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

Senate Conferees for SJR 5 (Requiring Road Spending): Nichols, Nelson, Whitmire, Eltife, & Hall
TXDOT: Prop 1 Spending Not Just For Expanding Roads, Also to “Enhance Safety for Drivers”
H-GAC TIP Call for Projects: $3B Proposed for Roads, $46M for Transit, $47M for Ped/Bike
Dallas Morning News Says Regional Mobility Authorities Have Spent $1 Billion, Gained Nothing
Anti-Toll Texas Tea Party Appears Powerless Against the Need for Road Spending (Quorum Report)
City of Austin Paying Overtime to Catch Up to Development Review Backlog (Community Impact News)
Bill to Require Cities to Allow Fracking Passes Senate, Heads to Governor (Quorum Report)
Greg Abbott: “It’s a Sad Day in Texas When a Guy in a Wheelchair Can Move Faster Than Traffic on Our Congested Roads” (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

via $Austin On Your Feet$

Planning Commission Fiddles While Austin Rents Burn

By Dan Keshet | May 4, 2015 | No Comments

Austin’s new City Council members were elected on a platform of affordability. In a recent zoning case, the majority have turned to the straightforward, economically literate explanation for why our central city prices are burning so hot: too many people want to live in not enough homes (1 2). But Planning Commission, made up of […]

Study: Most Roads Don’t Pay for Themselves

By Angie Schmitt | May 4, 2015 | No Comments

Most American roads — even the most highly trafficked — are financial losers. That’s a major finding from a new study by the Center for American Progress [PDF]. Four out of 10 American highways don’t generate enough revenue to pay for maintenance. Photo: Wikipedia A financial analysis by the think tank found that about four out of 10 U.S. [...]

Today’s Headlines

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

Creative Writing Class Offered on TRE Train Between Downtown Dallas and Fort Worth (Morning News)
Corpus Christi Police Chief and Father of Four Floyd Simpson Dies in Motorcycle Crash (Morning News)
Tory Gattis: Why Do Managed Potential BRT Lanes Dead End Downtown in TXDOT Plan?
High Line Developer: Lose Renderings, Allow More Ideas for Elevated Park to Grow (Houston Chronicle)
Some Austin Limo Drivers Demanding Loosened Regulations Now That Uber/Lyft Got Them
Streetfilms Reflects on Walking Fort Worth and Dallas, Where a Bunch of New Urbanists Walked Last Week
San Antonio Downtown Pop Up Shops to Offer No-Cost Short Term Leases to Local Entrepreneurs

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Putting TIGER Spending in Perspective

By Angie Schmitt | May 1, 2015 | No Comments

Federal spending on TIGER compared to the total cost of various U.S. highway projects. Image: Streetsblog The House’s current transportation spending bill calls for reducing the share of federal spending that goes to TIGER, a grant program for sustainable transportation projects in cities, from $500 to $100 million. The budget, meanwhile, holds highway funding steady. Indianapolis’s cultural [...]

Today’s Headlines

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

Gerald D. Hines: We Will All Pay the Price for the Lack of Transit (Houston Business Journal)
House Passes Disastrous Bill (SJR 5) to Require Road Spending in Texas Constitution (TAG)
Rep. Stickland and Anti-Red Light Camera Bill Tossed From Transpo Committee Meeting (Statesman)
Kinder: Majority of Houstonians See Transit and Walkable Streets as Best Traffic Solution
Little Free Libraries Are Apparently a Code Violation in Dallas; City Trying To Fix (Morning News)
It’s Bike Month Y’all

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via $Houston Tomorrow$

We Don’t Vote on New Roads — Why Rail?

By jay.crossley@houstontomorrow.org | Apr 30, 2015 | No Comments

Beginning with early voting and continuing through the May 9 election date, San Antonio’s registered voters will cast votes that will have an impact on our city. Not only will voters decide on which candidates will lead San Antonio, they will decide whether to amend our City Charter; San Antonio’s…

Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Apr 30, 2015 | No Comments

Charlie Contreras, Retired Dallas Firefighter and Father of Three, Killed by Drunk Driver (Morning News)
Pat Digiovanni: Vote No on SA Anti-Transit Prop 1. Or Should All Roads Require a Vote? (Rivard Report)
Sen Bob Hall Claims TTI Study Shows Red Light Cameras Don’t Improve Safety; Morning News Calls BS
Vonciel Jones Hill Calls Trinity River a Big Ditch, Demands Toll Road at House Hearing (Dallas Observer)
3D Renderings of TXDOT Freeway Removal Proposal Shows That We’re Still Talking Lots of Freeway
Attention Chuck Marohn: Montgomery County Judge Claims Debt for New Roads Builds Tax Base
Will Statewide Uber, Lyft Bill Break the Fair Playing Field Dallas Just Established? (Morning News)
A Bicycle Crash is Now a Crash, According to New APD Reporting Rules (Austin On A Bike)

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Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Apr 29, 2015 | No Comments

TTI: 82 Percent of Personal Cars Will Burn Fuel in 2040. Future Asks: What’s a Personal Car, Grandma?
Houston IDM Ch. 10 Comments Due April 30; You Want Complete Streets; Sidewalks; Slow, Safe Speeds
Apparently People Like Being in Sociable, Walkable Places With Transit, Like Uptown Dallas (Candy’s Dirt)
Republicans Don’t Want the Trinity Toll Road Even More Than Democrats Don’t Want It (Morning News)
Dallas Mayor Rawlings’ “Grow South” Funding “Mini Mayors” for Three Neighborhoods (Morning News)
DFW Home Prices Up 8.6 Percent Since Last Year, Now Back Above 2006 Peak (Dallas Observer)
Bike to Work, Take a Selfie, Post With #ibike2work, and Karbach Will Give You a Free Beer
Houstonians Soon Will Enjoy a Walk-Up Cupcake ATM in Highland Village (Swamplot)

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The Importance of Block Sizing

By Joe Esposito | Apr 28, 2015 | No Comments

In my last post, we talked about the North End apartment complex in Victory Park. With its high black gates, I noted how the complex cut off the flow of traffic and disrupted the city’s street grid. Let’s now turn our attention to a newer development in the southeast corner of downtown – the Camden […]

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

Hildebrand Foundation Donates $10M to Houston Bayou Greenways (CultureMap)
U.S. EPA Smart Growth Dept. Guide: Creating Equitable, Healthy, and Sustainable Communities
Plano Provides Millions in Incentives for Office Campus on Toll Road (Morning News)
Early Voting Is On in Dallas and San Antonio (Dallas, San Antonio)

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You Can Help Make State DOTs Accountable for How They Spend

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 27, 2015 | No Comments

States have failed to prioritize maintenance instead of expansion. Will new standards help? Image: Smart Growth America Pressure is mounting on the president and Congress to keep roads and bridges from falling apart by increasing transportation funding. But a big part of the problem is states, which receive the lion’s share of federal transportation funds but opt to spend [...]

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