Today’s Headlines

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  • Dallas Morning News Writer Pens Anti-Walking in Weather, Pro Tunnels Screed
  • Bexar County Commissioner Kevin Wolff Rear Ended Two Vehicles in Drive Thru, Arrested for DWI (Rivard)
  • Dallas Observer Suggests Christie Myers Actually Ditch Her Car for Transit Riding Experiment
  • The Woodlands Township First Ever Pedestrian and Bicycle Master Plan Available for Comment
  • Austin’s CAMPO Hiring Senior Planner With Experience Dealing With TXDOT STIP
  • New San Antonio Riverwalk Barges Are ADA Compliant (Mayor Ivy TaylorCM Roberto C. Trevino)
  • Driver Exceeds 100 MPH, Smashes Into Utility Pole, Killing 3 People Inside Car (FoxSanAntonio)
  • Pickup Driver Kills Motorcyclist on 610 Loop at 1:30 AM (Houston Chron)

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  • Capital Metro Doesn’t Really Want Key Transit Design Element of Bond Proposal (Austin Monitor)
  • “Multimodal” CTRMA Spending $130 Million on Flyovers at One Toll Road Intersection (Statesman)
  • The OK-TX HSR Proposal Could Continue to Monterrey, Mexico (BizJournals)
  • UT-Arlington Students Counting Every Tree in Downtown Dallas for Walkability Study (Morning News)
  • San Antonio Council to Vote on Sustainability, Transportation, and Comprehensive Plan Tomorrow (Rivard)
  • Corridor Part of Austin Bonds Includes 18.4 Miles of Sidewalk, 38.4 Miles of Bike Lanes (Community Impact)
  • Unified Transportation Plan Confirms Prop 1 and 7 Are Nightmares of Road Spending (Houston Chron)

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67 Congress Members Tell Feds: Measure the Movement of People, Not Cars

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If U.S. DOT doesn’t change its proposed congestion metric, 50 people riding in a bus will count as much as one person in an SUV. Image: Transportation for America The federal government hands states about $40 billion a year for transportation, money they can basically spend however they want. The result in many places is a lot of expensive, traffic-inducing highways [...]

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  • More Frequent Service Is the Top Priority for Austinites’ in CapMetro Survey (Capital MetroBlog)
  • Another Intercity Bus Service, Shofer, to Provide Houston <-> Dallas Service (BizJournals)
  • Houston Police Officer Drives Through Red Light, Hits Bicyclist (About News)
  • Grand Opening at Renovated Shopping Center on Bayou Greenway for Houston’s First Bike Through Restaurant
  • What a Smart City Means to the Central Texas Mobility Authority
  • Planning Commission Sends All Three Plans of SATomorrow to San Antonio City Council (Express News)
  • Traffic Deaths at Red Lights Have Gone Up in Cities That Have Turned Off Cameras (AP)

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Report: Access to Car-Share and Bike-Share Is Worse in Communities of Color

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In many major American cities, communities of color have worse access to car-share and bike-share than majority white neighborhoods. Chart: Shared Use Mobility Center Car-share and bike-share services are making it easier to go without owning a car in American cities, but access to “shared-use” systems remains limited in communities of color compared to majority-white neighborhoods, according to a new analysis [...]

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  • Erratic Hit-and-Run Driver Killed 20 Year Old Man Last Night in Manor (KXAN)
  • Kyle Workman, Leader of Texas Anti-HSR, Pretending Texas Is Not an Urban State (Bloomberg)
  • Anti-HSR Groups Will Make Blocking Texas Central an Issue for Third Consecutive Session (Tribune)
  • Pedestrian Connection at Mockingbird Station Prioritized Thanks to NCTCOG Ped Counts (Morning News)
  • San Antonio’s $850M Bond Will Be Based On Extensive Public Process, Unlike Austin (Express News)
  • Indicted Judge Doyal Appealing Suspension While Still Listed as Member of H-GAC TPC (Houston Chron)
  • Capital Metro to Increase Frequency, Add Stations and More Buses to MetroRapid (Community Impact)
  • DFW Now Having Meaningful Debate About Prioritization of Urban or Sub-urban Transit (Morning News)
  • Gondola Proposal Requires Staffing Each Station – at Least 23 Staff (>$1M/Year) for 1 Route (CTRMA)
  • Capital Metro App Upgrades Actually Look Pretty Good

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  • Mueller Has Plans Showing 600 Sq Ft Lots – 32 of Them in the Middle of a Block (MATX)
  • TXDOT and City of El Paso Lower Speed Limit on Section of I-10 in Response to Crashes (El Paso Inc.)
  • Jarrett Walker Told Capital Metro That Ride-Hailing Doesn’t Matter Much for Transit Agencies (Monitor)
  • Walkable, Bikeable Town Center Development Finally Moving Forward at La Canterra (MySA)
  • Survey Shows Houston Metro Riders Are Satisfied With Service (Urban Edge)
  • Austin: You Can Attend and Make Sure Central Health Strategic Plan Includes Safe Streets, Built Form
  • Rawlings Pays Resident of Nearby Car Dependent City to Ride DART, Share Experience (Morning News)
  • DART Holding Public Meetings on Proposed Street Car Extension to Bishop Arts District (DART)
  • Bicycle Storage Room is Now a Cool Amenity for Downtown San Antonio Redevelopments (Express News)
  • Corpus Christi Funding Initial Bike-Share Program Partially From Parking Meters (Caller Times)

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  • New TTI Brochure Claims Added Road Capacity Can Reduce Congestion, Ignores Induced Congestion
  • Hit-and-Run Truck Driver Killed Pedestrian in El Paso Saturday Night (El Paso Proud)
  • Traffic Fatalities in El Paso 41% Higher Than This Time Last Year (El Paso Times)
  • Austin Transportation Officials Blame Distracted Drivers for Failing to Trigger Traffic Signals (KUT)
  • Mayor Adler Explains How His Corridor Plan Is Not Anti-Bike, Anti-Bus, Anti-Ped (Medium)
  • Tweet Alamo Area MPO Pictures of #Walkability in Your San Antonio Neighborhood (AAMPO)

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