• Police Searching for Hit and Run Driver Who Killed 5 Year Old Boy, Injured Another (ABC13, Statesman)
• Austin Paints Its First Creative Crosswalk (ATX Mobility)
• Nobody Wants to Talk About Expected Ridership of Proposed Commuter Rail (Houston Chron, HPM)
• South Dallas Hoping New DART Rail Extension Will Bring TOD (Morning News)
• When Urban Form and Lack of Transit Funding Fail People, Nonprofit Buys Them Cars (Morning News)
• Alamo Area MPO Interactive Map Shows Bicycle Stress Level
• Jarrett Walker Responds to Elon Musk and TESLA Talk About Transit (Human Transit)
• …Ask Him About It at the Capital Metro Board Meeting on Monday (Human Transit)
• APTA Having a Sustainability and Transit Workshop in Austin this Weekend

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• Metro Board Votes to Seek Federal Funds for 90A Rail Where Not Many People Are (HPM)
• All Options in I-35 Aesthetics Survey Include Big Ugly Freeway; Vegetative Shade Seems Nice (TXDOT)
• Increasing Capacity Is Main Goal of Both Options in I-35 Virtual Open House — You Can Comment (TXDOT)
• Reminder: Texas Hoping to Subsidize Fossil Fuel Industry Use of Trucks With at Least $1.8 Billion (TXDOT)
• Suspect on Motorcycle Led DFW Police on 100-Mile Chase Reaching 150 mph on I-175 (Morning News)
• San Antonio’s VIA Getting Into Marketing Transit Through Pokemon Go (VIA)
• Alamo Area MPO Would Like to Speak to You About the “Basics and Benefits of #Walkable Communities”
• Jarrett Walker Will Speak At Monday Capital Metro Board Meeting (Austin Monitor)
• Lone Star Rail Leadership Still Thinks That Lone Star Rail Is a Thing (TWC)
• TESLA Working on Robot Bus (TESLA)

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• Why Is San Antonio Still Building Narrow Four Foot Wide Sidewalks? (Mark Tirpak)
• General Motors and Lyft Could Test a Fleet of Robot Cars on Public Roads This Year (Tech Insider)
• You Too Can Be an Activist for $Billion Private High-Speed Rail Project (Texas Central)
• Police Have Not Pressed Charges a Month After Driver Killed 2-Year-Old in Walmart Parking Lot (KVUE, Vision Zero ATX)
• Houston Metro Launches RideMetro App That Launches All Their Other Apps (Write On Metro)
• Houston Metro Board Member: Fix Sidewalks to Transit With the Same Urgency as Potholes (Lex Freiden)
• DART Explains Why They Think D2 is Important, Asks You to Use #D2will Hashtag (DART Daily)

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• Mayor Pro Tem Lopez Says Transit Tax Diversion Is 100% of Richland Hills Road Budget (Star-Telegram)
• Texas Rep Cecil Bell Jr. Has a High Speed Rail Calculator That Does Not Know About TOD (Texas Insider)
• Public Hearings: TX – OK High Speed Rail Study & EIS Aug 9 in Laredo, Aug 10 in Austin, Aug 11 in Arlington (KEYE)
• …How Does This Proposal Relate to the Dream of the MoKan or MoKan’t Passenger Rail? (Statesman)
• STB Says HOU – DAL HSR Does Not Need Fed Approval, Anti-HSR Rep. Brady Declares Victory (WTAW)
• Houston Using Air Quality Funds to Guide Motorists to Open Parking Spots Downtown (KUHF)
• Justin James Forsyth Drove a Motorcycle Drunk and Killed a 4-Year-Old Boy; Police: Not Parents’ Fault (ABC13)

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• Should We Move More Oil and Gas Freight By Other Modes to Reduce the Stress on Roads? (TTI)
• TXDOT Proposal for Oklahoma-South Texas Rail Wouldn’t Actually Stop in Urban Austin (KVUE)
• Houston Metro Will Give You Free Transit Passes for Catching Pokemon on the Bus (Metro)
• Citizen Demand Response System for Potholes May Be Prioritizing Suburban Residents (Houston Chron)
• Jeff Moseley Moves From Texas Transportation Commission to Private HSR Company (Texas Central)
• Anti-Flooding Neighborhood Group Opposes Spending City Wad on Mobility (Central Austin CDC)
• Council of Zoning Elders Narrowly Approves Major Walkable Urban Project (Austin Monitor)

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• Active Transportation May Provide More Than Health Benefits (TX Transportation Institute)
• Houston Planning and Development Department Likes the Congress for the New Urbanism (Matt Camp)
• 120 Letters Means CAMPO Wants to Fast Track Expanding This Sprawl Intersection (Four Points News)
• FILL OUT THE SUNSET COMMISSION SURVEY ON TXDOT — TODAY IS THE LAST DAY
• Motorcycle Passenger Killed After Falling Off Katy Freeway Onramp (KHOU)
• Bexar County Using Office Space Investments to Improve Ped Connections to Creek (Express News)
• Will Austinites Be Allowed to Vote This November for Light Rail Where the Most People and Jobs Are? (Fox7)
• Company Set Up to Build High Speed HyperLoop From Downtown Austin to San Antonio (BizJournals)

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