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By Caitlin McNeely | Jan 5, 2016 | No Comments

Dallas’s $40 Million Band-Aid May Keep Streets From Getting Worse, But Won’t Design Them Better (Morning News)
Smart Growth, Making Streets Safe For Active Living on List of Priorities for San Antonio Council Member Shirley Gonzalez in 2016 (Rivard Report)
Real Estate Economist on Why Living in Mixed-Use Projects Is Taking Off in Houston (HBJ)
SA River Drained: Good Time to Go For a Riverwalk and Hunt for Treasure (Morning News)
Major U.S. DOT Study Emphasizes Need For More Transit, Biking, Walking (MobilityLab)
Austin Energy Chief Says Apartments Should Get a New Utility Rate Since They Are Cheaper to Service Than Single Family Homes (Statesman)
Aldine ISD School Bus Involved in Crash With Two Other Vehicles in North Harris County (Click2Houston)
Austin Taxi Drivers Join Cooperation Texas to Form Unionized, Worker-Owned Taxi Co-op to Make Industry Just and Sustainable
Awesome Graph Shows Success of METRO’s New Bus Network (@Christofspieler)

Ridership on the Upswing After Houston’s Bus Network Redesign

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 4, 2016 | No Comments

Houston’s bus map before and after a thorough system overhaul. In August, Houston debuted its new bus network, reconfigured to increase frequent service, expand weekend hours, and improve access to jobs. The implementation was contentious at times, and when we last checked in on the results — two months after the changes took effect — bus ridership was down 4 percent overall but [...]

Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Jan 4, 2016 | No Comments

Darnit: Plan for Mixed Use Density at South Lamar and Lady Bird Lake Scrapped for Drivable Fast Food (ATX Urbanists)
Mayor Sylvester Turner Promises Affordable Housing Plan to Allow Greater Share of Growth in City
Dallas CM Griggs: Affordable Housing Should Be Close to Transit (Morning News)
Register for the H-GAC Bringing Back Main Street Event on Downtown Revitalization, January 14
Dallas Morning News Hopes Construction Begins on Houston-Dallas High Speed Rail in 2016
Fill Out Greenway Plaza Survey About Improving Walking and Biking in the Activity Center
Register for the Texas Trails and Active Transportation Conference, March 9 – 11 in Houston
Harris County Judge Ed Emmett Suggests County May End Inequitable Sub-Urban Road Welfare Policy (@HoustonTomorrow)

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Today’s Headlines

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Dec 23, 2015 | No Comments

Austinites: Take the Capital Metro Connections 2025 Survey
Here’s What the Texas Tribune Thinks Are the Top Texas Transportation Stories of 2015
Neighborhood Denied a Walkable Drug Store in Dallas Because Zoning (Morning News)
Oracle Building on 27 Acres Outside Austin, Same Space as 1.27 Acre Frost Tower (BizJournals)
Austin Chronicle Reminds Everyone that Uber and Lyft Are Giant Corporations
Austin Installing Lots of Affordable Units in Unaffordable Location (BizJournals)
Is Houston the Next Great Transit City? (Claudia Preciado)
TXDOT Gives City of Early $492,226 for Sidewalks to Schools and Bike Lanes (Brownwood Bulletin)
- Equivalent Per Capita Investment in the City of Houston Would Be $385 Million
Rabbit Transit Switching to CNG Power for Fleet of 89 Buses (EaglefordTexas.com)
Happy Holidays and Have a Wonderful New Year, Everybody. See You in 2016!
Please Consider Contributing to These Texas Allies of Great Streets This Season:

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Vote for the Best Urban Street Transformation of 2015

By Angie Schmitt and Ben Fried | Dec 22, 2015 | No Comments

It’s almost time to say goodbye to 2015, which means we’re about to hand out Streetsies to recognize achievements for walking, biking, and transit in American cities this year. Earlier this month we asked readers for nominations for the Best Urban Street Transformation of the year, and here are the standouts from your submissions. It’s a great batch and all [...]

