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Talking Headways Podcast: Putting Dallas Back Together Again

By Jeff Wood | Aug 22, 2016 | No Comments

Patrick Kennedy comes on the podcast this week to talk about what’s going on in Dallas. We discuss the highway removal campaign known as A New Dallas and the recent Texas DOT CityMap Plan to re-imagine the freeways and roads in the city’s downtown. We also discuss downtown subways, urban politics, why existing walkable neighborhoods matter to new walkable neighborhoods, and what’s going [...]

Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Aug 22, 2016 | No Comments

Austin Budget Proposal Would Increase Fees to Fund Street and Sidewalk Maintenance (Monitor)
Hour-Long High-Speed Police Chase Ends in Suspect Crashing Into Vehicle Carrying Family With Kids (ABC13)
Petition Begs City of Houston Not to Widen 4-Lane Urban Street — Hillcroft — Into 6-Lane Stroad
TXDOT Strategic Planning Staff: Texas Will Not Be Able to Build Its Way Out of Congestion (Philip Haigh)
The Prairies of Houston Are Paved with MUDs — a Fiscal Conservative & Environmental Conservation Nightmare (Houston Chron)
Lack of City Planning Capabilities, Growth, Acre Lots, Farms, and Artists Meet in Historic Black Neighborhood (Houston Chron)
Connections 2025 Presentation, Vision Zero Pledge at Capital Metro Meeting Today
Houston Area Students Can Get Half Price Transit Pass (Metro)
Travis County Will Have Its Own Transportation Bond Process for 2017 (Monitor)

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Carless Renters Forced to Pay $440 Million a Year for Parking They Don’t Use

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 19, 2016 | No Comments

Many residents of American cities can’t escape the high cost of parking, even if they don’t own cars. Thanks to policies like mandatory parking requirements and the practice of “bundling” parking with housing, carless renters pay $440 million each year for parking they don’t use, according to a new study by C.J. Gabbe and Gregory Pierce in [...]

Dallas Plans to Deck Over a Highway — With a Parking Garage

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 18, 2016 | No Comments

Dallas’ vision for highway lid topped with a parking garage. Image: Woodall Rodgers Deck Park Foundation “The most Dallas thing ever.” That’s how Robert Wilonsky at The Dallas Morning News described a new plan to build a parking garage over a highway in the Big D. The project adds an ironic twist to what has been, until now, a civic [...]

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By Jay Blazek Crossley | Aug 18, 2016 | No Comments

A Year After New Bus Network, Metro Ridership Up 7% – 3 Million Additional Rides (Rivard)
Dallas City Council Indicates Support for D2 Subway and Bus Reimagining (Morning News)
…But DART Will Not Copy Houston’s Overnight Switch (Morning News)
Hays County to Vote on $131M Roads-Only Bond: $0 for Sidewalks, Transit, Bike (Community Impact)
Grand Parkway Leader: Building Southern Grand Parkway Not a Priority (Community Impact)
TXDOT Unified Transportation Program Comments Due 8/22: Ask for Complete Streets, Equity, Transit
October Sunday Streets HTX Will Be in Energy Corridor, First Time Outside the Loop (Energy Corridor)
High Speed Rail Touted as Element of Houston Olympics Bid (Texas Central)
Creating Walkable Places: Free H-GAC Transportation Workshop, September 30

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A Year After Bus Redesign, METRO Houston Ridership is Up

By Leah Binkovitz | Aug 16, 2016 | No Comments

Leah Binkovitz | August 16, 2016 A year into the overhaul of the region's bus network, METRO officials say they're pleased with the results -- and have more improvements in the works.

Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Aug 16, 2016 | No Comments

McClennan County Assistant DA Who Prosecutes DWIs Arrested for DWI (Houston Chron)
TXDOT Has Not Been Collecting Late Fees for Toll Drivers for a Year and A Half (Houston Public Media)
Texas Senator Robert Nichols: There is No Such Thing as a Free Road (Tyler Morning Telegram)
How Can San Antonio Not Just Let Three SA Tomorrow Plans Just Sit on a Shelf? (Express News)
DART to Spend 3 Times As Much on Sub-Urban Cotton Than Downtown D2 for 3K Less Riders (Observer)
AURA Breaks Down the Gallo Amendment’s Dilution of the Priorities of Sidewalk Master Plan
FHWA to Partially Assume Responsibility for Failed SH130 from Bankrupt Private Entity (Express News)
A Year After New Bus Network, Metro Ridership is Up 7% – 3 Million Additional Rides (Rivard)
Hermann Park Conservancy Master Plan Seeks Sustainable Transportation Strategy, Parking Management

