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Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Jan 27, 2017 | No Comments

Chariot Testing Late Night For-Profit Transit Route Connecting 6th and Rainey Bars (Community Impact)
Dallas Spending $34M to Connect Street Grid in West Dallas Across Rail Track (Oak Cliff Advocate)
BikeHouston Answers All Your Questions About the Pending Houston Bike Plan
H-GAC TPC Approves All White Male Executive Committee, No City of Houston Member (HGAC)
Speed Limit Reduced on US290 Between Fredericksburg and Stonewall from 70 to 60 MPH (TXDOT)
Houston Using Tactical Urbanism to Test Placemaking During Super Bowl (Grace Rodriguez)

Maryland Robbed Transit to Pay for Highways, So U.S. DOT Launched a Civil Rights Probe

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 26, 2017 | No Comments

On the last day of the Obama presidency, U.S. DOT announced it will investigate whether Maryland Governor Larry Hogan's unilateral decision to cancel the Baltimore Red Line light rail project violates federal civil rights law. U.S. DOT will also look into whether the state's overall transportation spending discriminates against people of color.

Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Jan 26, 2017 | No Comments

Today’s Your Last Day to Comment on TXDOT’s South Austin I-35 Plans (Virtual Open House)
Houston Metro Will Consider Expanding Frequent Bus Network to Match Pedestrian Improvements (HPM)
Attn Pretend Eminent Domain Opponents: Routine TXDOT Road Building Takes 71 Parcels This Month (TTC)
Driver Who Killed 52-Year-Old Jeffrey Wall, Walking Across This Stroad, Turns Himself In (KRGV)
Anti-Transit Senator Konni Burton Files SB 385 to Kill All Passenger Rail (Virtual Builders Exchange)
CTRMA and TXDOT Fighting Over Toll Revenues From Expensive Flyovers (Monitor)
Dan Aykroyd Rides Amtrak and Advocates for US Passenger Rail in NARP Video

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Today Trump Gags the EPA. Tomorrow the GOP Strangles the Census.

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 25, 2017 | No Comments

Republicans want to cut off federal data that social science researchers depend on, limiting our ability to understand the effects of transportation and land use policy, especially on the most vulnerable Americans.

Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Jan 25, 2017 | No Comments

Austin to Charge More for On-Street Parking Downtown (KUT)
CAMPO to Study Pricy Car-Based Suburban Transit While Cap Metro Looks at All Transit (Statesman)
A Personal Story of the Burdens and Indignities of Living in Poor Urban Form Without a Car (OffCite)
San Antonio Plans to Change Broadway From Dangerous Stroad to Multimodal Complete Street (Rivard)
Texas High-Speed Rail, DFW Sprawl Rail on Possibly Fake List of Trump Infrastructure Plans (Morning News)
SA Mayor Ivy Taylor: “I’m Also an Urban Planner”
ATTN Texas Transpo Commission: TTI Has a New Guidebook for States on Intercity Passenger Rail (TTI)

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Senate Dems Put Out Their Own Trillion Dollar Infrastructure Plan

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 24, 2017 | No Comments

Senate Democrats have an infrastructure "blueprint" of their own, one that's weighted toward transit. The trouble is that Democrats have little power to set terms, and getting drawn into negotiations over an unnecessary infrastructure bill may not play out to their advantage.

via $The Urban Edge$

Houston’s Air Quality Is Improving, But Asthma Disparities Persist

By Leah Binkovitz | Jan 24, 2017 | No Comments

In Houston, black children have asthma at almost twice the frequency as white children.

Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Jan 24, 2017 | No Comments

Mayor Sylvester Turner Says Houston Needs to Reduce Parking to Maximize Efficiency (Houston Chron)
Austin’s New Downtown Rail Station Could Be Under Construction This Year (Community Impact)
Austin Joins People for Bikes’ “Big Jump” Project to Double or Triple Bicycling (ATD)
AAMPO Policy Council Prioritizes Building Loop 1604 Toll Lanes With Prop 7 Funds (Express-News)
Luis Rangel Jr. Loses Control of Truck, Kills Family of Four Near Midland (El Paso Proud)
Corpus Christi Police Not Sure How Many Drivers May Have Hit Man Killed on Bridge (Caller-Times)
You Can Advocate for Jollyville Road Diet at CAMPO Active Transportation Open House Today
ZipCar Opening Two Car-Share Locations in Houston Midtown Today (Fox26Houston)

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Kansas City Unveils a Streets Plan That Puts Walking First

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 23, 2017 | No Comments

The city's proposed $800 million infrastructure bond would pump money into sidewalks and street safety upgrades.

Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Jan 23, 2017 | No Comments

Somebody Thinks It Makes Sense to a 10-Story Parking Garage in Downtown Dallas (Morning News)
Now When Patrick Kennedy Tweets About Improving Transit, He’s Doing It as a DART Board Member
Austin Police Department Launching Targeted Enforcement of Dangerous Driving Behaviors (City of Austin)
CAMPO Regional Active Transportation Plan Public Meetings Start Today. Or Take the Survey.
City of Galveston to Complete a Bicycle Master Plan By Spring 2018 (Galveston County Daily News)
Archives of All 2016 Capital Metro Board Meetings Not Currently Available Online
Houston Parks Board Building Ped/Bike Bridge Next to a Light Rail/Car Bridge Over Brays Bayou by UH

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Can America’s Most Dangerous Place to Walk Change Its Streets?

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 20, 2017 | No Comments

The most dangerous metro area in America for walking is Fort Myers, Florida. The area has a committed group of reformers who've been making some strides, but a recent report shows more must be done.

Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Jan 20, 2017 | No Comments

The People of Houston Think Sidewalks Are the Most Poorly Done City Service (Houston Chron)
Terry Hershey, Titan of Houston’s Urban Environmental Movement, Dies at 94 (Houston Chron)
A Houston Metro Bus Full of People Filled Up With Flood Waters Yesterday (ViralHog)
Density More Important Than Building Efficiency in Fighting Climate Change (Grist)
Pedestrian Killed by Driver on This Terrifying Stroad in El Paso (El Paso Times)
Jury Finds TXDOT Guilty of Age Discrimination, Orders $254,440 Settlement (El Paso Times)
San Antonio Council Approves $850M Bond Vote With $600M for Transportation (SA Express-News)
Terrible News: CAMPO Consultants Forced to Reconsider Road Diet on Jollyville Road (CAMPO)

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