• CEO Tom Lambert: Metro Working on BRT-Lite for Outer Westheimer (Not Of It)
• Driver Kills 14-Year-Old Boy Riding Bike — Austin Police Suggest Reflectors (KXAN)
• Family of Paige Balinski, Killed By Hit-and-Run Driver, Collecting Donations to Pay Funeral Expenses
• Austinites Believe That 1946 Ideas About Housing Development Should Block Density (MyStatesman)
• TXDOT Austin District Presented on Vision Zero at Austin Pedestrian Advisory Committee Monday (City of Austin)
• The Kellers, a Family of Six, Travel the Streets of Austin on a Quattrocycle (Statesman)
• City of Austin Improving Transit by Setting Up Bus Jumping at Intersections (CapMetro)

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• San Antonio’s New VIVA Bus Service to Cultural, Historic Places Started Operating Yesterday
• Adler’s Bond Proposal Assumes TXDOT’s $14B Budget Can’t Afford Urban Streets (Statesman)
• …A Better Modal Mix for $720M Has a Better Chance of Passing (Keep Austin Wonky)
• City of Houston’s Annual Report to Houston Coalition for Complete Streets Is Tonight at 6:30 pm
• How to Improve Texas’s Best Bus Line (the 82)? Install Walkable Urbanism. Fill Out the Survey.
• Brown Foundation Gives $3M More to Bayou Greenways, Only $17M Shy of Total Goal (BizJournals)
• Austin Required Parking for 57 Cars for Affordable Housing, But Residents Only Have 12 Cars (KXAN)

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• Texas Spending Billions on Toll Roads When It Should Be Investing in Flood Protection (CityLab)
• 100-Foot-Wide Section of Highway 6 Swept Away by Floods Near Crosby (Lonnie Pevey)
• Robert Rivard: The Time to Invest in Transit in San Antonio Is Now
• Hit-and-Run Driver Strikes Cyclist Paige Balinski, 23, From Behind, Inflicting Fatal Injuries (Click2Houston)
• Bryan/College Station Metropolitan Planning Organization Hiring a New Executive Director
• Anti-Development Argument in San Antonio: “Density” Puts Elementary School at Risk (Express News)
• Austin Urban Trails Have New Very Useful — Not Just for Tourists — Wayfinding Signs (Tom Wald)

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• Austin Transit Advocates Seek Bond Election for the Good Light Rail Plan in November (Statesman)
• Anti-Rail Transit TPPF Board Members Electioneering Against Republican House Leaders (Quorum)
• Does the Buck Stop Anywhere in Dallas City Manager/Weak Mayor System? (Morning News)
• TXDOT Signs I-10 Charter With NM, CA, AZ. Does It mean Truck/Auto Separation in Houston? (@ArizonaDOT)
• SA Mayor Taylor Opposes Larger Affordable Housing Bond in Favor of Streets & Drainage (Express News)
• Will Funding for Austin’s New Office of Equity Include Assessment of Transportation Equity? (NextCity)
• Five Houston Region Business Groups Express Support for Houston to Dallas High Speed Rail (TXCentral)
• Help Crowdfund Your Headline Writer’s Research into Equity, Texas MPOs, and Transportation Spending

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• Sen, Watson Wants to Get Rid of All Signals on SH71 From Mopac Through Bastrop With Overpasses (TxDOT Austin)
• Lower Westheimer Reimagining Expected to Prioritize Pedestrians, Then Transit (Houston Chron)
• Two People Killed One Hour Apart in East Houston Trying to Walk Across Fast Roads (Houston Chron)
• Laredo Taxi Driver Turns Right Into Person Riding Bicycle, Who Should Be Okay (Fox39)
• AAA Reveals Which Distractions Cause Teen Drivers to Crash (CBS)
• UT School of Architecture Teaching Tactical Urbanism With Hands-on Projects (ReportingTexas)
• Dallas Starting Over With Patriots Crossing TOD Effort (Morning News)
• With Roads Closed From Floods in Many Texas Counties, It’s a Good Time to Question Car Dependency

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• North Texas Toll Roads Also Inducing Apartments (Morning News)
• Alexander Barrera: Embrace San Antonio’s Tejano Tradition of Public Spaces (Rivard)
• #TXLege Examines Socializing All SOV Road Use Costs, Imposing Costs on Taxpayers (Houston Chron)
• Terrifying Sprawl Development to Pave Over Katy Prairie Because of Grand Parkway (BizJournals)
• Houston Man Shot in Possible Road Rage Altercation After Crash (Houston Chron)
• Transportation Investment Summit: “Future of Mobility and Growth” in Irving, August 16-17
• Conversation About Multimodality Hosted by Energy Corridor and Mobility Houston: June 7
• Talbott, Director of Harris County Flood Control, Doubts Sprawl Increases Flooding (KUHF)

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• Dallas Street Fighters: Time to Build a Vision and Goals for the Next City Manager (Morning News)
• NTTA Knowingly Causes Traffic By Building Roads to Spur Car Dependent Development (Morning News)
• Man on Tractor Beats Car Dependency to Deliver Whataburger to Neighbors in Flood (Morning News)
• Arlington Stadium Subsidies Crowd Out Sales Tax $ That Could Support Transit (Morning News)
• Caleb Alan Pritchard Maps 7 Major Corridors to Be Redone With $720 Bond Proposed by Adler
• VIA Tweaking Bus Routes (San Antonio Express News)
• Three SFA College Students Die in Fiery Speed-Related Car Crash in Nacogdoches (KLTV)
• Jeff Speck Explains Why Austin Needs the Grove for Its Economy, Health, and Environment
• Cities, Harris County, TXDOT Unite to Provide More Traffic Options to Lake Houston (Tribune)

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