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Sprawl and the Cost of Living

By Joe Cortright | Jul 6, 2016 | No Comments

Cross-posted from City Observatory. Over the past three weeks, we’ve introduced the “sprawl tax”—showing how much more Americans pay in time and money because of sprawling urban development patterns. We’ve also shown how much higher the sprawl tax is in the US than in other economically prosperous countries, and how sprawl and long commutes impose a [...]

Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Jul 6, 2016 | No Comments

UTA Studying Downtown Dallas Walkability (City of Dallas)
City of Austin Installs Hybrid Pedestrian Beacon Near School, Part of Priority Intersections (KEYE)
City of Houston Proposes $150M for Greenways, $26M for Sidewalks, $800M Total for Complete Streets Over 5 Years
CTRMA Wants You to Take the Oak Hill Parkway Survey on Aesthetics Considerations
Austin BCycle Has a Wiki Up Where You Can Suggest New Stations & Vote for Your Favorites
San Antonio Residents Opposing Park Plan to Remove Parking, Car Access (NowCastSA)
CapMetro Says They Will Release App Update With New Trip Planner and Next Departure This Summer
San Antonio Added 50 Second-Generation BCycles (KSAT)

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Park & Rides Lose Money and Waste Land — But Agencies Keep Building Them

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 5, 2016 | No Comments

Transit agencies shell out big bucks to build and operate parking facilities. But how much do we really know about what they get for their money? The surface parking lot at WMATA’s Branch Avenue station. Photo: TRB Researchers Lisa Jacobson and Rachel Weinberger surveyed 37 American transit agencies about park-and-ride facilities. They found that despite the expense of [...]

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

Road Blogger Tory Gattis Believes in Latent Demand, Advocates for Seamless BRT (Houston Strategies)
Nearly Every Person in Room Opposes Toll Road, Assumes TXDOT Will Build It Anyway (Texas Tribune)
Is Austin Capital Metro’s Declining Ridership All Because of Infrequent “Rapid Bus”? (Statesman)
Freeway Construction in Fort Worth Held Responsible for 20% Increase in Crashes (Star-Telegram)
Progress North Texas 2016 Report Focuses on Safety, Kinda; Also, Increasing Speed (NCTCOG)
Lots of Texans Killed in Traffic Over Holiday Weekend, Like in Medina (KSAT)
Livable Centers Proposals for Complete Streets on Buffalo Speedway and Timmons Are Rad (HGAC)

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U.S. Traffic Fatalities Rising Fast — Especially Pedestrian and Cyclist Deaths

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 1, 2016 | No Comments

Traffic fatalities in America hit a seven-year high in 2015, with pedestrians and cyclists accounting for a disproportionate share of the alarming increase, according to preliminary data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Last year, 35,200 people were killed in traffic — a 7.7 percent increase over 2014 and the worst death toll since 2008. The number of people killed while walking [...]

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By Jay Blazek Crossley | Jul 1, 2016 | No Comments

Bike Around the Bay for 176.4 Miles on October 15 & 16 to Support the Galveston Bay Foundation
Fort Worth Council Adopts Simple Registration – No Fingerprints – for TNC (KHOU)
Express News: Replace LSTAR With Something That Will Actually Get SA – AUS Passenger Rail
More Apartments Under Construction – 50,000 – in DFW Than Anywhere Else in Nation (Morning News
Dallas Residents Pushing for CityMAP to Actually Undo Destructive Effects of Highways (Morning News)
San Antonio Council Passes Ordinance to Protect School Buses with Traffic Cameras (Texas Public Radio)
Will Texas Law Trip Up America’s Best Chance at High Speed Rail? (Slate)
Could Nonprofit Ride Austin Become a National Model for TNC? (GovTech)
Ride Austin Currently at 200 Rides a Day (Dan Keshet)

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Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Jun 30, 2016 | 3 Comments

