• Anthony Foxx: CAMPO and AAMPO Must Collaborate on Regional Transportation Plan or Merge (Eno)
• Austin’s Entire Priority Bike Plan Could Have Been Funded for Cost of Removing 360 Stop Lights (TWC)
• Whether or Not Texas Central High Speed Rail “Is” a Railroad Will Go to Full Trial (Community Impact)
• Santa Needs Streets That Are Safe and Comfortable for All Modes of Travel (AARP Texas, ATX Mobility)
• Dallas County Community College Giving Free Transit Passes to Students at All Campuses (DART)
• No One Died in Today’s Truck Crash on Houston Freeways, But Someone Died in Yesterday’s (ABC13)
• It Wasn’t the Driver Who Ran a Red Light, According to the Morning News, It Was His Sedan
• TXDOT May Be Addressing DBE Recommendations From Sunset Process Ahead of Lege (TXDOT)
• CTRMA Board Disagrees With Staff on Something and Asks, “Who Is Making These Decisions?” (Monitor)
• You Guys — Along with Louisiana — Are the Worst (CBSDFW)

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Happy holidays, Streetsblog Texas readers! We’ll be taking a break from headlines for the next few days and will be back posting fresh news in 2017.

• Police Still Investigating Whether They Can Blame Victim Killed By Red Light Running Driver (KXAN)
• Charging $2/Day for Parking, Metro Loses Money on Grand Parkway Park and Ride
  (Houston Chron)
• Travis Co Commissioner Brigid Shea Opposes CTRMA Park and Ride Plan, Calls for Shared Use of Existing Parking (Monitor)
• Memorial Village Police Chief J.D. Sanders: Gov Abbott Wrong About Traffic Stops (Salon)
• Harris Co Commissioner Jack Mormon Thinks Safe Medians Cause Residents to “Suffer Needlessly” (Star Courier)
• 20-Year-Old Anthony Isaiah Gomez Drove Drunk and Killed an 8-Year-Old Girl (Texomas)
• Senator Konni Burton Files Bill — SB 385 — to Block All Use of Federal Funds for Rail Transit Without a Vote

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• FTA Commits Half a Billion Dollars to Fort Worth Dallas Rail Transit (Star-Telegram)
• Williamson County Commissioner Cynthia Long Opposes Using CTRMA Funds on Transit (Monitor)
• TXDOT Updated its Environmental Handbook for Public Involvement
• NCTCOG Will Hold Meetings in January for Its Regional Transit Plan, Access North Texas
• Beloved UNT Campus Albino Squirrel Was Killed By a Driver on Highland Street (UNT Senate)

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• Real Estate Interests Advocating for Removing Parking Requirements in Montrose (Realty News)
• Map of Bills Filed by Texas House and Senate Members by Party and Geography (January Advisors)
• Support #PasstheBikePlan Effort by Posting Selfie With Written Support and District (BikeHouston)
• TXDOT Now Expects Construction for 290 SOV Lane Expansions to Continue Into 2018 (Houston Chron)
• 17-Year-Old Driving a Truck Kills a 5-YearOld Girl Riding Her Bike in This Cul De Sac (ABC13)
• Developers Meet Neighborhood Needs to Add Mid-Rise Mixed-Use Urbanism to East Dallas (Morning News)
• Bike-Ped Projects Create 46% More Jobs than Roads-Only Ones, But #TXLege Binds TXDOT Funds (Salud)
• Sprawling Suburban Design Makes It Difficult for Fire Trucks to Reach Neighborhoods – With Santa (KXAN)

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• Austin Council Adopts Comprehensive Speed Policy Reform & Supports State Bill (Statesman, KEYE)
• Austin City Council Finally Allows The Grove, Massive Mixed-Use, New Urbanist Infill (Statesman)
• Houston Will Be Finished Building New Light Rail Lines (For Now?) on January 11 (Christof Spieler)
• Alamo Regional Mobility Authority Thinks Doubling Lanes on Loop 1604 Is a Good Idea (Express News)
• 22 Year Old Kills Joan Chaney — Grandmother of Eight — While “Street Racing” in Round Rock (KXAN)
• CAMPO Approves $110M in Freeway Alterations on 71 and 290 in Bastrop County (Statesman)

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• How an Elevated Freeway Devastated the City of Pasadena (Houston Chron)
• US DOT Provides Guidelines for Opposing the Impending Road-Spending Glut (CityLab)
• Reminder as Texas Doubles in Population: Sprawl Is Subsidized (Smart Growth America)
• …Older Suburban Cities in DFW Object to Paying Into the Ponzi Scheme (Morning News)
• Capital Metro Reimagining Muddied by MetroRapid and BRT Concerns (Monitor)
• US DOT Rewards Grant to UT-Austin to Study Regional Transportation Planning (UT News)
• Houston Chronicle Sympathetic to Those Blocking Pedestrian & ADA Transportation System to Store Cars

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