Arlington Experimenting With Driverless Shuttles
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After earning a reputation as the biggest U.S. city without transit, does a new driverless shuttle service mark a shift?
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Some on Dallas Council Want to Replace DART Appointees Supportive of Suburban Rail (Morning News)
- HEB Building Mixed-Use “Urban Prototype” Grocery Store on Wash Ave (Houston Chron)
- House Passes Rep. Israel Bill to Allow CapMetro to Run Buses on Freeway Shoulders (Monitor)
- Mayor Turner Proposes 17% Cut to Planning Department But 18% Increase in Transpo Planning
- CTRMA Adds Two New Board Members
- To Mitigate DFW Traffic Impact, Toyota Donates $1M to Buy Low-Income Folks Cars (Morning News)
- Kinder Research Looks at How Dangerous Streets Limit Walking and Biking (NextCity)
- Texas House Members Want to Add Anti-Transgender Bigotry to Bill to Continue TXDOT (Statesman)
- City of Laredo Working on a Beautiful Form Based Code (MuellerATX)
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Why School Choice Is Also About Transit
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Because a big part of school is getting there.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Meetings on Houston’s I-45 With Brewery Option — This Is a Huge Deal (Houston Chron)
- Taylynn Carrol Cumpton, Age 2, Killed in Car Crash (Abilene News)
- UCLA Study Explains How Decreasing Travel Speeds Can Increase Access (ITS)
- Poor Urban & Transportation Planning Means Economic Development = Traffic (Morning News)
- Dallas Put a Very Pretty Crosswalk in at McKinney and Lemon (Walkable DFW)
- Arlington Has Signed a Contract for Robot Vans to Fill Transit Gaps (SSTI)
- In Its Uber Investigation, the Justice Department Is Talking to Austin City Staff (KUT)
- Free Austin Tech Alliance Tech and Transportation Event — June 20, 6:30 p.m.
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What Happens When Pedestrians and Bicyclists Are Afraid of Certain Routes
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We asked pedestrians and bicyclists to tell us about their close calls on the road. The results are harrowing.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick Currently Blocking Txting Ban From a Senate Vote (Statesman)
- Brazoria County Officials Hope Freeway Widening Finally Works This Time (HPM)
- TXDOT Hopes Widening I-35 in Dallas Finally Works This Time (Construction Dive)
- Boy Fleeing From Wild Dogs on His Bike Struck By Driver on a Neighborhood Street (KSAT)
- Texas House Rejects Bill That Would Have Accelerated Road Expansions Using Tolls (Tribune)
- A Drunk Driver Killed a Young Couple Sunday Morning in Dallas (Morning News)
- Disruptive Tech Coming to Take Over Our Cities: Bicycles (CNN)
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Only Six Cities Are Worthy of Rail Funding, Manhattan Institute Scholar Decrees
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A new report from Manhattan Institute senior fellow Aaron Renn argues that the federal government should stop supporting new rail lines in cities across the country and instead focus on repair work in six "legacy cities." The problem is that, by ignoring the way many of those "legacy cities" got their rail systems in the first place, Renn's proposal would cut off transit's nose to spite its face, and needlessly condemn American cities to car dependence in the process.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Austin Council Okays Converting 5th Street to Two-Way After First Ever Nighttime Traffic Study (Monitor)
- DART Wants You to Fill Out This Survey on Satisfaction With Rail
- 44 Of Texas’s 100 “Most Congested” Roadways Are in the Houston Region (Houston Chron)
- Awash in Evidence to the Contrary, TXDOT Claims Freeway Widening Reduces Congestion (Click2Houston)
- Austin’s First Batch of Mobility Bond Spending Includes $14 Million for Walk, Bike, and Vision Zero (Monitor)
- Marisa Nicole Vargas, 23, Killed in Car Crash; “No Family Is Ever Prepared” for Traffic Fatalities (MySanAntonio)
- #TXLege Senate Draft of TXDOT Sunset Bill Fails to Correct #CrashNotAccident Codified in Law
- El Paso Sun Metro and Austin Capital Metro Think of Themselves as Jedi
- TXDOT Thinks of Itself as the Empire
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AAA’s Latest Road Safety Report Ignores the Obvious: We Should Be Driving Less
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The number of annual traffic deaths in America is heading in the wrong direction, climbing back above the 40,000 mark. To reverse this trend, the AAA Foundation for Road Safety this week released a report that prioritizes six road design changes it says would do the most to reduce the death toll. There's just one problem: AAA's report doesn't consider the idea that, to save lives, we should be driving less.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- SB 2103 Passes Senate Transpo Committee 5-1; Senator Nichols: “I’m Okay With It”
- Driver Kills 3-Year-Old Boy Playing Ball on His Neighborhood Street in Fort Worth (Morning News)
- Can Austin Still Adopt a Form-Based Code That Takes Climate Change Seriously? (KUT)
- Time Spent Hearing from “Neighborhoods” Means Enviro Commission Not Able to Work on CodeNEXT (Monitor)
- Awesome Ai Weiwei Bicycle Sculpture Will Be Installed on Waller Creek in Austin (Statesman)
- There’s Some Tactical Urbanism Going On in Houston EaDo Neighborhood (BikeHouston)
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House and Senate Decline Trump’s Request to Gut Transit Funding, For Now
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Yesterday, Congress came out with a funding package that keeps the government operating until the end of September. Officially, it's known as the omnibus appropriations package for fiscal year 2017. Unofficially, it's a Republican Congress ignoring the wishes of President Donald J. Trump, and for transit projects around the country, it's what amounts to good news these days.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Martha Blazek, Pine Tree ISD Middle School Nurse, Killed in Car Crash (KLTV)
- One Third of San Antonio Campaign Donations Come From Real Estate Industry (Express News)
- El Paso MPO Presents Draft 2045 Regional Transportation Plan (KVIA)
- There’s Still Time to Put Transit on the Table for Oltorf and Pleasant Valley (CapMetro)
- TXDOT’s Mesa Street Corridor Study Looking at Improvements for Users of All Modes (KVIA)
- City of Houston Staff to Present Annual Complete Streets Update Today at 6 p.m. (BikeHouston)
- El Paso Mayoral Candidates Arguing Funding, Process Instead of Design of Streets (El Paso Times)
- Write Your State Senator Now to Support a Zero Fatality Goal — Especially DFW Folks
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