• Texas House Budget Gives TXDOT All Available Funds, Doubling Roads Spending Over Next Decade (Statesman)
• Statewide Vision Zero Resolution to Have Public Hearing in Senate Committee Wednesday at 8 a.m.
• Houston Metro Spending $16.5 Million Over 5 Years on Universal Accessibility (Houston Chron)
• City of Houston Annual Complete Streets Report Says a Pedestrian Plan Is Coming, Some Day
• Reminder: Help Capital Metro‘s Ambitious Transit Expansion Serve More People Not More Miles
• Police Investigating Why Six People Were Injured in One Crash on this Race Track of a Road in El Paso (KVIA)
• The Remodel of Speedway on the UT Campus Into a Pedestrian Mall Is Rad (Statesman)
• TXDOT Call for Projects for Pedestrian and Bicycle Funding Now Open for Small Metros
• A Fort Worth Hit-and-Run Driver Killed Wheelchair User Kurt Wheeler, 56 (Morning News)

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• This US290 Freeway Widening That Forces the Closure of HOV Lane Has Zero Transit Improvements (HPM)
• New Apartment Construction Soaring in the Dallas Fort Worth Region (Morning News)
• Public Private Partnerships Have Mixed Results in Texas Toll Roads (NBCDFW)
• The Economist Firmly Stands Against “Free Parking”
• Only One Week Left to Submit Comments on Changes to CAMPO TIP and Its Millions in Road Spending
• El Paso’s Sun Metro Struggling With Lower Ridership While Trying to Improve Service (KVIA)
• Capital Metro Asks Area Teenagers to Explain Benefits of Transit in Videos

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• Trump Budget Proposal Would Eliminate All Intercity Passenger Train Service in Texas (Mass Transit Mag)
• Austin Creatives Trying to Make Sure CodeNEXT Allows for Live/Work Units & Music Spaces (Monitor)
• Austin Commission Empowered to Segregate Land Uses Doesn’t Know What It Is Doing (Monitor)
• Bills Messing With Texas Bullet Train Pass Out of Senate Transportation Committee (Houston Chron)
• Austin’s Alternative to $100 Million Freeway Connectors: Retime the Traffic Lights (KXAN)
• Houston Installing 8 New Bike-Share Stations a Month for the Rest of the Year (Houston Bcycle)
• Man Who Intentionally Swerved to Hit Motorcyclist Gets 15 Years in Jail (Morning News)
• Drunk Livingston Driver Killed Justin Carl Schlotzhauer Walking on Sidewalk (KTRE)

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• TXDOT Responds to Legislators’ Questions About High-Speed Rail (Tribune)
• AECOM Develops Texas L Hyperloop Proposal: HOU – SA – ATX – DFW (Houston Chron)
• Here’s How Austin Taskforce Wants to Address Institutional Racism (KUT)
• National Transportation Safety Board Finishes On-Site Investigation of Church Bus Crash (TPR)
• Margarita Victoria Tobon Arrested for Hitting 7-Year-Old on Bike and Driving Away (Lubbock Online)
• Ghost Bike Memorial Placed on Main Street for Rice Professor Marjorie Corcoran (Houston Chron)
• Hmmm… UT Police Department Stepping Up Bike Enforcement to Protect Pedestrians (Daily Texan)
• Extreme Open Streets: Bike Portion of Ironman Race May Be On Hardy Toll Road (Houston Chron)

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• If Congress Doesn’t Undo Obama MPO Rule By May 9, Austin & San Antonio MPOs Will Merge (Hill)
• DART Says Burton’s Anti-Transit Bill Threatens Downtown Subway, Not Just Cotton Line (Morning News)
• Driver Kills 15-Year-Old Fleeing Texas Foster Care System, Walking on Stroad (Morning News)
• Texas Senators May Understand the Need for Texting Ban After a Texting Driver Killed 13 People (Tribune)
• …Mark Davis Opposes a Ban in Favor of Vague Proposals (Morning News)
• Louisiana Lawmakers Join Texas Peers in Seeking to Have More People Die at Red Lights (Fox8)
• Four People Killed in Crash in Odessa, Three of Them Not Wearing Seat Belts (Odessa American)
• Waco Transit Had 44% Increase in Ridership Last Year After Taking Over Rural Service (KWTX)

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• Three Young Women Killed Turning Onto 4-Lane SH71 West of Austin — Road Diet Needed (Statesman)
• Anti-High Speed Rail Bills Will Have Their Senate Committee Hearing Wednesday (Statesman)
• What’s Hot in DFW? Walkability and a 24-Hour City (Morning News)
• Sara Hernandez de Guerrero Failed to Yield ROW at a Stop Sign and Killed Kimberly Skinner (KTRE)
• San Antonio’s VIA Hosting Workshops on Rapid Transit Corridors Tonight and Next Monday
• Austin Pedestrian Advisory Council to Consider Requiring Ped Access at Drive Throughs
• 251 Bills Have Been Referred to the House Transportation Committee, and One Has Made It Out

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