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Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Nov 1, 2016 | No Comments

Houston’s Hermann Park to Bury Parking to Prioritize Walking and Biking (Houston Chron)
Buffalo Bayou Park Getting Pushback From Parking Socialists (KHOU)
Raymond Cui Hit a Critical Mass Bicyclist With His Car While Drunk, Then Fled (Houston Chron)
Will Bus Service Be a Casualty of Low Ridership Cotton Belt Rail? (Morning News)
Liberal and Conservative Coalition Opposes Wasteful Hays County Road Bonds (Watchdog)
Kingwood Greenbelt – Built in 1970s – Is Example of What Houston Bike Plan Could Do (OffCite)
0.6-Mile Greenway Will Connect Transit Stations, UH & Research Park (Daily Cougar)
Oklahoma DOT Adamantly Defends AMTRAK Service (Norman Transcript)

Texas Cheerleaders Lead Campaign for Distracted Driving Ban to Honor One of Their Own

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Oct 31, 2016 | No Comments

The students of Champion Cheer All Stars cheerleading gym have collected over 4,000 signatures in one week on a petition asking the Texas legislature to ban people from driving while using an electronic device. They lost one of their own to a tragic crash believed to be caused by a distracted driver, as explained on their […]

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By Jay Blazek Crossley | Oct 31, 2016 | No Comments

Pickup Truck Driver Kills Two Year Old Girl in Parking Lot in Austin (KVUE)
Driver Racing at 90 MPH Kills Father and Daughter Walking in Round Rock (Statesman)
…Relatives Have Set Up a GoFundMe to Pay for the Funerals of Tyrone and Cheyenne Price (TWC)
…Police Seeking Driver of the Other Car, Who Fled the Scene (KVUE)
Drunk Driver Kills Woman, Houston Police Say It Was Her Fault (Houston Chron)
Steve Garcia, Melinda Rodriguez, Aliza Maldonado Killed Friday in San Antonio Crash (KSAT)
Man Driving Fast Killed Himself in Rollover in Humble Early Sunday Morning (KHOU)
Texas Cheerleaders Leading Charge for Texas Legislature to Ban Distracted Driving (Change.org)

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When Will Mayor Turner Let the Houston Bike Plan Move Forward?

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Oct 28, 2016 | No Comments

Earlier this week, BikeHouston held a traveling pep rally to call on Mayor Sylvester Turner to move forward with the Houston Bike Plan. After the rally, Turner said he would proceed with the bike plan but did not provide a timetable. The bike plan maps out an ambitious citywide network of safe, comfortable bikeways, including integration with the off-street bike trails in the Bayou […]

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By Jay Blazek Crossley | Oct 28, 2016 | No Comments

CTRMA Amplifies Perception of Brief Period of Flowing Cars on Mopac by Speeding Up Video
Bloomberg Selects Austin as One of Five Cities to Explore Policies for Robot Cars (AustinInno)
“Experts” Prognosticate on Houston’s Growth, Private Market Says Pedestrian Urbanism (Houston Chron)
Austin City Council to Consider Lamar Beach Plan, With New Boardwalk on Lady Bird Lake (VirtualBX)
Video Posted of StrongTowns’ Chuck Marohn Lecture in Austin City Hall on CodeNEXT (Imagine Austin)
Outdated Council of Austin Elders Defends Its Role in Perverting Real Estate Market (Monitor)
“Express Lanes” to Shave Minutes Off Trip to Austin Airport Impose Construction Delays (TXDOT)
You Can Now Ride With Austin’s Taxi Driver Coop — Driver Exclaims: “It’s Our Company!” (Austin Chron)

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Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Oct 27, 2016 | No Comments

