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Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Feb 10, 2017 | No Comments

Rep. Celia Israel Files HB 1677 to Create a Texas Vision Zero Task Force (News4SA)
Parents Fear for Their Children’s Lives During Elementary School Pickup Dominated by Cars (KVIA)
Texas High Speed Rail Company Has Bought Land Options for 1/3 of Houston-Dallas Line (Houston Chron)
Austin City Council Forces Capital Metro to Limit a Mixed-Income Transit-Oriented Development (Monitor)
An Immigration & Customs Enforcement Officer Conducted a Traffic Stop in Austin This Morning (Statesman)
Dallas’s Transit Woes Part of Familiar History of Segregation Urbanism (D Magazine)
Opportunity for Complete Streets: Houston Capital Improvement Plan Meetings (City of Houston)
Rural Texans Drive More and Use Other Modes Less Than Suburban or Urban Texans (TTI)
Saturday: Chopped and Screwed: A Walking Tour of Uncommon History in Houston’s Freedman’s Town

via $Austin Contrarian$

Let’s leave shallow lots alone

By Chris Bradford | Feb 9, 2017 | No Comments

CodeNEXT proposes doing some good things (reducing parking requirements!) but also some bad things. Two of those bad things -- and they're very bad -- are setting a minimum lot depth for single family homes and increasing the required minimum...

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By Jay Blazek Crossley | Feb 9, 2017 | No Comments

Austin, Houston, and Fort Worth Join Rep. Celia Israel to Announce Safe Neighborhood Streets Bill
3 Things to Know About the Texas State Bill to Lower Speed Limits (Community Impact)
Applications Open for Summer Internships on Transportation Safety at TTI
Oklahoma City Breaking Ground on Its First Streetcar Line (OKC Streetcar)
Four People Killed in Three-Vehicle Crash on I-359 Near Laredo (LMTOnline)
Austin Is One of Five Winners of Smart Cities Challenge Grant (Smart Cities Council)
Trump Laments Lack of High-Speed Rail in the U.S. (The Hill)

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via $The Urban Edge$

How Historic Racism Shaped Atlanta’s Transportation Network

By Leah Binkovitz | Feb 8, 2017 | No Comments

Leah Binkovitz | February 8, 2017 As Atlanta considers a new approach to transportation, a report links the region's history of racism with today's transit inequities.

Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Feb 8, 2017 | No Comments

San Antonio Mayoral Debate Reflects Growing Frustration Over Transportation Issues (Rivard)
Houston Chronicle Kind of Calls for a Vision Zero Action Plan
Grocery-Anchored, Vertical Mixed-Use Apartments Break Ground in Midtown Houston (BizJournals)
Developer Sees Downtown San Antonio Market Heating Up, Increasing Units in Project (Express News)
Austin’s the Best Place to Live in America; Houston, Dallas, San Antonio Also Cool (US News)
Dallas Will Officially Not Have a Transportation Bond on the May Ballot (Morning News)
Ford CEO: Cars Aren’t Very Important to Future of Cities (Business Insider)
Houston Metro Adding Bus Frequency and Adjusting Timing to Meet Demand (Metro)
TTI Wants You to Fill Out This Survey to Help TXDOT Optimize Managed Lanes

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Bicycling Education in the United States Needs an Update

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 7, 2017 | No Comments

Thousands of people in North America are exposed to rules of thumb in cycling training courses each year. But how good is the advice?

Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Feb 7, 2017 | No Comments

Someone Deliberately Used a Car as a Weapon to Kill Ernestina Limon-Ocana, 36, in a Parking Lot (KXAN)
El Paso City Council May Fund Feasibility Study for Transit to Juarez (KVIA)
Metro Light Rail’s Record-Setting Day Before Super Bowl: 109,500 Trips (Houston Chron)
Driver Runs Through Stop Sign and Injures Six People, Including Two Children (Morning News)
Houston Renters Own Significantly Fewer Cars Per Family Than Home Owners (Houston Planning)
AAMPO Pushes Radical TXDOT Traffic Forecast, Falsely Says Suburban Traffic Growing Faster Than Urban (KENS5)
“Money No Longer Top Concern” at Texas Transportation Forum, With Glut of Spending (Star-Telegram)
Texas Central Drops All Lawsuits, Will Work With Landowners to Begin HSR Construction (Morning News)

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via $Austin Contrarian$

The Missing “Missing Middle”

By Chris Bradford | Feb 6, 2017 | No Comments

I have created a table* to show which building types are allowed in which of CodeNEXT's 13 transect zones. The highlighted rows are the "missing middle" types of housing we've heard so much about the last four years. (Click to...

via $The Urban Edge$

Houstonians Are Pretty Happy With Their Neighborhoods, But Experiences Vary

By Leah Binkovitz | Feb 6, 2017 | No Comments

Leah Binkovitz | February 6, 2017 Houston's black and Hispanic residents reported higher rates of abandoned buildings and other quality of life concerns than white and Asian residents.

Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Feb 6, 2017 | No Comments

Houston Light Rail Was Running Two Cars at 3-4 Minute Headways for Super Bowl (Metro)
Second Person Dies Riding a Bicycle on Houston Light Rail Tracks in Three Days (Houston Chron)
TXDOT Heard from Disney Imagineers at Texas Transportation Forum (TXDOT)
AMTRAK Confirms It’s Working on Austin-San Antonio Commuter Rail Study (TPR)
…San Antonio Mayor Race Now a Referendum on Rail Proposals (Express News)
A Long Primer on What Austin’s CodeNEXT Is All About (Curbed)

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Trump’s Bid to Insert Immigration Status Into Census Is an Attack on Cities

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 3, 2017 | No Comments

Adding a question about immigration status to the Census would lead to undercounting and affect everyone who lives in urban areas, decreasing their access to federal resources.

Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Feb 3, 2017 | No Comments

Reports From the Arlington Demonstration of Driverless Mini Bus (Star-Telegram)
It’s Remarkable That Houston’s Super Bowl Celebrations Are in a Dense Walkable Place
Christopher Michael Killed Ivan Rincon Ramos, Who Was Trying to Run With His Two Sons Across This Dangerous Road With Closest Pedestrian Crossings Two Miles Away (KLTV)
Someone Died This Morning Biking on Metro Light Rail Tracks (Houston Chron)
Austin Car2Go Switching Most of Fleet From Smart Cars to BMWs (512 Tech)
Late Notice: Free Talk on Texas Transportation Equity Assessment Today, 12:30 at UT – Austin
Do Houston’s New Arty LED Lighting on Freeway Overpasses Calm Traffic? (TXDOT HOU)

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