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By Jay Blazek Crossley | Aug 15, 2016 | No Comments

Swerving Off Duty Police Officer With Alcohol on Breath Killed Brian Manring, 36-Yr-Old Father (KHOU)
City of San Antonio Giving Away Central City Lots to Affordable Housing Nonprofits (Rivard)
TTI Infrastructure Investment Analysis Has No Serious Current, Completed Projects on Transit, Walk, Bike
Collin County Leaders Plan Sprawl Nightmare (Morning News)
…Maybe Paying Some Transit Taxes – Instead of Corporate Subsidies – Could Help (Morning News)
Sylvester Turner: We Need Complete Affordable Neighborhoods in Every Part of Town (Houston Chron)
One Third of Houston Region Apartment Construction in Three Urban Neighborhoods (BizJournals)
Discovery Green Park Overwhelmed By People Walking Around, Asks Pokemon Go to Leave (Houstonia)

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Oslo Gradually Removing Parking From Central City as It Phases Out Cars

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 12, 2016 | No Comments

Photo: Wikipedia Another European city is setting its sights on ridding the urban core of cars. The City Council in Oslo, Norway, has approved a plan to remove cars from the central city by 2019. As part of that plan, parking spaces will be replaced by bike infrastructure. Liv Jorun Andenes, who works on bike projects with Oslo’s agency for [...]

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By Jay Blazek Crossley | Aug 12, 2016 | No Comments

TXDOT Makes Clear We Won’t Necessarily Ever Build High-Speed Rail (BizJournals)
Austin Slowly, Quietly Installing Safer Intersections With 2012 Bond Funds (City of Austin)
Someone Died in a Crash This Morning on Stroad Built for Speed in Round Rock (KXAN)
You Will Not Get to Vote for Light Rail Funding in Austin in 2016 (KVUE)
Misinformation Campaign Continues to Block Major Urbanist Development in Austin (Monitor)
Corridor Bond Has Dedicated Bus Lanes on Burnet, E. Riverside, and the Drag (Mayor Adler)
San Antonio — Like all Texas Cities — Needs More Transit Funding (Rivard)
DCTA Considering Expansion of Demand Response Transit to Plano (Community Impact)
Anti-HSR Activist Shouts “Remember Pearl Harbor” During Anti-Japan Speech (Houston Chron)
San Antonio Adopts New Sustainability Plan, Multimodal Plan, and Comprehensive Plan (Express News)

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Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Aug 11, 2016 | No Comments

3 Things to Know For the Public Hearing on Austin’s $720M Mobility Bond (Community Impact)
Urban Transportation Commission Talks Rail, Sidewalks, Bond Dismay (Austin Monitor)
A Smart Corridor Plan FAQ From Mayor Adler
Metro Expanding Free Transit for Veterans Program to Also Allow Free SOV Use of HOT Lanes (HPM)
Grimes County Tries to Make It Harder for Texas Central to Give Them HSR Station (Tribune)
AUS, HOU, SA, DAL Are Intercity Rail Deserts — TX Dominates National List (RAIL Magazine)
San Antonio Residents Are Allowed to Be Part of Participatory Budgeting for $850M Bond (Salud America)
…Result of Process Probably Will Mean $460M for Streets, Bridges, and Sidewalks (Express News)
Man Was Able to Drive Wrong Way on Grand Parkway, Kill Himself in Crash With a Family (Click2Houston)
Mesquite ISD Using Cameras to Keep School Buses Safe Despite Conspiracy Theorists (Morning News)

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5 Reasons No One Should Ever Take the Straddling Bus Seriously

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 10, 2016 | No Comments

A Chinese firm built and tested a prototype of this on a short track, but that might be the end of the road for the straddling bus. Image via Popular Science The taller the bus, the harder it falls. Since 2010, a Chinese firm’s “straddling bus” concept has captured the imagination of people around the globe who want to avoid the hassle [...]

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