How Unrepresentative Is Your Regional Planning Agency?

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Do the people who make transportation funding decisions in your region represent the people who actually live in your region? Who makes decisions at the Texas Department of Transportation? These guys (and one woman). Image: Jay Crossley After sitting through dozens of meetings presided over by a legion of white men, Texas transportation reformer Jay Crossley wanted to find [...]

Today’s Headlines

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  • Montgomery County Judge “Secret Road Bond” Doyal Has Business With Contractor (Houston Chron)
  • Austin Child Asks Mom to Pull Over for Snacks to Get Her to Stop Driving Drunk (KEYE)
  • Study: Socializing Texas Toll Roads Would Require $24B Subsidy (CBSDFW)
  • Downtown Dominates DART Rail Boardings; Cotton Line Potential Very Small (D Magazine)
  • Austin CM Zimmerman Has Nominated Only 4% Women to Committees (Austin Monitor)
  • El Paso Police Blame Human Error for Three of the Most Dangerous Intersections in State (KFOX)
  • City of Austin Installing Raised Crosswalks at Dangerous MLK & I-35 Intersection (ATX Mobility)

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Austin Plans a Bus Network Redesign of Its Own

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It’s hard to overstate the influence of Houston’s bus network redesign — an overhaul of the city’s bus routes that aimed to expand access to frequent service. Cities all over the country have taken note and many are reimagining their own bus networks. The transit agency in Austin, Capital Metro, is working on a similar project, and yesterday [...]

Today’s Headlines

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  • Capital Metro Connections 2025 Open House at Austin City Hall Today 10 AM – 2 PM
  • CTRMA Considering Gondola Study; Daily Ridership: 13,342, Capital Cost: $555M (Monitor)
  • Unidentified Woman Killed While Walking in Baytown May Have Been Hit Multiple Times (ABC13)
  • Two Children and 19-Year-Old Killed in San Antonio Single-Vehicle Crash (MySA)
  • Dallas Morning News Editorial Board Reiterates 2013 Call for Hiring City Manager From Outside
  • Thousands of DWI Cases Since 2006 Could Be Reviewed in Harris County (Houston Chron)
  • CTRMA Issues Angry Announcement: We Don’t Care About Judge’s Ruling. MORE ROADS.
  • Q: Will Efforts to Decongest West Loop Ever Work? A: Not Without Congestion Pricing (CW39)
  • Behold: Capital Metro’s Connections 2025 Video

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  • Amidst Standard Controversy, DART Proposals Weave a Grid of Rail Transit in Downtown (Morning News)
  • City of Dallas Needs Twice as Much Maintenance & Rebuilding as New Streets & Transportation (NBC5)
  • TXDOT’s my35.org NEPA Comment Form Does Not Seem to Have Option to Comment on Downtown Austin Segment
  • TXDOT Ending Rare Window of Time When I-45 Gulf Freeway Was Not Under Construction (HPM)
  • San Antonio’s Cherry Street Bicycle Cooperative Is Awesome (Rivard)
  • Pro – Congestion Bond and Anti – Government Groups Formed for Austin Bond Vote
  • Judge Denies TXDOT & CTRMA Request to Throw Out Lawsuit to Block Stupid Toll Road Proposal (Monitor)
  • Austin Appears to Have Returned to Normal Rate of Unnecessary Road Deaths (Statesman)

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El Paso’s Bid to Create a Regional Active Transportation Network

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A lot of regional transportation agencies talk a good game when it comes to improving biking and walking, but El Paso’s Metropolitan Planning Organization is actually doing something about it. The El Paso Metropolitan Planning Organization wants to complete more trails like this one, along the Rio Grande, throughout the region. Photo: El Paso Southwest The organization passed a [...]

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  • Ana Prado Tried to Beat Gap in Funeral Procession and Killed Officer Amir Abdul-Khaliq (KXAN)
  • Rosalie Rodriguez & Six Year Old West Adair Jr. Killed in Four-Car Crash in Burnet (Statesman)
  • Raul Aaron Tadeo Detained by Civilians After Killing Cassandra Jimenez, DWI Pending (Houston Chron)
  • Unclear What Caused Crash at Intersection Devoted to Cars & Speed. 3 Kids Injured (Morning News)
  • Trooper Chad Blackburn in Critical Condition After Woman Rolled Car Over His at 2 AM (Morning News)
  • Pedestrian Killed by Likely Drunk Driver in Dangerously Designed Intersection (Star-Telegram)
  • …Isaac Adams Gets 9 Years for Killing Sylvia Zazueta at Same Intersection a Year Ago (Star-Telegram)
  • People Racing Cars Monday Afternoon in Oak Cliff Killed Hilda Torres and Julio Lopez (NBCDFW)
  • TXDOT Financed TTI Freight Study That Avoids Examination of Assigning Full Costs to Trucking Industry
  • Public Comment Extended for Houston PWE Proposal to Make Hillcroft a 6-Lane Stroad (Ellen Cohen)
  • A&M Professor Estimates Lack of Texas Txting Ban Causes 90 Traffic Deaths a Year (Statesman)

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  • Harris and Dallas Counties Actually Had Less Vehicle Miles Traveled in 2015 Than 2006 (Jay Crossley)
  • Opening of Mopac Toll Lanes Delayed Again, Only Planned to Be Useful for 30 Years (Community Impact)
  • Parklet on Congress Transforms Four Parking Spots to Awesome (World Landscape Architect)
  • Transonic Wonders If You Would Pay $10 for a 15-Minute AUS – SA Round Trip
  • Whatever Arcade City Is, It Launched Worldwide Yesterday, Anarchist TNC App Available (Arcade City)
  • Kingwood Area Roads to Be Expanded to 6 Lane Stroads, Increase Driving, Danger (Community Impact)
  • CodeNEXT Mobility Prescription Community Walk During Burnet Road Better Block Event, 9/11
  • Massive Master Planned “Urban” Community Sure Has a Lot of Cul De Sacs, No Access (CultureMap)
  • Austin PD Issued 900 School Zone Citations in First Week, Posted 2 Vidoes of Kids Being Hit (KVUE)
  • How TOD Is Fueling Growth in Southern Dallas (ULI Urban Land)
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