• City of Houston Now Posting Safe Passing Ordinance Signs (Critical Mass Houston)
• TTI Claims Multimodal LOS Model They Are Developing for El Paso Is Better than ITE’s (TTI)
• Dallas Assistant City Manager in Charge of Trinity Road Might Leave for McKinney (Morning News)
• Dallas Faces Classic “Where Do You Tell the Europeans to Go Shopping” Problem (D Magazine)
• Galveston & TXDOT Breaking Ground on Pedestrian Improvement Project on Seawall (TXDOT)
• Ineffective Houston Arterial Stroad Grid Has Roots in 1837 Republic of Texas Land Grants (Swamplot)

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• City of Houston Seeks Engineers to Study Benefit of Downtown Stop for Bullet Train (Chron)
• Firms Competing to Conduct Bullet Train Study Have Until May 27 to Apply to Houston Public Works
• Mayor Turner to Give First State of Mobility Address on May 17 (TAG)
• City and County Approve $10M for Brand New Parking Crater in Downtown SA (Rivard)
• Mayor Adler Announces Austin Don’t Rush: An Experiment in Traffic Demand Management May 11
• SA Tomorrow‘s Draft Multimodal Transportation & Sustainability Plans Now Available
• TX State Fair Turned a 70-Acre Neighborhood Into Vacant Lots for Occasional Parking (DallasNews)
• TX Supreme Court Ruling Lets Companies Like Uber Keep Their Records Secret (Chron)

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• Houston Parks Board Borrowed Google Trekker Pack and Walked to Add Trails and Parks to Streetview (HPB)
• Dallas Morning News Does Not Think Dallas Should Pay for Infrastructure By Borrowing
• Let’s All Make Fun of Austin’s Ride-Hailing War, But It’s Really a Warmup for #TXLege (CityLab)
• Lyft Reminds Everyone That They Already Left Houston in 2014 Over Fingerprinting (Houston Chron)
• TXDOT Open House Tonight to Discuss 35 to 183 Flyovers. $204M = ~600 Miles of Sidewalk (KXAN)
• You Have Until Wednesday to Tell Harris County to Get Their Road Plans Off the Katy Prairie (Swamplot)

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• Walkable DFW & Uptown Dallas Want to Turn McKinney & Cole Into Two-Way Streets (Morning News)
• Driver Fails to Yield, Kills Motorcyclist William Bristol at Intersection Built for Speed (Morning News)
• How Much of SA 2017 Bond Will Improve Urban Core vs. More Expensive Sprawl Options? (Rivard)
• Will Rural Texas Finally See Urbanists as Allies, Unlike “Suburbatarians”? (Make West Texas Great Again)
• McKinney Family Tries to Defend the Farm Against Sprawl Road for Developer (Morning News)
• Burleson, TX, Hiring Senior Planner to Help Implement Smart Code (CNU)
• Check Out Alamo Area MPO’s Walk and Roll Bike Month Events
• Take Your Mom to BikeHouston’s CycloFemme Sunday May 8 on a 10- or 20-Mile Route

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• Midtown Houston Grocery Store Wants to Be More Urban, Ped Friendly (Houston Chron)
• Someone Crashed a Box Truck Into a Train Carrying Up to 200 People, 2 Hospitalized (Houston Chron)
• City Audit Says Austin Isn’t Coordinating Transportation Policy Effectively (BizJournals)
• …And City Failed to Use Crash Data to Improve Safety (KXAN)
• Music Venue Uses Outdoor Stage to Skirt Houston Parking Requirements (Houston Chron)
• Austin Neighbors Sue to Have Antiquated Zoning System Try to Stop Urban Development (BizJournals)
• Pedestrian Pete: True Walkability Means Location in Midst of Street Life With Actual Sidewalks (FPH)

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• Uber Threatens to Leave Houston Over Fingerprinting & Requirements Agreed to in 2014 (Houston Chron)
• Mayor Turner Won’t Compromise Public Safety — Giving Threats Isn’t How We Do It Here (Periscope)
• Paving Our Prairies With Sprawl Roads Contributes to Flooding (Houston Chron)
• May Is National Bike Month. May 15 Is Bike to Work Day. Houston. Austin. DFW. El Paso. Denton. Hutto.
• El Paso Laying Down Some Fresh Kermit: Bike Lanes and Bike Boxes! (El Paso Times)
• San Antonio State of the Center City Luncheon With Council Member Robert Treviño — Tuesday, May 10
• City of Austin Mobility Department Claims Electric Robot Bus Possible By 2018
• Dallas Gives Firm Incentive to Move Further From Downtown, But Technically Into City (D Magazine)
• How Many Texans Live or Work in “Safe Crossing Deserts” — Most? (Spacing Toronto)

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