• Unincorporated Resident Opposition to Annexation Depends Upon County Subsidy of Sprawl (Rivard)
• Gene Locke Continues Innovative “County Spending Transpo Funds in City” Concept (Houston Chron)
• TXLege Committee Hears From TTI on TNC Regulations in Other States (KUT, TTI)
• Houston Budget on Rebuilding Streets Should Double in Five Years (Your Houston News)
• Aesthetic Preference Limiting Market, Public Investment in Urban Downtown Austin (Monitor)
• Harris, TXDOT, H-GAC Using CMAW Funds for Targeted Intersection Upgrades (Community Impact)
• Houston Planning Commission Will Set Up Code to Allow Bike Plan Tomorrow (Houston Planning)
• Texas Cities Like San Antonio Continue Investing Local Funds in Hike and Bike Trails (Virtual BX)
• Houston Area Governments, Entities Can Apply for H-GAC Pedestrian/Bicycle Implementation Studies

• Extensive Lawmaker Grandstanding About Tolls and Car-Based Freedom Expected Today (KXAN)
• Council Members Push for Funding and Implementing Recently Passed SATomorrow Plan (Rivard)
• Add Another $10 Million to the Cost of the Failed Katy Freeway Expansion (Your Houston News)
• Matamoros and Brownsville Plan International Hike/Bike Trail Connecting Urban Arts Districts (Rivard)
• How Big of a Deal Is Dallas Real Estate Industry Support of D2 Subway? (Observer)
• Plano 3.0 Means Focus on Downtown, Becoming a Real City, Transit, and TOD (Morning News)
• Motorcyclist Killed in Crash on High Speed Feeder Road on Mopac (KVUE)
• Seems Likely TXLege Hearings on “Affordability” Will Not Include Location Efficiency (KUT)
• Your Headline Writer Crowdfunding Urgent Report on Inequity in Central Texas Transportation (Tilt)

• Truck Freight Interests Pleased With Subsidy to Increase Truck Traffic (Transport Topics)
• TXDOT and CTRMA Denied Cover for Potential Loss of Endangered Species of SH45 SW (Monitor)
• Dallas Streetcar Extension to Bishop Arts District Starts Carrying Passengers Today (KERA)
• Update: The City of Dallas Still Only Has Two Bike-Share Stations (Rik Adamski)
• TXDOT Lowering Speed Limit on I-10 in Beaumont Over Knee-Jerk Reaction From City (Houston Chron)
• Houston Metro Investing in 125 New Bus Shelters in Upcoming Fiscal Year (Write On Metro)
• Austin Chamber of Commerce Event: Rethinking Urban Mobility, September 21
• Austin’s System of Traffic Impact Analysis Is a Mess (Statesman)
• Houston Now Using High Comfort Detours When Bike Lane Blocked by Construction (Houston Bikeways)

• Vision Zero Action in Austin — Safety Improvements in Store for 5 Intersections (Community Impact)
• Austin ISD Has a “Where’s the Bus?” App for Parents to Check Out Where the School Bus Is
• DLINK Has Crazy Convoluted Bus Routes, But Now Connect to Farmers’ Market (Phillip Goss)
• People in Frisco Are Fighting With Guns Over Parking Lot Driving Style (Morning News)
• In Texas School Finance System, Urban School Districts Subsidize Others (Statesman)
• Austin American Statesman Blesses Capital Metro Move to Prioritize Ridership Over Coverage
• TTI Reports on the Policy Implications of TNC — Otherwise Known as Ride Hailing

• Houston’s First Mixed-Use, Mixed-Income Transit-Oriented Development Leads the Way (Offcite)
• H-GAC Head Guy Not Sure If UTP Means $3 Billion, $4 Billion, or $5 Billion for Houston Roads (Houston Public Media)
• Four Years Into Imagine Austin, City Continues Haphazard, Parochial Planning by Pitchfork (Monitor)
• “Liberty Caucus” Believes 476 Texans Should Die Every Year for Freedom to Drive While Txting (Texomas)
• House Transportation Chair Joe Pickett Lovingly Speaks of Freeway: “We Have a Beautiful Lane” (KVIA)
• State Auditor Finds TXDOT’s Oversight Not Adequate for $8B of Design-Build Roads (Houston Chron)
• TXDOT Believes We Should Put the Burden for Street Safety on Parents and Children (TXDOT)
• What Could Go Wrong Investing Billions in Roads That Require Wasteful Lifestyles to See Return? (ENR)
• Denton and Fort Worth Investing Half a Million a Year in 90-Minute Intercity Express Bus (DentonRC)

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• All Eight Austin Ride Hailing Services Meet Fingerprinting Requirements By Deadline (Statesman)
• Sprawl Counties Propose Making CAMPO Technical Advisory Committee Even More Inequitable (Monitor)
• TXDOT Believes One Webinar and One Meeting Is “Extensive Public Input” for $70 Billion UTP (TXDOT)
• Segregationist Austin Zoning & Planning Commission Keeps Opposing Imagine Austin, Urbanism (Monitor)
• HISD Opens Second New Campus in Transit-Accessible, Walkable Downtown Location (BizJournals)
• Historically Black Main Street Named After Confederate Soldier Changed to Emancipation Ave (Swamplot)
• Apple Maps Now Has Transit in Austin, SA, DFW, Not Houston (Morning News)
• Someone Took Out an Austin BCycle Station With a Car (Austin Bcycle)

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• More Than 200 People Show Up at DART Meeting in Support of D2 Subway (Morning News)
• …DART Might Make Dallas Choose Between Streetcar Expansion and Subway (Morning News)
• Jarrett Walker: Falling Oil Prices, Sputtering Economy Kept Houston Bus Ridership Down
• Officer James Combs, Who Killed Brian Manring Driving Drunk, Finally Arrested Four Days Later (PINAC)
• Somebody Started a Petition Asking TXDOT to Sink and Cap I-35 Through Urban Austin (?)
• Deadline to Apply to Join City of Austin Bicycle Advisory Council Is August 28
• Capital Metro Claims PRT Is Future of Transit, Wants to Present on Robocars at SXSW Eco
• San Antonio Budget Proposal Has $1 Million Each for Safe Routes to Schools and Vision Zero (mySA)
• San Antonio Mayor Ivy Taylor Indicates Vision Zero Is Just About Pedestrians on Morning TV (Fox29)

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• Traffic Deaths Up 11% in Texas Compared to This Time Last Year (National Safety Council)
• Behold the Capital Metro Connections 2025 Report (Monitor, KUT, Impact)
• How Dallas’s Street Grid Lends Itself to a Frequent Bus Network (D Magazine)
• In a Car Dependent Freeway & Arterial System, a Trump Visit Means Congestion (KUT)
• Dallas Council and DART Considering Streetcar Expansion Routes (Morning News)
• …Which Could End Up Competing With D2 Downtown Light Rail for Funds (Morning News)
• Driver Hits Student Trying to Walk on Stroad With Barely Any Sidewalks (Houston Chron)
• NBCDFW Pushing Road Spending Agenda to Potentially Reduce Lethality of 0.4% of Texas Crashes

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