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Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Oct 20, 2015 | No Comments

Kevin Barton: The Case Against Proposition 7 (Rivard Report)
Eltife: “More Conservative to Raise Taxes Than Go Into Debt to Pay for Transpo” (Houston Chron)
El Paso MPO Trying Out Concept of Seeking Public Input for Transportation Plan (KFox14)
San Antonio’s Aztec Theater Redeveloping With Residential and Retail (BizJournals)
DART Working on Massive Overhaul — a “Reimagining” Perhaps — of Entire System (Morning News)
Sub-Urbanites Oppose Mixed Use Town Center, Don’t Want Access Nearby (Houston Chron)
Dress Up and Ride in BikeHouston’s Moonlight Ramble This Saturday
Experience a Walk Score of 62 With San Antonio Mayor Ivy Taylor on October 29
Two People Injured By Drivers While Riding Bikes in McAllen and Waco Over Weekend

Do Environmental Reviews for Road Projects Help the Environment?

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 19, 2015 | No Comments

It’s been more than 40 years since the National Environmental Policy Act was enacted. In that time, America has built a lot of emissions-inducing, land-devouring highway infrastructure despite the environmental review process mandated by NEPA. It’s fair to ask: When it comes to transportation infrastructure, does environmental review make a difference for the environment? The $1.1 billion expansion of the [...]

Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Oct 19, 2015 | No Comments

TX Dept of “Transportation” Spends >95% of $12B Annual Budget on Highways (Morning News)
SA Express-News Believes the Problem With Texas Transportation Is Lack of Road Spending
Does Growing Population Mean Increasing Council Seats in San Antonio? (Rivard Report)
Petition Asks Bexar County DA to Charge Person Who Killed While Texting and Driving
Early Voting Starts Today in Texas — FYI, Prop 7 Won’t Fix Transportation Issues
Houston Comprehensive Bike Plan Could Be Finalized This Spring (HoustonPublic Media)
Tour Houston Urbanism and Nature by Bike With Your Headline Writer Tuesday

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Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Oct 16, 2015 | No Comments

San Antonio City Staff Not Caught Up on Their Strong Towns Math (Express News)
Study: $36B Economic Benefit to Texas of Dallas, Houston High Speed Rail (Morning News)
Houston, Dallas High Speed Rail Will Also Stop Near College Station (The Eagle)
AIA Dallas Talks History and Future of Trails in DFW on Monday, October 19
Andres Duany to Talk Lean Urbanism at Public Lecture at Rice in Houston, October 21
Walk With the CodeNEXT Coders and Influence Austin Urban Design (Community Impact)
Death to Lawns (Dallas Observer)

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San Antonio’s Latest Useless Bike Lane

By Daniel Day, the Famed Sir Bikes A Lot | Oct 15, 2015 | No Comments

The latest Useless bicycle lane is now open. Has been open for almost a month now and you can use this latest uselessness on Arsenal along the HEB headquarters. (Image 43-1)43-1To understand why this was built, you're going to have to listen to a...

Today’s Headlines

By Caitlin McNeely | Oct 15, 2015 | No Comments

Train Safety Deadline Approaching, Could Affect Texas Operations (Dallas Morning News)
El Pasoans Tell MPO They Like Buses, Want Repairs More Than Highways (KFOX 14)
Bike Shops, Brewery to Revitalize Downtown Garland Square, Dallas (Dallas Morning News)
City of Houston Expands Midtown TIRZ to Make More Walkable Neighborhoods (Houston Chronicle)
Volunteer at Austin BikeFest For Halloween
Roam the Streets at Luminaria, a Block Party for the Arts in San Antonio

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via $Houston Tomorrow$

Coalition for Complete Streets Candidate Briefing

By caitlin.mcneely@houstontomorrow.org | Oct 14, 2015 | No Comments

The Houston Coalition for Complete Streets, a collection of 36 entities from across the Houston region and across focus areas, has released its Briefing for Candidates for Mayor and Council of the city of Houston to help make the streets of Houston safe for all Houstonians in 2016. Houston Tomorrow…

Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Oct 14, 2015 | No Comments

City of Houston Adopts Arts and Culture Plan (Press Release)
Avenue CDC Mixed Income Multi-Family Project Has Six Month Waiting List (Business Journal)
Houston Chronicle and Dallas Morning News Believe in Constitutionally Required Road Spending
Could Dallas Steal the Rangers From Arlington Based on Transit? (Morning News)
Speaker Proposal Deadline Extended to Oct 30 for Texas Trails and Active Transpo Conference
MobilityATX Report Recommends Guadalupe – Lamar Light Rail Route (KEYE)
Plano Strategy Includes Convincing NCTCOG to Include Housing Policy in Traffic Modeling
CityLab Picks Up Story on Dallas Dead Ped Shaming

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Gabe Klein Talks About Getting Sh*t Done in His New Book, “Start-Up City”

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Oct 13, 2015 | No Comments

Streets can be tough to change. Between institutional inertia, tight budgets, bureaucratic red tape, and the political risks of upsetting the status quo, even relatively simple improvements for walking, biking, or transit can take years to pull off — if they ever get implemented at all. But a new generation of transportation officials have shown that it doesn’t have to [...]

Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Oct 13, 2015 | No Comments

San Antonio Considering Giving Its Share of ATD Tax to Transit (Express News)
Real Estate Markets Are Weird When You Only Count Single Family Buildings as “Homes” (Morning News)
TXLege to Focus on TTI Study of 483 Rural Oil Truck Crashes/Yr in State with 409,369 Crashes/Yr
Collaborate on the Best Austin Imaginable Tonight from 6-8 p.m. at Google Fiber Space
Envision Zero at the Houston Coalition for Complete Streets Meeting Tonight from 6-8 p.m. at Big Top
Texas Transportation Commission Neglects Funding Walking and Biking (Herald Democrat)
San Antonio Might Join the Push to Regulate Feeding the Homeless (KENS5)

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Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Oct 12, 2015 | No Comments

Ten Vacant Buildings Have Been Fixed, Occupied in San Antonio Fee Program (Express-News)
Does “Keep Austin Weird” Mean Keep People Out? Wouldn’t That Be Un-Weird? (CityLab)
John Neely Bryan: Roads Do Not Make Cities Great (D Magazine)
2,500 Miles of Roadway Missing Sidewalks in San Antonio (Rivard Report)
PBS Looks at Light Rail in Houston and Dallas (PBS Nightline Weekend)
Sub-Urban Opportunists Sling “Facts” at Light Rail, Ignore Car Subsidy (Houston Chron)
Austin’s CAPCOG Hiring Senior Planner (CNU)
City of Houston Planning Department Hiring Multiple Planners (COH)

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via $Car Free Austin$

Learning from Bogotá: No More Excuses

By Carrie Gammell | Oct 9, 2015 | No Comments

We ended this month’s meeting of the Pedestrian Advisory Council with a few thoughts on education and safety*. Of the 82 2015 Austin traffic deaths, 26 have been pedestrians. While we advocate and wait for infrastructure improvements in the form of reduced speed limits, marked crosswalks, sidewalks and bulb-outs, Jim Dale of the city’s Transportation Department […]

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