• Houston Planning Commission Has Formed a Walkable Places Committee! 1st Meeting: Wed 1/11, 4pm
• Hit-and-Run Tahoe Driver Struck and Killed While Fleeing, by 2nd Tahoe Driver, Who Also Fled (Houston Chron)
• Jesse Copeland, 22, Killed Walking Across High-Speed SH155 Outside Tyler, But “Not at a Crosswalk” — Closest Pedestrian Crossings Are 21.9 Miles Apart (KTRE)
• The Texas Legislature Does Not Reflect the Gender, Race, Ethnic Diversity of the State (KUT)
• Waco MPO Has Costly Options to Widen I-35, Isn’t Considering “Reconnect Waco” (WacoTrib)
• CAMPO Active Transportation Plan Public Meeting Starting Week of Jan 23 (CAMPO)
• Craddick and Zaffarini Starting Another Push to Ban Txting While Driving (HPM)

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• Tally of Over 100 Transportation-Related Bills at the #TXLege Shows Focus on Financing MOAR ROADS (TTI)
• Add to the List of Costs Due to Truck Freight: Total Closure of I-10 in Houston This Weekend (HPM)
• ABC13: A Car (Not a Driver) Hit and Killed a Man on a Bridge, Wonders Why He Was Walking There
• ABC13: A Car (Not a Driver) Hit and Injured Shelby Price, 19, Whose Grandmother Was Killed Walking
• Statesman Refutes Flimsy Data That Uber/Lyft Exit Increased DWI
• Turns Out Rapidly Sprawling Hays County Is Not Affordable for Millennials (KUT)
• CapMetro Explains Riding Transit on the 5 Cold Days of the Year

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• Dallas Mayor Opposes Streets Bond Because Private Interests Won’t Pay to Lobby Citizens (Observer)
• Forth Worth Wants Transportation User Fee on Water Bills, But Also MOAR ROADS! (Star-Telegram)
• Houston Pedestrian Deaths Up 30% From Previous Year; Changes to Streets Needed (HPM)
• San Antonio Pedestrian Deaths Up 40% From Previous Year; Lower Speeds, Crosswalks Needed (KSAT)
• Neighbors Previously Demanded Crosswalk Where 75-Year-Old San Antonio Man Died Using Walker (KSAT)
• Alamo Area MPO Misuses Term “Accident” While Supporting Vision Zero (News4SA)
• …Asks for San Antonio Residents to Report Dangerous Intersections Directly to the MPO (AAMPO)
• Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Pedestrian Trying to Cross I-45 Freeway in Houston, Then Crashes Again (mySA)

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• Hallelujah! Austin’s MetroRapid Fares to Be Lowered to Match Local Bus This Sunday (Community Impact)
• About 100 Semi Truck Drivers Got Lost in El Paso Detour of Closed Freeway With Bad Wayfinding (KFOX14)
• Dense, Walkable, Mixed-Use Areas Were Key to Houston Getting the Super Bowl (Houston Chron)
• 21-Year-Old Man Dies in Single-Vehicle Rollover Crash on Dallas Freeway (Morning News)
• Metro Offering Free Feeder Service to Connect MetroLift Users to Fixed Route System (Write On Metro)
• Houston’s Hit-and-Run Problem: Ghost Bikes Honor ‘Invisible Dead’ (Guardian)
• San Antonio Largest City in Nation Without Rail Transit, But Residents Want It (Texas Public Radio)
• The Whole Subway Thing Is Real: DART Public Meeting on D2 Downtown Subway – Jan 19 (DART)

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• I-45 in Houston Is #1 for Drunk Driving Crashes in Nation, TXDOT Planning to Encourage More (Houston Chron)
• H-GAC Policy Council Could Allocate $675M More to Transit, Safe Streets, But Doesn’t (Houston Chron)
• Two Dead, Two Injured in Hays County Crash on SH21 (Austin American Statesman)
• Better Block-Inspired Tactical Urbanism Project in Austin’s Mueller Makes Traffic Safer (Spectrum)
• Red State Republicans Advocating for Restoring Gulf Coast AMTRAK Route Derailed by Hurricane Katrina (Politico)
• America’s Sprawl Starts Right at Border – Juarez, Population 1.5 Million, Is Smaller Than El Paso, Population 600,000 (CityLab)
• Study: Good Bike-Share System Reduces Congestion by 4% in Most Congested Areas (Resources for the Future)
• Austin City Council Is Sprawling Citizen Comment Via Video Link to Car-Dependent Areas (Community Impact)

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