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Knitting Austin Back Together – Stitch #1

By Seth Goodman | Apr 7, 2015 | No Comments

At each of Capital Metro’s new MetroRapid stops, there is a map indicating the destinations to which you can supposedly walk. It looks like this: Featuring a reasonable half mile radius, the Lamar Square stop looks like it serves a sizable chunk of South Austin. Well, not quite. The streets colored black in the map […]

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

Scott Griggs: “Success Is Not a Toll Road to a Job in North Dallas, But an Elevator Ride to a Job in Southern Dallas” (Morning News)
Houstonians Yet to Grasp That Protected Bike Lane Is Not a Parking Spot (Houston Press)… Also Austinites
1,200 Units of Mixed-Use Walkable Urbanism and Parks Planned for ~70 Acres in Central Austin (KVUE)
1,800 Units of Drivable Sub-Urbanism Planned for 500 Acres in Northern DFW (Morning News)
Luxury 160-Unit, Mixed-Use Tower With Community Gardens Coming to Austin (CultureMap)
Fort Worth MTFP Asks Citizens What Matters Most When Designing Streets
Residents of Manufactured Homes in North Austin Form Neighborhood Association (KUT)

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Real-Time Bus Data Can Improve Effective Frequencies

By Dan Keshet | Apr 6, 2015 | No Comments

In February, Capital Metro expanded the reach of real-time bus data from the 801 and 803 routes to the entire fleet. There have been a few pieces about the promise of real-time data: the piece of mind of knowing your bus is actually on its way, the ability to save wait time by only heading […]

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Chattanooga, Choke Points, and a Choice: Trinity

By Patrick Kennedy | Apr 6, 2015 | No Comments

This is a multi-part post that you’re getting all at once since there is a lot to cover and the information, lessons, and ideas are all interrelated. Since Senator Royce West and former mayor and trade ambassador Ron Kirk have requested alternatives to the Trinity Toll Road, which should only serve to suggest, yeah, it’s […]

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By Jay Blazek Crossley | Apr 6, 2015 | No Comments

TXDOT Believes in Road Widening All the Way From Houston to San Antonio (San Antonio Express News)
…While Paying Top Dollar for the Land Needed for Fattening Those Roads (Dallas Morning News)
Alternative Proposal to Trinity Toll Road Saves Almost as Much Time for 1/10 the Cost (Morning News)
Metro Public Hearing on Service Changes Includes 15 New Light Rail Stations for Houston
Sinclair Black: Livability, Form-Based Code, Walkability Key to San Antonio’s Success
Wick Allison: Ending Failed Corbusier Traffic & Social Engineering Paradigm Key to DFW Success
Mayor Parker Celebrates First Bayou Greenways Day by Riding in Kidical Mass (Houston Chron)
Grand Prairie Mayor Ron Jensen Leading Cycling-With-the-Mayor Rides (Morning News)

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

10-Story, Walkable, Urban, Expensive Building Coming This Summer, Already Sold Out (Houston Chron)
Broadway Shaping Up to Be San Antonio’s Hot Walkable Mixed-Use Neighborhood (Business Journal)
Senate Passes Bill to Bar Cities From Barring Discrimination Based on Source of Income (Morning News)
NeighborWorks Waco Festival Using Arts and Culture to “Develop Our Urban Areas” (Baylor Lariat)
House Transportation Committee Passes Bill to Make TXDOT Study Removing Tolls (Morning News)
Effort to Declare Pedestrian Bridge a Landmark Could Hinder Trinity Toll Road (Morning News)
Drone Footage of Last Weekend’s Sunday Streets Houston on Westheimer (Swamplot)
San Antonio’s SA Tomorrow 3-in-1 Planning Effort Website is Live

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Talking Headways Podcast: Cowboys on Light Rail

By Jeff Wood | Apr 2, 2015 | No Comments

Christof Spieler joins me again to continue our discussion of Houston. This time we talk transportation and all the great things Houston is working on. Uptown, home to the highest building in the U.S. outside of a central business district, will soon be getting true Bus Rapid Transit, and people on bikes are now rolling next to the bayous and connecting […]

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

HB1 Has Passed 3rd Reading in House Without Anti-Bike, Anti-Transit Lane Measures (BikeTexas)
Houston First CEO Says Lack of Destination Appeal Cost Houston 374,000 Hotel Room Nights in 2014
Christof Spieler: Transit System Reimagining “the Most Meaningful Thing I Will Do In My Life” (Houstonia)
Hard to Keep Up With DFW Toll Roads People Don’t Want: I-35E & 67, Sunken on 75, Trinity Toll
Houston City Council Approves Memorial Park Master Plan. Some Worry “Too Nice” (CultureMap)
Big Rigs Often Go Faster Than Tires Are Supposed to, Especially in Texas at 85 mph (CBSDFW)
Road Spending Proponents Believe Less Oversight, Less Competitive Bidding Will Save Money (Brietbart)
UT-Dallas Getting Pedestrian-Friendly Mixed-Use TOD (Morning News), Unlike UT-Austin Joke
Not a Joke: As of April 1, Uber No Longer Available in San Antonio (KSAT)

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Jobs Getting Farther and Farther Away

By Patrick Kennedy | Apr 1, 2015 | No Comments

A new report from Brookings Institute is tracking not so much job loss/gain, but job losses and gains near where people live in terms of the amount of jobs near people and change in average commute length. Not to spoil the surprise, but car-dependent places perform poorly. As we know, car-dependent places have the most […]

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By Jay Blazek Crossley | Apr 1, 2015 | 2 Comments

Late Night HB1 Amendment: House Funds Complete University Light Rail Line in Houston (Houston Chron)
Anti-Bike, Transit Lane Amendment Dies on Point of Order in Texas House (@sbwhite)
New San Antonio Downtown Circulator Bus With 10 Minute Headways on Weekends (Rivard Report)
Plan for Lady Bird Lake Flyovers and Mopac Toll Lanes Stalls Following Public Objection (Austin Monitor)
DFW Area Building and Renting Out the Most Apartments in the Nation (Morning News)
Austin Police Have Issued 900 Tickets for Txting or Talking While Driving Since January (KXAN)
Plan to Fix Crumbling Dallas Streets Coming to Council on April 15 (Morning News)

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When Elon Musk Is Actually Wrong About Something

By Patrick Kennedy | Mar 31, 2015 | No Comments

So Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, and Elon Musk recorded a podcast where they discussed the issue of flying cars, which is really baked into the idea of alleviating the bogeyman of congestion. Now, these are three scientists/engineers/thinkers I couldn’t possibly have more respect for in the entire world. Musk goes on about the impracticality […]

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By Jay Blazek Crossley | Mar 31, 2015 | No Comments

Study: Yes, Sprawl + Road Subsidies Do Make Congestion Worse (Houston Chron)
Downtown San Antonio Drawing Empty Nesters (Business Journal)
…While Houston Seeks Sub-Urban Roots With Gated Pocket Community (Houston Chron)
NIMBYs Succeed at Stripping Apartments From Formerly Mixed-Use Development (Houston Chron)
Charles Marohn Worried Austin Traffic Congestion Plan [PDF] Will Cause More Congestion (KVUE)
Austin City Council Considers Requiring Clean Air Measures… for BBQ joints (KXAN)
Another Sad Milestone: Brazoria Commissioners Vote to Build Southern Grand Parkway (Guidry News)

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