomery Bond Are Road Expansions (Houston Chron)
Medical Bills of Man on Bike Struck by Police Car Will Exceed $100,000 Payout Limit (ABC13)
Are 5-Story Wood Frame Apartment Buildings Without Ground Floor Retail Urban? (Dallas Observer)
CITE 2015 Survey of Houston Mayor and City Council Candidates
Hines Focusing Back Home in Houston to Build Mixed-Use Walkable Urbanism (BizJournals)

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The Little City by Monte Anderson et al

By Patrick Kennedy | Oct 27, 2015 | No Comments

Last night, Monte Anderson and I gave the 2nd in a series of classes at the Dallas Institute. I’ll be posting the slide show of my presentation shortly, but first I wanted to share the video that Monte made in collaboration with others about ten years ago. He showed it last night. It was the […]

Today’s Headlines

By Caitlin McNeely | Oct 27, 2015 | No Comments

Dallas Trinity Parkway Plan: a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing (Dallas Observer)
Public Hearing for Proposed Service Changes to Houston METRO Routes Nov 4
Residents Urge Mixed-Use Pedestrian Market in Redesign of East Austin Medical Center (Community Impact)
Road Users Pay Less Than 50 Percent of Road Costs (The Atlantic)
Oregon Congressman Touts Gas Tax Hike at Dallas RailVolution Conference (Morning News)
California Cities Can No Longer Force Affordable TOD Developers to Provide Excessive Parking (Smart Growth America)
$1 Billion in Residential Development Underway Around Houston’s Minutemaid Park (Houston Chronicle)
Re-striping in Austin Neighborhood Means Fewer Bike Lanes, More Parking (KXAN)
Toll Rates Rising on Unopened Section of Grand Parkway (Chron)
NACTO Designing Cities Conference 2015 in Austin, October 28-31

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Affordability for the Long Run

By Dan Keshet | Oct 26, 2015 | No Comments

The major theme of the 2014 Austin elections was affordability and a major theme of City Council since then has been defining the word. Long-time readers of this blog are no stranger to tussles over the definition. Michael King took on the subject in the Austin Chronicle, taking aim at the Statesman’s editorial board and their false equation of affordability with “low property taxes”. […]

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By Jay Blazek Crossley | Oct 26, 2015 | No Comments

Rail~Volution Comes to Dallas This Week (Morning News)
Dallas to Subsidize Move of a Concrete Plant Away From Mixed Use District (Morning News)
Do the Feds Really Object to Dallas Designing Trinity Roadway for Slow Speeds? (Morning News)
Why Ignore Transit Access, Multifamily in Affordable Housing Discussions? (Morning News)
Unsafe Streets, Excessive Driving Cause People Walking, Riding Bikes to Live in Fear (Morning News)
Cheap Gas and Lack of VMT Tax Help Cause Traffic in Texas Cities (Austin American Statesman)
Chairman Joe Pickett Glad Prop 7 Will Remove Decision Making From Lege (Waco Tribune)
Unattributed Editorial Argues That Texas Taxes Will Have to Rise Even if Prop 7 Passes (Midland R-T)

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Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Oct 23, 2015 | No Comments

Bike Shop Replaces Elementary Student’s Bike Destroyed in Crash with Car (KXXV)
Houston Multifamily Market Going Strong in Spite of Oil Prices (BizJournals)
Ad For Sprawl Road Bond Shows Urban Streets It Will Not Build (Community Impact)
Record Home Prices Causing Concern for Affordable Housing in Dallas (Morning News)
Dallas Residents Want More Deck Parks Over Freeways (Morning News)
Dallas Residents Rallying for More Bike Lanes (Morning News)
Mixed Use Walkable Urbanism Coming to a Deep Ellum Light Rail Station (Morning News)

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House Transpo Bill Spells Trouble for Transit Projects Across America

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 23, 2015 | No Comments

Chicago’s Red and Purple Line modernization project could be delayed or worse under the funding formulas in the House transportation bill, says Representative Dan Lipinski. Image via CTA A provision in the House GOP’s new transportation bill threatens to upend how transit agencies fund major capital projects, delaying or killing efforts to expand and maintain rail and [...]

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By Jay Blazek Crossley | Oct 22, 2015 | No Comments

Center for Public Policy Priorities Criticizes Prop 7 Constitutional Road Spending Scheme
Prop 7 Road Subsidy Fan Criticizes Efforts to Save Atwater Prairie Chicken (KeepTexasDriving)
The Safety of Riding a Bike Is an Issue in the Valley Now (The Monitor)
Low Income Folks Make Up More of the Bicycling Public Than “Hipsters” (Kinder Institute)
Dallas Developers Believe the Center of Town Is 30 Miles North of Downtown (Morning News)
Metro Adding More Free Parking for Highly Subsidized Service to Sprawl (Mass Transit Mag)
Senate Committee on Transportation Won’t Be Studying Walking, Biking, or Transit

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Dallas Council Member: Texas Poised to “Compound Errors of the Past”

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 21, 2015 | No Comments

The entire Texas highway machine — suburban real estate moguls, the construction industry, the governor, and the legislature — is pushing voters to approve Prop 7, a constitutional amendment that would mandate spending $2.5 billion in state sales tax revenue on un-tolled roads. The highway interests are telling Texas voters in unison that this measure, if approved in November, will fix congestion [...]

Will Texas Voters Enshrine Failed Transpo Policy in the State’s Constitution?

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 20, 2015 | No Comments

When Texas voters go to the polls this November they will decide an issue of enormous consequence to the future of the state. Adding more lanes isn’t going to fix Texas’s transportation problems. Photo: TxDOT via Houston Matters A proposed amendment to the state constitution — on the ballot as Proposition 7 — would shift about $2.5 billion in [...]

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