• Very Sad: Engineers, Elected Officials Want to Widen a Loop Road Around The Woodlands (Houston Chron)
• Key to Accessible Sidewalks in Houston — Get a Child to Write an Adorable Letter to the Mayor (ABC13)
• Early Voting Started Today to Elect San Antonio Mayor and Council and Decide on Bond (Info)
• DART Public Meetings Coming Up to Discuss 26-Mile Cotton Rail With Projected 16,000 Daily Riders
• Study: Unnecessary Freeway Expansion Would Reallocate DFW Wealth to Sub-urban Collin County (CBSDFW)
• TXDOT Awards Final Deals to Complete the Disaster Known as Houston’s 180-Mile Grand Porkway (Houston Chron)
• Someone Driving a Truck at a High Rate of Speed Killed a Grandmother, Father, and 2-Year-Old (Click2Houston)
• Push at #TXLege to Extend Controversial Public-Private Partnerships to Build Unnecessary Roads (Houston Chron)
• Roberto Cisneros, 27, Decided to Drive Drunk and Killed Someone by Running a Red Light (Morning News)
• It’s Time to End the Unfair, Inefficient Tolling of Transit Riders by Adding State Transit Funding (Morning News)

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• New Director of Texas Transportation Institute Likes to Leave His Car Idling While Inside Stores
• Nueces County Judge Loyd Neal: Don’t Interfere With Self Governance By Counties (Caller Times)
• Four Teenagers Injured in a T-Bone Crash This Morning in Fort Worth (Morning News)
• Houston’s Monthly Sunday Streets Event Is This Weekend in the Spring Branch Area
• Austin May Spend Another $750K Matched by Capital Metro to Discourage SOV Driving (KXAN)
• Add to the Long List of Costs of Driving: Freeway Noise Reduction (HPM)
• Latinos in American Are Disproportionately Likely to Be Killed While Walking (Salud Today)
• …The “Every Body Walk!” Social Justice Toolkit Can Help Build Safe Streets for All (Salud Today)
• SB 2103, the 20 MPH Safe Neighborhood Streets Bill, to Get Public Hearing on Wednesday

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• SCR 42, the Vision Zero Resolution, [Update: is on Intent Today. Vote Expected Next Week]
• Lawmakers Proceeding Statewide Rules for Ride Hailing Companies (Houston Chron)
• Houston Critical Mass Continues Growing, Could Use Some More Ride Leaders (Houston Chron)
• Denton Asks NCTCOG for Safe Routes to School Funds for Terribly Dangerous Streets (NBCDFW)
• Dallas Men Bilked Taxpayers Through Lax TXDOT Land Procurement Practices (Morning News)
• Houston Metro Looks Into Providing Buses to Areas That Choose Not to Pay Transit Taxes (HPM)
• Texas Work Zone Fatalities Rose 27 Percent Last Year, And Speed Is the Leading Cause (Patch)
• Texas Bill to Allow Testing of Robot Cars on Public Roads Passes Senate Committee (TechCrunch)

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• Kaz Wojtewicz: Let’s Tackle Austin’s Affordability Crisis Without Villainizing Newcomers (KUT)
• Dallas City Council Approves New 7-Year Contract for Red Light Cameras (Morning News)
• …Program Could Be Grandfathered in Even If Senate Version of Red Light Ban Passes (The Newspaper)
• Son of Man Killed in Texas Church Bus Crash Seeks Texting-and-Driving Ban (Morning News)
• Austin Capital Metro: Cut Your Carbon This Earth Day by Not Driving Solo
• We Have Mixed Feelings About San Antonio’s New Mobile Bike Show in a Van (Rivard)
• Austin Transportation Department Issues Brief Report on Pedestrian Access to Drive-Throughs
• Houston Bike to Work Day Is This Friday (City of Houston)
• In the Smart City Race, TechCrunch Is Betting on Transit

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• SUV Driver Hit a 5-Year-Old Girl on Her Scooter on This Dangerous Neighborhood Street (Morning News)
• Sylvester Turner: Don’t Take Away City Rights to Provide Transportation for People with Disabilities (Tribune)
• Christopher Koskinen Died From Driving at High Rate of Speed on Road Designed for High Speed (Morning News)
• Proposed CodeNEXT “Form-Based Zoning” Maps Released (Compare To Today’s Zoning, Download Shape Files)
• Details Still Murky on Turner’s Complete Communities Plans, But Won’t Involve New Money (Houston Chron)
• Amazingly, US PIRG’s Highway Boondoggles 3 Report Does Not Include a Texas Project in This Year’s List (Frontier Group)
• Proposed Houston Housing Budget Still Allocates Majority to Single-Family Homes (HoustonHCCD)
• Overhead Wire’s Jeff Wood Will Be in Austin Next Week and You’re Invited to His Happy Hour

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