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Surgeon General’s Warning: Unwalkable Places Are Hazardous to Your Health

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 9, 2015 | No Comments

Physical activity is essential to people’s health, but dangerous streets and spread-out, sprawling communities prevent Americans from getting enough of it, says the U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy. Murthy issued a call to action this morning to highlight how walking — and building walkable places — can benefit a nation where chronic diseases like heart disease, diabetes, and arthritis afflict [...]

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

ICYMI: Houston Paved 38,000 Acres of Wetlands in 20 Years, Developers Not Mitigating (Houston Chron)
More Texas Rural Land Destroyed by Sub-Urbs Than Any Other State (Morning News)
Video: Train Driver Narrowly Avoids Ped Death (WKBN)
Waco May Waste Two Years of State Funding — $76M — On SOV Freeway Capacity (Waco Tribune)
Making Dallas Proud: Tyler Nelson Invents TrunkMonkey, Inflatable Bike Rack (Outside Online)
Denton Record-Chronicle Equates Need for Safety Training for People Driving Cars and Riding Bikes
Newsflash: No Newspaper in Texas Posting How-To Guide on Bike Boxes (Bellingham Herald)

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Two People, One Car: a Brief Retrospective

By Liz Goulding | Sep 8, 2015 | No Comments

Today for your transportation related reading enjoyment, I offer you something a little less quantitative and a little more qualitative and anecdotal. My husband and I bought a car this weekend, and it was officially the end of an era. It was the end of us being a one-car household. My husband’s workplace is trading […]

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

Core Urban Texas Counties Attracted Most Growth in Nation in 2013, Travis #1 (Headlight Data)
Small Cities, Like Conroe, Focus on Bringing Walkscore Up from 26 (Houston Chron)
19-Year-Old Kills Four Women With His Pickup Truck in Dallas, Runs, Is Caught (Morning News)
Drunk Driver Strikes Police Car in Dallas, Injures Two Officers (Morning News)
Builders of Added LBJ Freeway Car Capacity Expect 90,000 More Cars by 2030 (Morning News)
City of San Antonio Could Sign on for $2M a Year for Lone Star Rail to Austin (Texas Public Radio)
Restoring the Prominence of Texas Cities Means 5-Story Density Like in Oak Cliff (Morning News)

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Two Highway Lanes Won’t Fix Baton Rouge’s Traffic Problem

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 4, 2015 | No Comments

Louisiana’s prescription for traffic congestion in Baton Rouge is to widen a highway and generate more traffic. Image: Louisiana DOTD Everyone agrees there’s a traffic problem in Baton Rouge, but not everyone is sold on the state’s plan to address it. The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development’s solution, presented this week, is to add two lanes to Interstate 10 [...]

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By Jay Blazek Crossley | Sep 4, 2015 | No Comments

Houston’s Energy Corridor Wants Circulator Bus to Connect Sub-Urban Neighborhoods (Katy Rancher)
Converting the Addicks Park and Ride From Parking Lot to Transit Oriented Development (Katy Rancher)
Rep. Joe Pickett Appointed Chair of House Select Committee on Transportation Planning (El Paso Times)
Texas Transportation Commission Taking Texas Another $1 Billion Deeper in Debt (Bond Buyer)
Bexar County Supports Lone Star Rail with $500,000 (San Antonio Current)
Driver Jumps Curb and Plows Onto Sidewalk, Killing 2 Women and Injuring 1 (LMTonline, More)
Man Driving Car Pepper Sprays Elderly Man on Walk After Telling Him to “Get off the Road” (KXAN)
1,041 Texans Died in 2014 in Alcohol Related Crashes, But Tara Monroe Has a Barbie Jeep (Fox)

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Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Sep 3, 2015 | No Comments

Does Austin’s Capital Metro Have a Car-Based Culture, and Does That Hinder Transit? (Medium)
Austin’s South Central Waterfront Initiative Seeks Walkability and Affordable Housing (Austin Chron)
TTI Gets to the Fat of the Session Recaps: Road Funding Bills of the 84th Regular
San Antonio’s VIA Is the 1st Major Transit System With Systemwide Free WiFi
Construction of Houston’s Bayou Greenways Expected to Pick Up Pace (Houston Chron)
Ride Your Bike 170 Miles Around Galveston Bay at Help the Bay – October 17 and 18

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3 Reasons Politicians Like Building New Roads More Than Fixing Old Ones

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 2, 2015 | No Comments

The $600 million it will cost to build this one bridge is more than the estimated $500 million needed to bring all of Minnesota’s 1,191 “structurally deficient” bridges into a state of good repair. Guess which project Minnesota is moving ahead with. Image: Minnesota DOT American transportation policy places a premium on delivering big, shiny new things. As much as the [...]

Today’s Headlines

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

Transportation Safety Initiatives Briefing at Austin Mobility Committee Includes Vision Zero
Kinder Institute Report: Rice Village Has 1,000 Too Many Parking Spots (Houston Chron)
Deep Ellum Getting Its First High Rise Apartments (Morning News)
San Antonio Working on Plan to Add 200,000 People Through Annexation (Rivard Report)
How Much Would Commercial DFW Be Worth If Austin Wins TCAD Lawsuit? (Observer)
Waco Plans to Assign Excessive Public Costs of Sprawl to Sprawl Developments (Waco Tribune)
Developer Proposes Building as If Dallas Is Major World City — People Disapprove (Morning News)
El Paso Most Population-Weighted Dense Metro in Texas, Austin Least (Austin Contrarian)
Dallas’ Bar Politics: Patrick Kennedy, Brandon Castillo Tonight at Small Brew Pub

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Let’s Hack Dallas

By Kevin Walker | Sep 1, 2015 | No Comments

In my last blog post on ways Dallas can improve, I touched upon what is now called civic innovation. What is civic innovation you may ask? Civic innovation is an emerging movement where local governments open up their data sets to tech companies, web developers and data scientist to create programs, apps and tools to […]

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By Jay Blazek Crossley | Sep 1, 2015 | No Comments

Texans For Prop 7 – a $3B Required Road Spending Campaign – Has Under 100 Twitter Followers
Take the Midtown Management District Circulator Survey to Help Plan Proposed Transit Service
Open House: TXDOT Seeks Improvements to SH29, Built in 1934, From Georgetown to Circleville
ICYMI: Gov Abbott Vetoed a Bill, SB1032, to Allow State Employees to Work at Home (TTI)
Jarrett Walker Notes That TTI Implies You Don’t Exist (If You Don’t Drive)
Transportation Related Committees of the Texas Legislative Meeting in the Interim (TTI)
Petition: Support a Vision Zero Policy and Action Plan to Improve Traffic Safety for Austin
Transportation Action Group’s Houston Mayoral Race Debate Archived on Houston Media Source
Dallas Building at Center of Logan’s Run Movie Sold By Exxon Mobil (Morning News)

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Here They Are — The Sad Benches Where No One Wants to Sit

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 31, 2015 | No Comments

This lovely “place I don’t want to sit” comes from Drew Ackermann in Gambrills, Maryland. His wife tested it out just for laughs. Last week, Gracen Johnson over at Strong Towns introduced the phrase “places I don’t want to sit” to describe the lousy, leftover public spaces where someone has plopped down a bench or two as an afterthought. The seating, in these [...]

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