Commission Removes Judge Doyal From Duties for Secret Holy Road Bond Talks (Houston Chron)
Doyal, ~~Chris~~ Charlie Riley – Both Indicted – Still Listed as Members of HGAC Transportation Policy Council
1950s Critics Correct in Opposing the Interstate Highway System as a Form of Socialism (Houston Chron)
Mark Tirpak: Car-Centric Breckenridge Parks Plan Should Refocus on Ped, Bike, & Access (NowCastSA)
Only Men in Picture of TTC Workshop on $38.3B Unified Transportation Plan (TXDOT)
Texas Department of Highways Says Unified Transportation Plan Is About Roads (TXDOT)
Deadline for Comments on the Unified Transportation Plan — August 22 (TXDOT)
Texas Central Gets Federal Protective Order to Keep Confidential Data on HSR (Surface Transpo Board)
Proposed Fort Worth TEX Rail Commuter Train Project Gets Federal Letter of No Prejudice (Star-Telegram)

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Houston’s Big Chance to Turn Back the Tide of Car Traffic

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 29, 2016 | No Comments

TxDOT’s $7 billion plan for downtown Houston may tear down the Pierce Elevated Freeway while expanding I-45. Some civic leaders question why more resources won’t be devoted to transit. Image: TxDOT via Swamplot There’s a lot riding on Texas DOT’s $7 billion plan for downtown Houston freeways. TxDOT has been working for more than a decade on a plan [...]

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By Jay Blazek Crossley | Jun 29, 2016 | No Comments

Houston Region’s Current Stock of Parking Spots Slightly Larger Than the 610 Loop (Jesse Thornsen)
Here Is the Texas Sunset Commission Survey About the Texas Dept of Transportation
Thursday, 9 a.m.: Texas Traffic Safety Task Force Presentation at TX Transpo Commission, 125 E 11th, Austin
Patrick Kennedy: Why Texas Is Spending Too Much on Roads (Strong Towns)
TTC, Sen Watson, Rep Israel, Mayor Adler Sure Think They’ll Tame Congestion With This I-35 Spending
Dallas Innovation Alliance Is Its Own Smart City Challenge With Ped Tech + Parking Tech (D Magazine)
New Plan for 8th Wonder of the World: Make the Astrodome a Parking Garage (Click2Houston)
You Can Prioritize Transit and Walkability at Hobby Area Livable Centers Workshop on July 13

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“Opportunity Score” Shows Best Places to Find a Job Without Owning a Car

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 28, 2016 | No Comments

The 30-minute transit shed near the author’s house, overlaid with a heatmap of jobs paying $40,000 or more. Image: Redfin/Opportunity Score Which places put economic opportunity within reach for residents who don’t own cars? There’s a new tool to evaluate housing locations according to the accessibility of jobs via transit and walking. Redfin, the company that runs Walk Score, today released “Opportunity Score,” [...]

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By Jay Blazek Crossley | Jun 28, 2016 | No Comments

DWI Arrests Rose Slightly Compared to 2015 After Uber & Lyft Left Austin (KEYE)
Is Anyone Recording Data on Wild West of Underground Ride-Hailing Happening in Austin? (Vocativ)
San Antonio Took Over Fredericksburg Corridor From TXDOT, Could Focus on Sidewalks (ExpressNews)
Houston Chronicle: Imbalanced Funding and Anti-Bike Policies Are Serious Equity Issue
State Commission May Suspend County Judge Doyal for Secret Talks on Holy Road Bond (Courier)
City of El Paso Wishes to Become the Least Car-Dependent City in the Southwest (GovTech)
TXDOT Will Study Negative Impacts of Mopac Intersection Project (Center for Biological Diversity)
Houston’s Housing Affordability Completely Negated by High Transportation Costs (City Observatory)

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How to Counter the Victim-Blaming Impulse After a Traffic Crash

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 27, 2016 | No Comments

When a driver strikes someone walking or biking, the tendency to blame the victim runs deep. Ask Raquel Nelson, who lost her young son to a hit-and-run driver, then got convicted for vehicular homicide, even though she was just trying to walk across the street with her children from a bus stop to her home. Or [...]

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