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Anthony Foxx Wants to Repair the Damage Done By Urban Highways

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 30, 2016 | No Comments

During the first two decades of constructing the Interstate Highway System, almost half a million households were forced to leave their homes. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx is offering a surprisingly honest appraisal of America’s history of road construction this week, with a high-profile speaking tour that focuses on the damage that highways caused in black urban neighborhoods. U.S Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx spoke [...]

Today’s Headlines

By Caitlin McNeely | Mar 30, 2016 | No Comments

Crews Finally Add Last Block of 2-Way Protected Bike Lane in Downtown Houston (@HoustonTomorrow)
Ashby High-Rise Case Could Set Important Precedent in How Houston Embraces Change (Chron)
6 BYOBroadway Finalists Take the Stage PechaKucha-Style for $20,000 Prize Tonight (Rivard Report)
Lege Considering Tweaks to Eminent Domain Law to Favor Landowners in 2017 (Tribune)
2-Way HOV Lanes, Extra Free Lane Approved for San Antonio I-10 Expansion (ExpressNews)
Drivers Started Removing Barriers to Drive on Grand Pkwy Segment G Before It Opened (Chron)Warning to Texas: New Orleans Residents Sue City Over Widespread ADA Inaccessibility (Advocate)
UH Energy Symposium Cites Transpo Tech & Improved Transit in Trend Away From Fossil Fuels (FuelFix)
Grand Pkwy Smiley Face Creepy Due to Death and Enviro Destruction That Will Take Place There (@TXDOT-HOU)

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Highway Tear-outs: Coming Soon to a City Near You

By Patrick Kennedy | Mar 30, 2016 | No Comments

First, the US Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx tweeted this: Anthony Foxx ‏@SecretaryFoxx Mar 29 Transportation is a community function. If it doesn’t work for the entire community, the system doesn’t work. http://wapo.st/1pWSnMi Then the mayor of Los Angeles Eric Garcetti (who is top notch) retweeted, adding: Mayor of Los Angeles ‏@MayorOfLA 16h16 hours ago […]

via $The Urban Edge$

How the “Missing Middle” Can Make Neighborhoods More Walkable

By Kinder Institute | Mar 29, 2016 | No Comments

Ryan Holeywell | March 29, 2016 One designer argues that housing like the duplex can save cities.

Today’s Headlines

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

“Speed Appears to Have Been a Factor” in Death of 3 Children in Dallas Monday (Morning News)
Dallas Continues to Argue Over 1960s Floodway Car Transport Plan (Observer)
Public Gets First Look at City of El Paso Bike Plan (KVIA)
Redfin Says Downtown Dallas Is the Most Walkable Neighborhood in Texas (Morning News)
Austin City Council Wants to Talk About Prioritizing Transportation Spending at Public Meetings
TTI Shares Austin’s Vision of People Circulating Freely “Not by Routinely Using Their Own Cars”
Former VP of Smart Growth America Moves to Houston, Now Supports Freeways (Governing)
Can San Antonio Convert Tourist River Barges to Real Transportation for Locals? (BizJournals)
Be Wary of Swallowing the “Millennials Want Suburbs” Narrative Whole (CityLab)

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Fast Changes to City Streets: A 9-Step Guide for Creative Bureaucrats

By Michael Andersen | Mar 28, 2016 | No Comments

Marshall Avenue and Monroe Avenue, Memphis, Tenn. Photo: John Paul Shaffer Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. For most of the 20th century, cities answered transportation problems by adding more pavement. More freeways. More lanes. More parking lots. More things that couldn’t [...]

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Good Street Networks Do Not Emerge; They Are Designed

By Chris Bradford | Mar 28, 2016 | No Comments

The last time I blogged -- a long, long time ago -- I wrote about the extreme disconnectedness of the South Lamar neighborhood. The maps below, for example, show two points near the geographic center of the neighborhood. Although they...

Today’s Headlines

By Caitlin McNeely | Mar 28, 2016 | No Comments

Outgoing METRO Chair Passes Legacy of Accomplishments to New Chair (Houston Chronicle)
DART to Follow Houston’s Lead in Bus System Overhaul, But With Slow Implementation (Morning News)
Livestream Tomorrow: TTI Researchers Testify at Texas Senate Committee on Transportation
HISD’s High School for the Performing and Visual Arts Unveils Timeline for Downtown Campus (HBJ)
Tonight: Choose Your Favorite River Barge Design to Replace San Antonio’s Old Fleet (Rivard Report)
Awesome Plan to Turn Buffalo Bayou Cistern Into a Public Bath House With a Bike Path In It (Swamplot)
Study Erroneously Measures Houston Sprawl as Distance From Downtown, No Account for Polycentrism (HBJ)
At Least 8 Dead in Traffic Crashes Over the Easter Weekend (Chron, Chron, Morning News, KSAT)

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Are Houston’s Transportation and Urban Revolutions Here to Stay?

By Kinder Institute | Mar 25, 2016 | No Comments

Kyle Shelton | March 25, 2016 Linking citizen-advocates, transportation officials, and public officials is big first step.

Today’s Headlines

By Caitlin McNeely | Mar 25, 2016 | No Comments

Houston, Dallas Top List For Greatest Population Growth in 2015 Census (Morning News)
63 Cities in the Running for Best Complete Streets Policy 2015, Not a Single One from Texas (SGA)
9 Most Confusing, Congested Intersections in Houston, According to Houston Press
GlobeSherpa to Develop New Mobile Ticketing App for DART, Step Toward Statewide Interoperability?
Metro Grants Free Use of HOT Lanes to Disabled Vets, But Worries It Might Slow Transit Corridor (Chron)
Single-Card METRO-Bike Share System, Transit-Oriented B-Cycle Expansion Win Student Competition (MobilityHouston)
Role-Reversal: Uptown High-Rise Developer Files Claim Against NIMBYs First (Houston Chronicle)

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Nine Barriers to Building Housing in Austin’s Central City

By Dan Keshet | Mar 25, 2016 | No Comments

The Austin area has, for the 5th year running, been in the top two major cities in population growth. Yet, even though everybody knows about the new apartments sprouting up on transportation corridors like South Lamar and Burnet, much of the population growth has been in our suburbs and the more suburban areas of the city. Our […]

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Parking! The DNA of Place… or Anti-Place

By Patrick Kennedy | Mar 24, 2016 | No Comments

I know. I know. Parking seems so mundane. But, what if I told you that how parking is handled from both a coding and design standpoint is one of the most critical determinants in the quality and thus value of a place? Well, guess what? We’ll be talking about parking next Thursday evening at the […]

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