• In Party Line Vote, Senate Committee Advances SB15, Which Will Increase Distracted Driving Deaths (Tribune)
• …But It Was Not Rushed to Today’s Senate Floor Calendar, Like Other Bills Passed Out of Committee Over Weekend
• …House Committees Start Having Hearings This Week — SB15 Not Included
• Cap Metro Event Wednesday: Experts From Dallas, Denver to Discuss Failure of Suburban-Focused Transit Model
• Houston Tomorrow Event Wednesday: David Crossley Leads Independent Discussion of Metro Next
• Bus Ridership Up in Seguin Following Changes Made to Routes Last Year (SeguinToday)
• TXDOT’s New “Walk. Bike. Safe. Texas” Program Focusing on Pedestrian, Bicycle Safety in Harris County
• Local Leaders Pushing for Reconnecting AMTRAK From New Orleans (and Houston) to Florida (The Advocate)
• Texas Roads Serving as Testing Ground for Uber Freight (Morning News)

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• Texas State Rep Pat Fallon Files HB 250 to Legalize Killing Protestors with Car (@EmilyAMcCann)
• Rep Joaquin Castro Asks Elon Musk to Build The Texas L Hyperloop First (Washington Examiner)
• Metro Could Outsource to Harris County Toll Road Authority for Its HOT Lanes (Houston Chron)
• Houston Chronicle: City’s New Parks Director Should Focus on Making Us More Active
• News Story About Cell Phone Pole Installed to Block Sidewalk Prompts Public Works to Fix It (KHOU)
• As Building “Affordable” Single Family Homes Gets Harder, Sprawl Builders Shift to Missing Middle (KUT)
• Regional Mobility Authority Hosts Podcast With Real Estate Industry on “Affordability” and Growth
• Podcast: Why Houston Has So Much Parking, Episode Two (Houston Chron)

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• First Two Seats on Texas Bullet Train Reserved for Barbara and George HW Bush
• Senator Huffines’ SB15 to Kill More People With Distracted Driving Will Get a Hearing Saturday Morning
• Capital Metro to Increase MetroRapid Frequency to Every 10 Minutes and Extend Hours on August 20
• Janette Sadik-Khan Was Inside City of Houston 611 Walker Building, Talking About Ped/Bike Safety (@margwallbrown)
• Austin B-cycle Is Expanding. So Why Are All The New Stations Near Downtown? (KUT)
• Capital Metro’s Pilot Pickup Service Seeing 9 Riders Every Hour, Called a Success (KVUE)
• Here’s the Travis County Citizen Bond Advisory Committee Minority Report
• Capital Metro Bringing “National Experts” to Traffic Jam Event on Wednesday, July 26

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• Hit-and-Run Driver Leaves Pedestrian Fighting for Her Life in Memorial Area (Houston Chron)
• Houston Planning Dept and Bloomberg Associates Working on Safe Routes to Schools in East End
• People Who Think Buses Will Bring Bad People to Spring Turned Out at Metro Meeting (Houston Chron)
• Capital Metro Needs Another Year to Deploy New Bus Network While City Adds Bus Lanes
• Group of Travis County Citizen Bond Advisory Committee Members Oppose Road Expansion (Monitor)
• Austin Bike Crashes Are Declining as More People Ride, Thanks to Safer Infrastructure (CBS Austin)
• Mayor Nirenberg Wants to Stop Planning and Start Digging to Build Light Rail (KSAT)
• Houston Metro Has Grants Available for “Transit-Oriented” Projects Across Houston UZA

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• Four Different Bills to Encourage Distracted Driving or Discourage It Filed by #TXLege
• 26 Mayors Representing Almost 10 Million Texans Ask Governor Abbott for a Meeting
• Powerful Far-Right “Empower Texans” Calls for State to Overrule Local Parking Minimums Like California
• Texas Public Policy Foundation Calls for Removal of Local Restrictions on Housing in Urban Centers (Tribune)
• WalkAustin Raising $1,412 to Apply for 501c3 Nonprofit Recognition
• Dallas Cowboys’ Ezekiel Elliott – Frequent Crasher of Cars – Ticketed for Driving 100 MPH (Morning News)
• Abbott Threatens Calling Second Special Session If Sunset and Sine Die Happens (Tribune)
• San Antonio Architects Submit Ideas to Make City Hall Accessible to All (Rivard)
• San Antonio’s Next Síclovía Will Be October 22

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• People Who Made Terrible Housing Location Decisions Explain TXDOT Road Expansion (Rivard)
• Spring Publisher Wants Transit, But Not Buses, Because Bigotry (Spring Happenings)
• Mayor Adler Unveils Grand Plan to Fix Up All of East Side of Downtown (Austin Council Forum)
• Fort Hood Soldier, Spc. James Thomas Smith IV, Dies in Motorcycle Crash (Morning News)
• 19-Year-Old Man Kills Himself Driving Fast on 635 Freeway Late at Night (Morning News)
• Reality Check: Poverty Rates Are Much Lower in the Suburbs (City Observatory)
• Podcast: Why Houston Has So Much Parking (Houston Chron)
• Tickets Available for Austin Yellow Bike Project Bicycle Commuting 101 Class on July 22

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• Dallas Morning News: DART Focus on Rail Hurts Those Who Need Transit Most
• Former Webb County Judge Ricardo Rangel Injured in Crash That Killed Noe Alex Moreno (LMTonline)
• Oklahoma City Mayoral Candidate Tours Transit with State Rep Bennett and EMBARK Board Member
• Verizon Building Mixed-Use “Technology-Infused” Transit-Oriented Development in Irving (Morning News)
• Three People Killed in Six-Vehicle Crash on I-35 in Waco (KCENTV)
• Christof Spieler Stars at NYC Summit on Bus Network Redesigns (TransitCenter)
• …Austin CapMetro’s Lead Planner – Currently Working on Connections 2025 Redesign – Was There
• …DART Board Member – Leading Charge for Their Redesign – Was Also There

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