What Killed Eduardo Dill: ‘Failure to Yield Right of Way’ or Awful Streets?

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Tragedy struck El Paso again on September 22, when 27-year-old Susanna Lozano, driving her F-150 pickup truck, struck and killed 53-year-old Eduardo Dill as he attempted to cross a neighborhood street in his electric wheelchair. Police said that the “contributing factor” to the crash was Dill’s “failure to yield the right of way,” according to El […]

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  • CAMPO Posted Their Missing Public Participation Plan Online Following UT Student FOIA
  • …However, Entire CAMPO Website Is Down This Morning (Screenshot)
  • Truck Driver Kills Jacqueline Caravella as She Crossed San Antonio Street (MySA)
  • Austin Board of Adjustments Will Let ICC Build a Housing Coop Without So Much Parking (ICC)
  • Houston Metro Planning Rail Bond Referendum in 2017 for 90A & Airports (HPM)
  • Text of Mayor Adler’s Bond Speech That Really Upset Austin’s Urbanist Twitterati (Purgatorian)
  • Car Dependency Chair Joe Pickett Will Try to Divert TERP Funds to Cars Again This Session (TAG)
  • TAG-Houston Regional Spending Plan Now Up to $63B With $30B for LRT, BRT (TAG)
  • Road Building Firms Invite You to 2016 Regional Fort Bend Infrastructure Conference

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White House: Make Cities Affordable By Building for Walkability, Not Parking

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The Obama administration is taking on the crisis of rising rents in American cities, releasing a series of recommendations today to spur the construction of more affordable housing. Among the many ideas the White House endorses: allowing more multi-family housing near transit and getting rid of parking minimums. Rising rents and stagnant incomes are putting pressure on [...]

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  • Rep. Ron Simmons Believes High Speed Rail Will Survive 2017 Legislative Session (WFAA)
  • Marketing Presents MOPAC Express Lanes as Occasional Option, Not Daily Commute (CTRMA)
  • Harris County Voted to Turn the Astrodome Into a Parking Garage Today (Houston Chron)
  • Alamo Area MPO Bike Night Fall 2016 Is October 12 at Lone Star Brewery (Mayor Taylor)
  • Public Meetings on Houston’s Newest Private Toll Road Tonight and Thursday (Drive288)
  • Austin Planning Commission Votes to Remove Density Limits for Rainey Street District (Monitor)
  • City of Dallas Pushing Hard to Prioritize Downtown Subway Over Suburban Rail (Morning News)

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  • San Antonio’s Síclovía Open Streets Event Is Making a Positive Health Impact (Rivard)
  • Midtown Dallas Land Owners, Developers Might Match $15M City Bond for 30-Acre Park (BizJournals)
  • El Paso PD: Wheelchair User Eduardo Dill “Failed to Yield” to F-150 Driver Half-Mile From Crosswalk (KFoxTV)
  • 5 Years of Austin’s Hotel Tax Could Pay for Gaudalupe Starter Light Rail Line (Community Impact)
  • Lawyers for High Speed Rail Avoid Court Ruling on Grammar and this Plantation (Houston Chron)
  • Infill Development Actually Happening in East Dallas Based on Transportation (Morning News)
  • Crash & Crime Reporting Service DFW Scanner Does Not Agree With #CrashNotAccident
  • Amtrak Now Allows Bikes on Texas Passenger Rail Routes (Peter Le Cody)

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Will US DOT’s Self-Driving Car Rules Make Streets Safe for Walking and Biking?

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This week, U.S. DOT released guidelines for self-driving cars, a significant step as regulators prepare for companies to bring this new technology to market. Autonomous vehicles raise all sorts of questions about urban transportation systems. It’s up to advocates to ensure that the technology helps accomplish broader goals like safer streets and more efficient use of urban space, [...]

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  • Advocates for the Blind Sue for Equal Access to Ride-Hail Services (Statesman)
  • Driver Kills Pedestrian Crossing Mile Stretch of Vista Del Sol Drive That Has No Crosswalk (KVIA)
  • Significant Disagreements Remain on How to Make SATomorrow Plan a Real Thing (Express News)
  • Proposed Dallas Streets Budget Would Just Barely Keep Up With Maintenance (Observer)
  • TXDOT Says Private Toll Road Builder Will Construct Controversial Med Center Flyover (Drive288)
  • Suburban Rail Mayors Claim DFW Will Grow to 14M — 3.3M More Than NCTCOG Forecasts (Morning News)
  • CTRMA Board Members Thinking of “Expanding Our Horizons Beyond Just Roads” to Gondolas (KUT)
  • Bus Stop Standards Will Be Added to Houston Infrastructure Design Manual (HPM)
  • Houston Metro Planning to Open an Office of Innovation (HPM)
  • Austin Nonprofit Housing Coop Needs Letters of SupportSupport at Hearing to Avoid Parking Minimums

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  • Houston Metro Set to Okay $1B Budget, With Lower Sales Tax Projections (Houston Chron, HPM)
  • Proposed Capital Metro Budget: More for Inefficient Suburban Services (Monitor)
  • …Julio Gonzales Asks Capital Metro to Fund Success Instead (Keep Austin Wonky)
  • Austin Chamber Report: Better Land Use, More Options, TDM, Not Roads (Impact, BizJournals)
  • Video: Dr. Stephen Klineberg on Future of Houston, Which Is America’s Future (Click2Houston)
  • Former DART Board Member Hired for TOD Job Created for Him (Morning News)
  • Main Entrance to San Antonio City Hall Is Not Accessible to All San Antonio Citizens (Rivard)
  • Unclear If Sandra Bland Settlement Will Mean System-Wide Retraining on Traffic Stops (Tribune)
  • CAMPO Board Member and Lakeway Mayor Joe Bain: There Is “NO Plan for Western Travis County to Improve Congestion in the 40 Year Plan” (Statesman)

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