Point Austin Explains All the Fallacies of the Pro-Car Anti-Bond Folks (Austin Chron)
CTRMA Clinging to Brief Period of Time When Wider Roads Show Perceived Benefit (KEYE)
Doesn’t Anyone at DART Realize How Terrible Riding DART Is? (D Magazine)
Battle Lines Being Drawn Over Austin’s CodeNEXT as Segregationists Defend Zoning (Austin Chron)
Police Called to San Antonio Meeting Where Unruly Mob Opposed Affordable Apartments (Express News)
Developer to Fund Traffic Study for Entire Downtown Austin Neighborhood (KUT)

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To Open Up Cities, Make Single-Family Zones More Flexible

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 26, 2016 | No Comments

As the number of jobs in Seattle explodes, the city is grappling with how to make room for all the population growth that’s expected to follow. The city’s “Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda” maps out a strategy to do so, focusing mainly on infill development in denser areas near transit. Most of the city, however, is zoned for single-family [...]

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By Jay Blazek Crossley | Oct 26, 2016 | No Comments

After Activists Rally at City Hall, Mayor Turner Says We Will Get the Bike Plan Done (Houston Chron, ABC13)
Austin Legislative Agenda Calls for Safe Routes to Schools Funding and Local Options Transportation Funding
Houston Legislative Agenda Calls for Balance in Transportation Funding
Austin ISD Board Members Support Proposed Safe Routes to Schools Funding (KUT)
DART Board Votes to Do D2 Subway — Many Upset About Also Trying to Do Cotton Line (Tribune)
Sprawl Boosting Economist Thinks Millennials Want Single-Family Houses (Express News)

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How American Cities Can Protect Cyclists From Deadly Trucks

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 25, 2016 | No Comments

Side guards save lives. Photo via Vision Zero Network Heavy trucks kill. They account for as much as 32 percent of cyclist deaths in New York City and 58 percent in London, far out of proportion to their share of traffic. Across the U.S., 1,746 bicyclists and pedestrians have been killed in collisions with commercial trucks over the last [...]

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By Jay Blazek Crossley | Oct 25, 2016 | No Comments

Partnership for a Healthy Texas Calls for #TXLege to Form Task Force to Create a Statewide Vision Zero Action Plan
Capital Metro Kills the Hated Premium Fare on MetroRapid, Expects Increased Ridership (Monitor)
Study Highlghts $5.3B of TOD Near DART Light Rail Between 1996 & 2013, With Another $5B Planned (DART, Study)
Future Decisions Will Determine Whether Austin Bond for Corridors Is Good for Vision Zero (KUT)
At Least $182M of San Antonio’s Bond Package Is Focused on Downtown Projects That Benefit All (Express News)
Kotkin and Florida Seem to Agree That They Don’t Understand What Has Happened in Houston (Houston Chron)
More Than 54% Additional People Voted Yesterday in 10 Largest Texas Counties Than in 2012 (Texas Tribune)

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What the Price of Parking Shows Us About Cities

By Joe Cortright | Oct 24, 2016 | No Comments

To see where your city falls, check out the interactive chart at this link. Cross-posted from City Observatory. Earlier, we rolled out our parking price index, showing the variation in parking prices among large US cities. Gleaning data from ParkMe, a web-based directory of parking lots and rates, we showed how much it cost to park on [...]

Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Oct 24, 2016 | No Comments

Today’s the Last Day to Tell FTA/FHWA If Austin, San Antonio Should Plan Transportation Together
Kevin Sloan: After 22 Years of Driving, I Dumped My – Dallas – Commute (Morning News)
Stoplights Added Where 3 Siblings Were Killed in West Dallas Crash (Morning News)
Capital Metro Board Could Vote to Kill the $1.75 “Premium Fare” for MetroRapid Today (Monitor)
Houston’s 2nd Protected Bike Lane Is a TXDOT Construction Detour of a Bayou Greenway (Critical Mass)
Patrick Kennedy – AKA WalkableDFW – Nominated by Dallas CM Scott Griggs for DART Board
Affordable, Sustainable, Mixed-Use, Mixed-Income Is the Goal of San Antonio East Side Plans (Rivard)

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