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Developers Are Required to Make Car-Friendly Houses. Read One Coop’s Reply!

By Dan Keshet | | No Comments
Anybody building housing outside downtown is required to make it car-friendly by building or buying parking spaces. ICC Coops is a non-profit with a social mission for providing affordable, democratically-run housing. They ran into these requirements as they’re building out their new affordable student housing in West Campus. Unlike most developers, they decided to fight the […]

Today’s Headlines

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  • Pasadena Girl, 12, Killed By Driver (Pasadena Citizen)
  • Austin’s Capital Metro Suggests Adding a Cul-de-Sac to Downtown Austin Rail Station (KXAN)
  • San Antonio Council Member Nirenberg Calls For Light Rail in 2017 Bond (Rivard Report)
  • Austin Neighborhood Council: Affordability a Trojan Horse Sent to Destroy Single Family Neighborhoods
  • Disabled Veterans to Get Free Transit and Use of Toll Lanes in Houston (Houston Chronicle)
  • Wrong-Way Driver Kills Two People in San Antonio (KSAT)
  • Listen: BikeHouston and TEI Talk About the Bike Plan on Houston Matters Radio
  • Community Mourns Death of Local Couple Killed in Motorcycle Crash (KWTX)
  • First Phase Trinity Parkway Will Be Smaller Than the Large Scale Version to Come (Morning News)

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H-GAC TPC discusses creation of a regional Vision Zero Task Force, kinda

By jay.crossley@houstontomorrow.org | | No Comments
Today the members of the Houston-Galveston Area Transportation Policy Council (TPC) discussed the re-establishment of the Regional Safety Council, a body that would study comprehensively and across disciplines how to improve transportation safety and reduce traffic-related deaths and serious injuries throughout the 13-county Gulf Coast region. If this sounds a…

Today’s Headlines

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  • Sign the Petition to Put Houston’s Bike Plan Into Action
  • Coalition Files Suit Against South MoPac Toll Project, to Force Environmental Impact Study (SOS Alliance)
  • TXDOT Asks Public For Better Ideas than Blowing Money on Unnecessary Roads
  • “Houston, We Got This”: Turner Says Pothole Partnerships, Process Will Tackle Other Issues (Chron)
  • Austin Student Housing Co-op Asks for Help With Parking Variance Since No One Wants to Drive
  • TXDOT Approves Temporary Toll Lanes, Seeks $1.4B for Disastrous Highway Expansion (Morning News)
  • Austin Weighs Options for Funding Sidewalks, Bike Facilities (Community Impact)
  • Demand-Priced Toll Lanes One Solution for Freight Movement (Morning News)

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Today’s Headlines

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  • Jeff Speck Gave Walkability Talk to Mayor Turner, City Leadership (Urban Edge)
  • Alamo Area MPO Asking Citizens to Pick from Proposed Projects for Funding (Rivard)
  • Houston CIP Meetings Are Happening — Ask for Complete Streets, Dedicated Lane Transit
  • A Driver Struck and Killed Cyclist Richard Johnson on a Very Incomplete Harris Co Road Yesterday (ABC13)
  • Houston Metro Launching Mobile Ticketing Systemwide in Time for Rodeo (Houston Chron)
  • Austinites Totally Upset That Building Freeways Doesn’t Actually Work Out Well (KUT)
  • Frisco “Mixed Use” Ensures All Uses Separated by Parking & Landscaping (Morning News)
  • 35W Coalition Celebrates Decade of Road Spending & Widening (Star Telegram)
  • Dallas Leads State in New Downtown Apartments, Adding 4,600 Units (Morning News)
  • Tickets Still Available for APA’s Texas Big 6 Gathering in Austin on March 3 (Not Of It)
  • Most “Affordable Housing” Units in Dallas Aren’t, Given Transportation Costs (Morning News)

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Sober Non-Partisan Analysis: America Wastes a Ton of Money on Highways

By Angie Schmitt | | No Comments
Photo: Dhanix/Wikipedia A good deal of the $46 billion the federal government pours into highway spending each year is going to waste, according to a new Congressional Budget Office report [PDF]. The conclusion won’t surprise regular Streetsblog readers, but it’s the source that’s interesting. The CBO is not an advocacy group or an ideologically-minded think tank. It’s a non-partisan budget watchdog charged [...]

Today’s Headlines

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  • New Harris Co Comm Locke Brokers First Deal to Fix City Roads With County Funds (Houston Chron)
  • Sylvester Turner Retweets Houston Tomorrow Suggestion for Equitable Use of County Bond Funds
  • San Antonio Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan Neighborhood Workshops Are March 1 – 3
  • City of Coppell Seeing Rash of Bike Crashes (NBCDFW)
  • Kyle Shelton: We Could All Learn a Lesson About Safety From This Pink Sign (The Urban Edge)
  • San Antonio’s Build Your Own Broadway Ideas Competition Has $20,000 in Prizes Available
  • TXDOT Proposes Adding “Shared Use” Wide Car Lane, 5′ Sidewalks, and Landscaping to Part of FM1960
  • Kinder Institute & Transit Center Hosting Discussion of Transportation Advocacy on March 23
  • TXDOT Hosting Public Meeting on $287 Million 610/59 Interchange Project on March 3

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ULI/ASHE Breakfast

By Patrick Kennedy | | No Comments
This morning I dragged Matt Tranchin (say hi Matt!) to a breakfast panel organized by Urban Land Institute (ULI) of North Texas and the American Society of Highway Engineers (ASHE).  Mayor Maher Maso of Frisco gave the opening talk after which was followed by a panel including Texas Transportation Commissioner Victor Vandergriff, TxDOT Dallas district […]

Today’s Headlines

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  • Real Estate Pros, Engineers Push for Answers on Why We Aren’t Funding More Transit (Morning News)
  • Residents, Business Owners Debate Shared Parking Area Scheme for Montrose (Chron)
  • Swamplot Comment Sums Up the Tragedy of Building a Parking Lot Between a School and Light Rail Stop
  • Work Begins on the Super Bright Artsy Intersection at Houston’s Downtown Light Rail (Swamplot)
  • Study Finds Most Affordable Housing in TX Not Affordable When Transpo Costs Counted (Morning News)
  • According to Inaccurate Report, All Millennials Dream of Living in the Suburbs (Houston Chronicle)

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City Walk: The Television Series

By Patrick Kennedy | | No Comments
I stumbled across this last night whilst looking for a documentary on Amazon.  Apparently, PBS has been producing a television series on walking in cities.  They’re now up to season 2.  Who knew?!  It may occasionally veer into lecturing on the health benefits of walking like someone lecturing you on how to recycle, but there […]

Today’s Headlines

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  • San Antonio Makes Strides Toward Vision Zero, Including $15 Million for Sidewalks (Rivard Report)
  • BYOBroadway: Submit Your Design to This Open Competition to Transform Broadway St. (Rivard Report)
  • Another Fatal Crash Shuts Down US-59 South (ABC13)
  • Fresh Eyes and One Little Line Could Make the Trinity Toll Road Disappear (Observer)
  • 5 Questions About DART’s Facial Recognition Plan (Observer)
  • Galleria Residents Mounting Fierce Campaign Against Affordable Housing Project (Houston Chronicle)
  • Slideshow: Houston’s Best Trails Right Now (Chron)
  • Attend Houston’s Upcoming CIP Meetings (Not of It)
  • Go to BikeHouston‘s Annual Meeting Feb 23 for All the Latest on the Houston Bike Plan
  • Dallas Farmers Market: Battleground Over How to Address the City’s Homeless Problem (Observer)

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