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Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Feb 11, 2016 | No Comments

ICYMI: Steve Radack Said, “This is Texas. People Either Want to Own a Horse or a Car.” (Houston Chron)
Austin City Council Will Consider Proposal for Public Process to Prioritize Transpo Projects Today
APD Using Buses to Catch People Driving While Texting (KEYE)
Houston Declares 1917 Building TXDOT Needs to Raze for I-45/59 a Historic Landmark (Dug Begley)
$174M Earmarked for North Texas Rail Projects in President Obama’s Final Budget (Morning News)
30-Story Apartment Tower Coming to San Antonio’s Downtown Riverwalk (Express News)
Union Pacific Backs Out of Deal to Study Lone Star Rail District Using Their Tracks (MySA)
Austin First Cracked Down on Ride-Sharing in 1915 (KUT)
You Could Sign Petition to Support Small Lot Amnesty in Austin for February 11 Vote Today
TTI Releases Report on Texas Transportation Reinvestment Zones
TXDOT Be Building More Tollways All the Time

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Bring Back Tar & Feathering

By Patrick Kennedy | Feb 10, 2016 | No Comments

There are three articles that are worth your time. The first is the longest and least immediately relevant locally, so maybe print it out, take it home, and read it if you’re into the low tech version. Or save it to your pocket and read it on the train or something. First, is Rick Robinson […]

Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Feb 10, 2016 | No Comments

Austin, Lubbock and 75 “Midsize Cities” in Other States Competing for USDOT Smart City Challenge
Activists Ironically Oppose Texas High Speed Rail While Ignoring I-10 Sealy Expansion (KHOU)
San Antonio Express News Claims Subsidizing SOV Travel “Helps” Motorists
AURA Publishes Responses to Questionnaire for Austin Democratic Legislative Primary in HD 49
San Antonio’s VIA Transit Reducing Costs of Some Fares and Passes
Cost of Proposed SOV Expansion on 183 in Austin Triples at CAMPO Meeting (Austin Monitor)
Construction of METRO’s Harrisburg Light Rail Overpass Delayed Again (Houston Chron)

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Obama’s Last Budget Lays Out a Smart Vision for American Transportation

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 9, 2016 | No Comments

The White House released its 2017 budget [PDF] this morning, which includes more detail about the exciting but politically doomed transportation proposal President Obama outlined last week. Obama’s plan doesn’t have a chance in the current Congress, but it shows what national transportation policy centered on reducing greenhouse gas emissions might look like. If only candidate Obama had campaigned on this transportation [...]

Today’s Headlines

By Caitlin McNeely | Feb 9, 2016 | No Comments

Good Timing for Turner, Legislature Wants TXDOT to Broaden Its Thinking (Houston Chronicle)
Deck Parks, Transit, Leadership Mark Sea Change in Texas Transportation (Morning News)
Cars Held Hostage Indefinitely in Burning Parking Garage (Rivard Report)
Meeting: Doubling Houston’s Bikeway Network in the Short Term, Feb 11 (BikeHouston)
Forum: James Sallis, Designing Cities for Active Living, Feb 11 (Kinder Institute)
Rice Design Alliance Rethinks Urban Highways and How to Fit More People in the City (Houstonia)
1920’s Houston Blue Tile Street Signs Get Geotagged in Effort to Restore (CityLab)
AURA Asks for Candidates’ Views on State Issues That Affect Austin’s Land Use, Transit
Dunlavy at Allen Parkway Is Finally Getting a Traffic Signal (Swamplot)

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Obama’s Politically Impossible Transpo Plan Is Just What America Needs

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 8, 2016 | No Comments

Even with a tax on oil, the U.S.’s effective gas tax rate would be the lowest in the industrialized world. Graph: Tony Dutzik via FHWA It may be “seven years too late,” as tactical urbanist Mike Lydon put it, but President Obama has released a transportation proposal that calls for big shifts in the country’s spending priorities. Obama’s proposal would [...]

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By Caitlin McNeely | Feb 8, 2016 | No Comments

Turner to TXDOT: There’s a Better Way (Houston Chronicle)
Two Children Killed, Three Others Injured in Crash on Highway 380 in Denton (Morning News)
Give Mayor Adler Your Ideas For a Transportation Bond in November (Austin Business Journal)
…Like This Highway Cap Park Design in Seattle (NextCity)
When Drivers Hit Pedestrians, Where Do We Lay the Blame and Why? (D Magazine)
Hemisfair Mixed-Income Project: Attract People Who Won’t Have to Drive to Work (VBX)
Suburbs Brace for Growth as Latest Section of Grand Parkway Officially Opens (Houston Chronicle)
What Houston Can Do to Make Bike-Share Feel Safer (Urban Edge)

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Today’s Headlines

By Caitlin McNeely | Feb 5, 2016 | No Comments

Pretty Soon You Can Ride METRO With Your Smartphone (Houston Chronicle)
Post a Video for BikeHouston‘s “Why I Bike Houston” Campaign
Join the Shoal Creek Forum to Discuss Downtown Flooding in Austin
New Coffee Shop Sets the Stage for a More Walkable Victory Park (Guidelive)
Creative Culture Breathing Life Into This Weird Old Mall Where Dallas Midtown Will Go (Observer)
UT West Campus Bus System Needs Reinvestment to Serve Student Demand (Daily Texan)
HUD’s Reluctance to Build Near Highways Stopped Mixed-Income Housing in Dallas (Morning News)
100,000 Sq-Foot Pedestrian Zone + Cafes, Retail, Art in Front of George R. Brown Convention (Houston Chronicle)
Check Out Gensler’s Mixed-Use Mixed-Income Plan to Connect to Buffalo Bayou Park (Houston Chronicle)
Job Posting: Senior Planner for City of Galveston

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Which Cities Are Adding Walkable Housing the Fastest?

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 4, 2016 | No Comments

Since 1970, most American metros have seen walkable housing decline as a share of total housing. Chart: Kasey Klimes As more Americans look for walkable places to live, cities are struggling to deliver, and a lot of neighborhoods are becoming less affordable. A new analysis by Kasey Klimes of Copenhagen’s Gehl Studio illustrates how major metro areas have let their [...]

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Austin: The Most Bike-Friendly City in Texas

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Feb 3, 2016 | No Comments

I was in Austin a few months ago for the NACTO Designing Cities Conference. While in town I was able to put together this look at what the city is doing to improve bicycling, including the dazzling 3rd Street curb-protected bikeway. Also captured on camera: many bike paths along the Pedernales River, car-free nights on 6th street, and the ridiculously long [...]

Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Feb 3, 2016 | No Comments

Harris County Judge Ed Emmett Proposes Bypass Around Entire Houston Region for I-69 (Houston Public Media)
Plano Residents Suing City to Oppose Planning That Threatens Sub-urban Character with Apartments (Morning News)
Poll: Does Dallas Need to Pay Down Debt Before Fixing Roads? (D Magazine)
Hundreds of People Have Been Parking in a Crumbling, Abandoned Garage in Dallas (WFAA)
Inner City Houston Neighborhood No. 13 in US for Affordable Homes, Good Schools, and Walkability (BizJournals)
Houstonians Going For It and Buying Micro Units in New East End Development (BizJournals)

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Everyone Gets a Prize

By Patrick Kennedy | Feb 2, 2016 | No Comments

There are two articles worth your time today, likely more but who has time for all that. That is, give them a full read when you’re finished unsubscribing from all of the presidential candidate email lists, who all apparently won Iowa last night. I shouldn’t say that, because you’ll never read them. A Sisyphean task […]

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