• Capital Metro Explains Why They Aren’t Seriously Looking at Heavy Rail or Gondolas
• DART Board Added Four New Members Today, a Potential Paradigm Shift
• …But Yesterday, They Handed $17 Million in Transit Funding to Wealthy Suburban Cities (Morning News)
• Morning News: DART Must Raise Fares, But Should Provide Subsidies for Working Poor
• Mayor Nirenberg Explains Equitable Needs-Based Streets Repair Funding (SA Express News)
• Four Austin Council Members Want Greater Density, Equity in CodeNEXT (Spectrum)
• Impact Hub Austin Launches Affordable Housing Incubator Tonight
• Still Time to Get Involved With Park(ing) Day ATX, Coming Up on September 15

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• Center for Houston’s Future’s New CEO: “People Don’t Like Sprawl … We Have to Deal With It” (Urban Edge)
• Austin’s MetroRapids Went to All-Day 10-Minute Frequency This Weekend (Austin Mobility)
• Dallas City Council Weighing Four Different Downtown Streetcar Proposals (Morning News)
• NCTCOG Has Put $100 Million on the Table for Cotton Belt Sprawl Rail (CBSDFW)
• City of Fort Worth Investing $6.4 Million for Safe Routes to Schools With Half From the MPO (NBCDFW)
• Austin Report Proposes Bicycle Lanes in Median of Congress Avenue (Monitor)
• Austin City Council Loosens Up TOD Density Bonus Rules to Allow Affordable Housing (Monitor)
• Mike Heiligenstein, CEO of CTRMA, Calls for Regional Cooperation While Extolling Toll Roads (BizJournals)

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• Capital Metro Reopening Freight Service on Rail Line That Goes Half of Houston Intercity Rail Transit (Statesman)
• Gamify Regional Transit Planning at Project Connect Game Night, Thursday, August 24 at Scholz Garden
• Sprawl Caused by Building Unnecessary Roads Continues to Destroy Texas Farmland (Morning News)
• Meetings to Unveil Final CAMPO Regional Active Transportation Plan Start Tonight in San Marcos
• Hit-and-Run-Driver Killed Cyclist Rudolph Ruffo, 56 (Fox San Antonio)
• Richard Rothstein: Cities Should Remove Zoning Restrictions to Remedy Segregation (LATimes)
• City of Round Rock Now Has Bus Transit Service

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• Metro Chair Hopes Texas Central Will Help Pay for Local Transit Connections (Houston Chron)
• Austin City Council Makes Housing Coops Eligible for Affordable Housing Funds (KUT)
• Austin Sues State Over 2015 Law Forcing Cities to Allow Housing Discrimination (Monitor)
• Driver Crashes Into Bar Off Henderson Avenue in Old East Dallas (Morning News)
• Mayor Niremberg Launches Task Force to Address San Antonio Affordable Housing (Express News)
• Video: CAMPO TPB Chair Will Conley Advocates for Lowering Speed Limit on Suburban Road
• TTI Seeks Volunteers to Ride Campus Robot Shuttle Designed for People with Disabilities (WTAW)

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• Houston Signs High-Speed Rail MOU with Texas Central; Station in Uninhabited Dead Mall Area
• Electric Cars Will Not Reduce Carbon Emissions Much Any Time Soon (Houston Chron)
• Capital Metro’s Bus Service Expansion to Round Rock Goes Live on August 21
• American Society of Civil Engineers Support Vision Zero
• Capital Metro Advocates Against Road Building
• Houston’s Private Toll Road Builder Falsely Claims That It Won’t Induce Traffic (HPM)

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