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Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Aug 10, 2016 | No Comments

If You Want to Ride Light Rail on Guadalupe/North Lamar, Here’s Your Petition
Uber Rolls Out Pre-Scheduled Rides for Business Travelers in Dallas (Morning News)
AirCheckTexas Will Give You $3,500 to Buy a Car, Transit Passes Not Mentioned (NCTCOG)
San Antonio Leaders Urge Austin Leaders to Figure Out How to Save Lone Star Rail (KSAT)
Mixed-Use Development Planned in Downtown San Antonio Around Planned Creek Rehab (ExpressNews)
CM Houston Says Her Vote to Gut Sidewalk Funding Was a Mistake Due to Fatigue (Monitor)
Oklahoma to Monterrey (& AUS, SA, DFW) HSR Meeting Tonight in Austin (TXDOT) Comment Online
Can DART Build Sub-Urban Rail and Downtown Rail at the Same Time? (Morning News)
Dallas Chief Resiliency Officer Calls for Reimagining DART Transit as Grid Network (ArchPaper)

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Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Aug 9, 2016 | No Comments

Mayor Turner Signals Big Changes Could Be Coming for Affordable Housing Policy (Houston Chron)
CAMPO Vote Sets Up Death of Lone Star Rail, With One Last Try at UP Railroad Deal (BizJournals)
…AAMPO Declines to Fund Lone Star Rail (Express News)
City of Houston 311 Emergency Heat Plan Will Drive You to a Library to Cool Off in A/C (Swamplot)
Driver Kills Pedestrian Crossing Dark 40 MPH Stroad in San Antonio (MySanAntonio)
Texas Central to Pay for City Study of High Speed Rail-Oriented Development (Morning News)
Austin Mayor Adler Talks 2016 Transportation Bonds (Austin Monitor)
New Dallas Streetcar Schedule Starting Monday, August 29 (DART)
El Paso City Council Approves Comprehensive Bike Plan (City of El Paso)

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U.S. Transportation Now Belches Out More Carbon Than U.S. Electricity

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 8, 2016 | No Comments

Photo: Wikipedia For the first time in almost four decades, the nation’s tailpipes now spew out more carbon emissions than the nation’s smokestacks. It’s an indication of how slowly the American transportation sector is rising to the challenge of preventing catastrophic climate change. Over the past 12 months, carbon emissions from cars and trucks have exceeded carbon emissions from electric power — the first time that’s happened [...]

Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Aug 8, 2016 | No Comments

Adler Sees “Consensus” Behind Congestion Bond, Doubts Light Rail Bond Will Make It (Monitor)
Owner of Metal Recycling Facility Investing in Restoring Walkable Urbanism to Downtown El Paso (Times)
CTRMA Reminds Us That Toll Roads Always End Up Needing Direct Connectors – More $
Car Commuting Drives People Crazy (KVUE)
TXDOT Breaks Ground on that Corpus Christi Bridge That Meant Buying Out a Black Neighborhood
CAMPO Board Will Consider Dropping Out of Lone Star Rail Tonight (Statesman)
Dallas Man Who Killed Someone Driving Drunk 26 Years Ago Killed By Drunk Driver (Morning News)
Man Trying to Ride Bike Along Feeder Crashes and Falls Over Guardrail to Waters Below (MySA)

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Survey: Americans Want DOTs to Factor Climate Change in Their Decisions

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 5, 2016 | No Comments

Graphic: NRDC Should we continue to let state transportation departments spend tens of billions of dollars in federal funds each year without regard to how highway expansions contribute to climate change? Right now U.S. DOT is looking to inject some accountability into a process that has created a very carbon-intensive transportation system, and a new poll suggests most [...]

Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Aug 5, 2016 | No Comments

San Antonio Mayor Ivy Taylor Says Some Good, Tough Things About Affordable Housing (Rivard)
Many Harris County Voting Locations Are Inaccessible to People With Disabilities, Violates ADA (Tribune)
Amarillo Police Officer Justin Scherlen Dies Almost a Year After Head-On Collision on Duty (Globe-News)
OK-DFW-AUS-SA-Border-Monterrey HSR Meetings Next Week (FRA)
TXDOT Hopes You are Impressed by the Size of Its Interstates (TXDOT)
Patrick Kennedy: Why the 2nd Downtown DART Line Should Be a Subway (D Magazine)
Austin Council Approves Funding for Citywide Set of Bike Signals (Community Impact)

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Talking Headways Podcast: The Future of Shared Mobility

By Jeff Wood | Aug 4, 2016 | No Comments

This week we’ve got a fascinating discussion from the Live.Ride.Share conference in Denver earlier this year. Hear what representatives from NRDC, Uber, Lyft, and U.S. DOT think about the future of shared-use mobility systems, carpooling services, autonomous vehicles, and their impact on cities and greenhouse gases. Speakers include: Mark Dowd, deputy assistant secretary for research and technology at U.S. [...]

Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Aug 4, 2016 | No Comments

Austin Council Considers Public Comment by Video Conferencing for Inaccessible Car Dependent District (KUT)
Petition Asks Austin Council to Allow The Grove Walkable Urban Development
H-GAC Launches “Road Warrior” Campaign to Encourage Non-SOV Travel (Janice Evans)
Tickets Available for New Urbanism Film Festival in Austin, August 23
Commissioner Clark May Fund New Montgomery County Transportation Manager Position (Courier)
Try Waco Transit System for Free this Saturday (Waco Transit)

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How to Build a Thriving, Equitable Bike-Share System

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Aug 3, 2016 | No Comments

Bike-share has the capability to expand access to jobs and transit for communities in need of better transportation options — but only if the system is set up and operated in an equitable way. Our latest collaboration with the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) examines how to build a thriving, equitable bike-share system. At the end of [...]

Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Aug 3, 2016 | No Comments

Capital Metro Defends MetroRail After Flawed Forbes Attack on Rail Transit (MetroBlog)
Austin City Manager Sends First Memo on Vision Zero Progress (City of Austin)
City of Austin Hiring Two Complete Streets/Vision Zero Interns (Apply)
Patrick Kennedy‘s Safe Streets Activism Includes Using Personal Speed Gun to Monitor Dallas Streets
SATomorrow Accepting Applications for Sustainability Awards Until August 26 (Rivard)
Montgomery County Judge Doyal Remains Indicted for Secret Road Bond Negotiations (Houston Chron)
Not Sure Why BikeAustin Markets a Bike Donation Event as a Ciclovia
Devin Dienst, 16, Killed in High Speed Crash, Two Other Teens Injured in Driftwood (KLTV)
Authorities Looking for Hit-and-Run Driver Who Killed Maricela Hernandez Near Center (NewsWest9)

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Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Aug 2, 2016 | No Comments

Texas Comptroller’s Office Examines the Fiscal Impacts of Massive Road Spending (Fiscal Notes)
Rick Wamre: Dallas Should Find a City Manager With Experience in Walkable Urban Cities (Advocate)
H-GAC Commits Half a Million to Study Unnecessary 36A Sprawl Road (Houston Chron)
Polling: Only 27% of Austin Voters Would Vote Against the Good Light Rail Plan (Austin Monitor)
TXDOT Paying Police Officers to Help Drivers Through Detour of I-10 in El Paso (KFOX)
TTI Working to Improve Texas A&M Campus Traffic and Parking With Tech Strategies (KBTX)
DART: Proposed D2 Light Rail Route Won’t Work, Opportunity for Subway Proponents (Morning News)
Meeting Wednesday on Proposals to Make Capitol Complex More Bike/Ped Friendly (Austin Bike Ped)
Austin Energy Issues First Ever E-Bike Rebates to BikeTexas to Launch New Program (Austin Energy)

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A Better Bus Stop: Big Ideas From Transit Riders for a Better Wait

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 1, 2016 | No Comments

Streetsblog has been calling attention to the dismal state of transit waiting areas with our Sorriest Bus Stop in America tournament. Transit riders have to put up with conditions that no one should stand for — bus stops with nothing to sit on and no shelter, bus stops by dangerous, high-speed roads with no sidewalks, even “secret” bus stops [...]

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