The Highway Era Is Over. When Will Our Institutions Catch Up?

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The highway era is over. The construction of the Interstate Highway System is essentially complete. How much has changed at American transportation agencies since the 1960s? Image via YouTube Americans will continue to log lots of miles on highways, but for the most part, the job of building them is over. We’ve already connected the places worth connecting by highways. The problem is that transportation agencies — [...]

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  • TODAY: Last Day to Register to Vote in the November Elections
  • Dallas-Based Better Block Launches WikiBlock Toolkit for Creating a Better Block
  • Bike-Oriented Development Is a Real Thing in Houston Along Bayou Greenways (Realty News Report)
  • TXDOT Meeting Tonight on Bike / Ped Along SH183 Will Inform All Local Freeway Projects (Tom Wald)
  • A Driver Crashed Into an El Paso Family’s Home for the Second Time in Two Weeks (KVIA)
  • City of Austin Strategic Mobility Program Is Live, Public Process to Begin in January (Monitor)
  • Three People Killed in Separate Crashes in Dallas Monday Night (Morning News Calls Them Accidents)
  • Dallas Streetcar Service Operating Hours Extended to Start at 5:30 a.m. (Morning News)
  • Neighborhood Segregationist Wants to Know Exactly What Austin Bond Will Be Spent On (Monitor)

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  • Only 2.8% of Austin Voters Oppose the Bond Because It Has Too Much for Bikes and Trails (BizJournals)
  • …But Another Poll Shows 60% of Austin Voters Want to Prioritize Roads (Monitor)
  • Calling Guadalupe an “Activity Corridor” Will Loosen Some Anti-Urban Regulations for Small Area (Monitor)
  • Suburban Lawmakers Like Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Financed by Attorneys for Sprawl MUDs (Houston Chron)
  • Linda Watson: CapMetro Decisions Based on Public Opinion, Not Just Stats (Passenger Transport)
  • Should Toll Road Authorities Follow Transparency Practices Demanded of State Agencies? (Morning News)
  • More on Experimental Texas A&M Glow in the Dark Bike Lane / Protected Intersection (Houston Chronicle)
  • City of Houston Creates Centralized Dispatch App for Hailing Taxi Cabs (Houston Chron)

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TTI Built a “Dutch Junction” With Glow-in-the-Dark Bike Lanes

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The Texas Transportation Institute built this Dutch Junction on the Texas A&M campus in College Station. Photo: TTI It’s America’s first unsignalized “Dutch Junction” — a type of intersection with protected space for cycling. It even has solar luminescent bike lanes. And here’s the kicker — it’s in the heart of Texas. The Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M led the design and [...]

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  • Alamo Area MPO Calls for Proposals for $15M in Active Transportation TAP Funding (AAMPO)
  • 21st Century Transportation Planning Requires Focus on Access, Not Mobility (NextCity)
  • One Crash in a Non-Resilient Transportation System Blocks Tens of Thousands (Houston Chron)
  • Mark Tirpak: San Antonio Needs Real Transit Service Improvements, Not Wifi (NowCastSA)
  • Confronting the Perils of Walking Home From School in Katy (Houston Chron)
  • San Antonio Community Bond Meetings on Streets, Bridges, & Sidewalks Start October 11
  • Shuttle Van Start Up Expands From San Francisco to Austin (Movability Austin)
  • McKinney Trying to Replace Lost Transit — Low Density Enough for State Funds (Morning News)

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Why Do We Put the Onus for Traffic Safety on Kids?

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.@NTSB Vice Chairman: Practice safe walking behavior. Stay alert, walk on sidewalks, cross at crosswalks. #NationalWalkToSchoolDaypic.twitter.com/TWRChfTdcZ — NTSB (@NTSB) October 5, 2016 It’s Walk-to-School Day, a day when children all over the country get to enjoy the simple experience of traveling somewhere using their own power. It makes me happy because I love seeing the pictures of kids walking with [...]

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  • City of Austin’s Amir Emamian Emphasizes Fear of Walking for Walk to School Day (KXAN)
  • Only Objection to Open Streets Even Outside Beltway 8 Was From a Gas Station (Houston Chron)
  • Interstate Intersection in Longview Has Been Without Light for a Month (Longview News-Journal)
  • Vision Zero ATX Published Voter Guide With Responses From 20 Austin Area Candidates
  • Fort Worth Police: Death of Homeless Man Walking on Freeway Was “Accident” (WFAA)
  • Austin Council Traffic Impact Debates Threaten to Block Traffic Reducing Urbanism (Monitor)
  • Attn TXDOT: The US Department of Transportation Now Has a Goal of Zero Traffic Deaths
  • Houston Metro Trying New Strategy of Shifting MetroLift Customers to Fixed Transit (HPM)

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The Feds’ Tentative Steps to Legalize Mixed-Use Housing Don’t Go Far Enough

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Small apartment buildings with ground-floor retail used to be a fixture of small towns and big cities. But federal lending rules have made this type of housing very difficult to build or renovate. Photo: Wikipedia For a long time, apartment buildings with ground-floor retail were the building blocks of America’s cities and towns. Combining housing and commercial uses is also essential [...]

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  • BikeHouston Leading Letter Writing Push to Pass Houston Bike Plan
  • Public Comment Period on Downtown Austin Part of I-35 Extended to October 19
  • Dallas Allows Closure of Pedestrian Transportation System for Construction (Bradford Pearson)
  • New DART Scenarios Include a Shorter Version of Cotton Belt Suburban Rail (Morning News)
  • Is San Antonio Rehabilitating More Old Urbanism Than Other Texas Cities? (Express News)
  • Mansfield Woman Files Complaint With DOJ Because Uber Won’t Pick Up Service Dog (Morning News)
  • TXDOT Has a News Rail Division Director: Peter Espy (Texas Rail Advocates)

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