• Montgomery County Attacks Houston Region’s High Speed Rail Plans (KBTX)
• …But Wants Region to Fund Its Hike and Bike Trails (Community Impact)
• Carlos Mendez Charged With Manslaughter for Killing Woman in Crash on Galveston Seawall (Guidry)
• Feds Approve Assigning Costs to Users on 281, But Locals Pursuing Continued Subsidy (Express News)
• Purported Drunk Driver Smashes Into Recently Restored North Dallas Art Wall (Morning News)
• Texas A&M Donates $1 Million to Traffic Demand Management to Help Out Game Day Jams (KCEN)
• AURA and BikeAustin Looking Into a Bike-Ped-Transit Bond Referendum in 2016
• Zoning Is So Weird (Austin Monitor)

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• William Lind: Why Conservative Texans Should Support Rail, Question Libertarians (Texas Tribune)
• How Conservative Pundits Have Become Champions of New Urbanism (Pacific Standard Mag)
• All Public Comments at Tyler MPO TIP Planning Meeting Call for Safe Streets (Tyler Morning Telegraph)
• Texas Public Radio Talks Vision Zero With San Antonio Council Member Shirley Gonzales
• Too Many Texans Are Dying While Walking. Midland. East Austin. Tyler. Amarillo. Austin.
• Steve Spillette: Houston Parking Policies Have Negative Effect on Health, Economy (Houston Chron)
• Entire Small City – Manvel – in Southern Houston Region Is a Pro-Zoning NIMBY (Houston Chron)

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• Mayor Betsy Price Is Leading Fort Worth on a Bike (Fox Business)
• That’s One Fancy Looking Senior Housing Project in North Dallas (Morning News)
• Some Restorative Transit-Oriented Development in Houston’s Near Northside (Swamplot)
• Fewer Than 25% of Dallas Cops Live in Dallas. HOU&AUS: ~30%. SAN: ~55% (FiveThirtyEight)
• Houston Became “Unaffordable” for Millenials in Late 2014 — Dallas Will Soon (Bloomberg)
• Too Many People Are Killed While Riding Bikes in Texas: Pleasant Grove, Fort Worth
• Driving While Txting Ban Passes First Reading Unanimously in Midland (Reporter-Telegram)
• Texas Cities Average in Requiring Restaurants to Subsidize Driving (The Atlantic)
• Austin Mixed-Use Developer Committed to Including Affordable Housing (Community Impact)

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• Bike Houston Wants Vision Zero to Focus on Reducing Fatalities for All Road Users
• Watch This Streetfilm of NYC Families for Safe Streets Vigil to Understand Why Texas Needs #VisionZero
• Tell TXDOT We Need Complete Streets, Vision Zero, and Balanced Funding in UTP, Webinar at 4 pm
• Or Join the Transportation 4 America Open Conversation on the State of Federal Transportation Policy
• Somebody Shot at a DART Bus on Wednesday for Missing His Stop (Morning News)
• Man Critically Injured While Biking on Neighborhood Street in Fort Worth (WFAA)
• Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings: “The Roads Are Terrible” (Morning News)
• Sign the City of Houston Vision Zero Petition NOW. Share It. Get Signatures By Tuesday.

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• ~50% of Houstonians Want Public Transit to Fix Traffic While 6% Choose New Roads (Sylvester Turner)
• Demetria McCain: Dallas Needs Complete Neighborhoods Not Just “Affordable Housing” (Morning News)
• Night Club Moving From Sugar Land Strip Center to Downtown Houston (Swamplot)
• Houston Fattening Old Urban Grid Street at Light Rail Station With Planned TOD (Swamplot)
• Austin’s Independent Will Be Tallest Mostly Residential Building West of Mississippi (Wall Street Journal)
• Dallas’s Tiny Two-Station “Bike-Share” Had 73 Paying Customers in 6 Months (Dallas Observer)
• Get Your Tickets: San Antonio City Block Cinema Shows Winners of Neighborhood Film Project July 22
• Austin Vision Zero Team Has Mapped All Traffic Fatalities & Serious Injuries Over 5 Years
• Tell D Magazine About Your Favorite Dallas Neighborhoods

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• Looking Back at the Receipt for ARRA Stimulus Funds for Transportation in DFW (Morning News)
• More Than 5M Sq Ft of Industrial Construction at I-45 & I-20 South of Dallas (Morning News)
• Swamplot Looking for Editor to Entertain Militarily Preservationist Internet Do-Nothings
• TTI Takes on Scourge of Single Occupant Vehicles with Transportation Demand Management
• Dallas Observer Thinks Eminent Domain for Freeways Is Fine, But Street Grid Not Okay
• Sprawl Advocate Imagines 9 Cities on Houston’s 180-Mile Grand Parkway (Houston Strategies)
• What Other Cities Can Teach Dallas (& Texas) About Freeway Teardowns (D Magazine)
• Los Angeles Totally Copying Houston – To Improve Bus Network (Houston Chron)
• What Will Be San Antonio’s Next Pearl District? (Rivard Report)
• A Guide to Houston’s Bicycle Clubs (Houstonia)

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• Watch: Houston Tomorrow, BikeHouston Talk Complete Streets, Vision Zero on Public Access
• Can Texas Metros Find Local Fixes That Provide Real Affordability, Desegregation? (Morning News)
• SA Tomorrow Transportation Plan Open Houses in July and August, Bus Directions Included
• Houston’s East End Line Not Most Successful Modern Light Rail Line in U.S. (Houston Chron)
• One Dallas Neighborhood Still Has a Little 90-Year-Old Mixed Use Grocery Store (City Pages)
• Houston’s Opportunity Urbanist Joel Kotkin Fights for Continued Sprawl Subsidies (Planetizen)
• Witnesses Corner Driver Suspected in Hit-and-Run Motorcyclist Death (Morning News)
• CVS Replaces Houston Pub, Taqueria, Veterinary Clinic, and Cleaners With Parking Lot (Swamplot)
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• Houston Mayoral Candidate Pitches Road Repair / Jobs Training Concept (Houston Chron)
• Fully Subsidized DFW Area Freeways May Fall from 87% to 69% Share by 2035 (Morning News)
• At Current Rate of Funding, Austin Needs 200 Years to Complete Sidewalk System (KUT)
• Dallas Even Has NIMBYs Fighting Shadows in Downtown (Dallas Observer)
• White Oak Bayou Greenway First to Be Completed of 6 Funded By TIGER in 2013 (Click2Houston)
• Austin Parks Fee for New Development Recognizes Benefits of Density (Austin Monitor)
• Lowest Priority for Woodlands Transport Committee: Community Wide Transit (Your Houston News)
• APA Texas Chapter Conference in Galveston October 7-9, 2015

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