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Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Oct 9, 2015 | No Comments

San Antonio Taco Trucks Suing 300-Foot Rule as Unconstitutional (Institute for Justice)
Move Mobility, Dutch Cycling Embassy Helping in Downtown With Houston Bike Plan
H-GAC Appears to Be Lobbying for Road-Only Bond in Montgomery (Houston Chron)
TXDOT ED Resigns, Will Next Be Politically Connected White Man? (Houston Chron)
Austin Installs Safety Improvements at City’s Worst Intersection on Day 1 of Fiscal Year
Tri-Chair of SATomorrow Wants Higher Standards of Walkability for All (ULTRAte)
Come to the LOCUS Reception at Rail~Volution in Dallas October 27
You Can Still Register for Rail~Volution in Dallas, October 25 – 28
You Can Still Register for NACTO Designing Cities Conference, October 28 – 31
You Can Still Register for People and Nature Conference, October 22 – 24

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By Jay Blazek Crossley | Oct 8, 2015 | No Comments

Texas’s Two Great Ozone Non-Attainment Zones Suing Volkswagen (Morning News)
Should We Blame James Franco or Urban and Street Design for Dallas Traffic? (Observer)
Houston City Council Streamlines Historic Preservation Ordinance (Houston Public Media)
BikeHouston Explains the City of Houston Bike Plan
Top Upvoted Idea in Mobility ATX Findings Report? Fully Funding Bicycle Master Plan
Fayetteville, Arkansas, Has Eliminated Commercial Parking Requirements (Fayetteville Flyer)

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Feds Propose Major Rule Changes to Eliminate Barriers to Safer Streets

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 8, 2015 | No Comments

By eliminating outdated design standards, the feds can make it much easier for local governments to design streets like Fifth Street in Dayton, Ohio. Photo: APA Applying highway design standards to city streets has been a disaster for urban neighborhoods. The same things that make highways safer for driving at 65 mph — wide lanes, “clear zones” running alongside [...]

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UberAccess Expands Mobility

By Dan Keshet | Oct 7, 2015 | No Comments

I’m honored to have today’s guest post from friend-of-the-blog Boone Blocker. Boone is an active citizen in the transportation field, having served on the city’s Urban Transportation Commission and CapMetro’s Access Advisory Committee. Boone was Rider Zero for UberACCESS; he brings his user’s perspective on the new service that provides mobility for people with mobility challenges: Around the world […]

Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Oct 7, 2015 | No Comments

People of DFW: Take the NCTCOG Mobility 2040 Transportation Survey
Dallas Begins Dallas CityMAP to Reconsider Downtown Freeways (D Magazine, Morning News)
TTC Unveils Report Calling for $45 Billion for Multimodal Freight (Quorum Report)
Austin Complete Streets Hosting Better Streets Week ATX October 25 – 31 (Tickets, Facebook)
San Antonio Council Member Wants to Match Local Election Day to National (Rivard Report)
Rivard Report Explains San Antonio Municipal Bonds and Wants You to Get Involved Now
UberACCESS to Provide 24/7 Wheelchair Accessible On Demand Trips (Austin On Your Feet)
Austinites: Fill Out the Survey on Capital Metro Performance
City of El Paso Kicks Off Bike Plan
Today Is International Walk to School Day

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Homelessness, the Problem That Affects All of Us

By Dan Keshet | Oct 5, 2015 | No Comments

A very small percentage of Austinites are homeless. During the January 2015 count of homeless individuals in Austin, a total of 1,877 homeless residents of Austin were found, or roughly 0.2% — 1 in every 450 Austinites. Yet, homelessness is a problem with an extremely wide reach. The knock-on problems that come from our inability to end homelessness […]

Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Oct 5, 2015 | No Comments

Austin Neighborhood Not Waiting for NACTO Conference for Guerrilla Intersection Right Sizing
Hundreds Come Out for Picnic in Middle of Houston Street in San Antonio (News4SanAntonio)
San Antonio Leads Texas in Transit Trips Per Capita (FiveThirtyEight)
Report: How to Establish Passenger Rail From New Orleans to Baton Rouge (+ Houston?)
Safety and Health Gains of Road Diets Far Outweigh Any Losses to Delay (CityLab)
TXDOT Using Tory Gattis’ MaXLanes Term for Managed Express Lanes (Houston Strategies)
At Least Two People Died This Morning on a DFW Freeway, as Per Usual (Morning News)
American Planning Association Texas Chapter Conference This Week in Galveston

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Choose Your Own Utopia: What Will We Make of Driverless Cars?

By Tony Dutzik | Oct 2, 2015 | No Comments

Cross-posted from the Frontier Group. A century ago, a new transportation technology burst onto the scene that threatened to disrupt everything: the car. Thinkers of the day, along with boosters of the new technology, dreamed grand dreams of the utopia it would bring. General Motors’ Futurama exhibit at the 1939 World’s Fair (shown in the amazing 1940 promotional [...]

Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Oct 2, 2015 | No Comments

Mayor Parker Pushing Forward With Citywide Ban on Driving While Txting (KHOU)
San Antonio Could Decide to Do Clean Air Plan Before New EPA Standards Force It (Rivard)
Houston Bike Share to Expand to Largest System in Texas with $3.9M from TPC (Houston Chron)
Lobbyist Believes What Texas Cities Need Is Massive Additional Spending on Roads (Houston Chron)
TXDOT Investing in Wrong-Way Safety Improvements Following Media Reports (NBCDFW)
How Much Do College Station and Texas Subsidize Driving to A&M Games? (KBTX)
Texas Did Not Spend $10 Million It Allocated to School Bus Safety Belts (KXAN)
Texas Funded Center for Infrastructure Renewal Plans to Have Massive Parking (Trib Talk)

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By Jay Blazek Crossley | Oct 1, 2015 | 1 Comment

USDOT Studying Texas Triangle Megaregion as Part of Beyond Traffic Project (KVUE)
CM Tovo Suggests Requiring Good Access to Transit for Affordable Housing (Austin Chron)
Downtown Plano Wins APA Best Places Award (D Magazine); Also, Hermann Park
Cigna Sunday Streets HTX This Sunday October 4 on Washington Avenue
Austin BCycle Offering $15 3-Day Pass for Austin City Limits Festival
The Hidden Inequality of Traffic Fatalities Is Getting Worse (WaPo)
San Antonio Using Participatory Budgeting in Developing Bond Proposals
Shell Center Report: Houston Less Affordable Than New York City or Chicago (Houston Chron)

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Downtown Plano – National Award Winning Neighborhood

By Patrick Kennedy | Oct 1, 2015 | No Comments

Plano has won a national award for best neighborhood. No, not the entire 70+ square miles of the entire municipality, as apparently sometimes gets confused for a neighborhood. Neighborhoods should be about a square mile, be a great place to live, and provide convenient access to all of your daily needs within a feasible walk […]

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Houston Has a Plan

By caitlin.mcneely@houstontomorrow.org | Sep 30, 2015 | No Comments

Houston City Council has adopted Plan Houston, according to the Houston Planning and Development Department. Plan Houston is meant to serve as a vision and set of guidelines that will help steer public policy decisions toward stated goals. Houston To...

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