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By Caitlin McNeely | Dec 22, 2015 | No Comments

How to Turn Northwest Highway Into a Neighborhood Main Street (PrestonHollowPeople)
New November METRO Ridership Numbers Show Significant Gain
Pickup Driver Strikes and Kills Bicyclist This Morning in South Austin (Statesman)
Driver Killed Pedestrian Last Night in Bexar County (FOX29)
Transportation: The Next Civil Rights Issue of Our Time (Washington Post)
Besides Slowing Sprawl and Speeding Urban Core Development, Improving Schools Key to SA Economic Development (Rivard Report)
See the Terrifying Amounts of Parking in Grand Parkway Spring Town Center Plans (Swamplot)
State-of-the-Art Hines Tower Attracts Top Talent Tenant to Downtown Houston (Houston Chron)
What Austin City Council Achieved and Postponed on Lyft and Uber Regulations (Austin Chron)

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Carseats and the Limitations of American Safety Culture

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 21, 2015 | No Comments

One lesson they really hammer home, when you’re a new parent, is the importance of carseats. Alarming articles about carseat failures are part of the territory for new parents. Image: Today Hospitals won’t let you take a newborn home from the hospital unless you can show you have a carseat. And they warn you of this fact [...]

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By Jay Blazek Crossley | Dec 21, 2015 | No Comments

Downtown Houston Hotel Plans to Tear Down Two 100-Yr-Old Buildings for Parking (Houston Chron)
Survey: How Is Austin’s New City Council Doing One Year In? (Austin Business Journal)
Thankfully Houston Metro Now Involved in Study for Connecting HSR to Downtown (Houston Chron)
Is It Wrong to Argue Austin Is Trading Women’s Safety for More Drunk Driving? (Houston Chron)
Newly Elected Louisiana Governor Promises Baton Rouge-New Orleans Light Rail (NOLA.com)
Fort Worth TEX Commuter Rail on Track With Union Pacific/Amtrak/DART (Progressive Railroading)
Wear: Making Sense of a Big Week in Central Texas Transportation (Austin American Statesman)
Port Arthur Might Fix Hotel Sabine, Rather Than Blowing Up 100-Yr-Old Bldg as Prop (Ledger-Enquirer)

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By Jay Blazek Crossley | Dec 18, 2015 | No Comments

Surprisingly, All White TX Transpo Commission Chooses White Man for New TXDOT ED (Texas Tribune)
City of Socorro Mounts Cameras on School Buses to Ticket People Who Pass Illegally (El Paso Times)
Did Threat of Moving Texas Rangers to Dallas Force City of Arlington Incentives? (Dallas Observer)
Fourteen of Houston Metro’s Rail Cars Out of Service With Wheel Problem, Possibly More (Houston Chron)
CycloBia Tonight in Brownsville 6 – 9 pm
Apply to Be in Houston Metro Beta Test of Smart Phone Ticketing
MPD Connect Allows Users to Directly Contact Houston Metro Police With Smart Phone App
SA Tomorrow Hosting Virtual Town Hall Meetings (Rivard Report)

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Lobbyist Holds Up Spectacular Example of the Futility of Widening Highways

By Joe Cortright | Dec 17, 2015 | No Comments

Crossposted from City Observatory. Here’s a highway success story, as told by the folks who build highways. Several years ago, the Katy Freeway in Houston was a major traffic bottleneck. It was so bad that in 2004 the American Highway Users Alliance (AHUA) called one of its interchanges the second worst bottleneck in the nation wasting 25 [...]

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By Caitlin McNeely | Dec 17, 2015 | No Comments

DART Will Hold 2 Public Meetings Today to Discuss Routes for New Downtown Line (Morning News)
San Pedro Creek Linear Park Project Pitched for 2017 San Antonio City Bond (Rivard Report)
$2.8 Billion Spent to Expand Katy Freeway and Congestion Increased (City Observatory)
When ‘Vision Zero’ Conflicts With Local Politics… and Someone’s Death Could Have Been Prevented (Planetizen)
Easy Regulations Luring Self-Driving Cars to Texas in Light of California Crackdown (SA Express)
Austin Population Passes 2 Million, Experts Say Building More Roads Is Not Enough (Culturemap)
Houston Considering Bringing HEB to Third Ward/Midtown Food Desert (Chron)
Incentives Approved for New Transit-Oriented Concert Venue Mixed-Use Development (Houston Chronicle)
So They Think Elevated Lanes Will Reduce Congestion on 610, I Guess They Haven’t Seen the Katy Freeway (Houston Chronicle)

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CITY VS. SPRAWL: A Study in Impervious Cover

By Carrie Gammell | Dec 16, 2015 | No Comments

During the final Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) reading, Council Members Ora Houston (D-1), Ann Kitchen (D-5), and Leslie Pool (D-7), led by Kathie Tovo (D-9), cited impervious cover and the supposed resultant flooding as demonstrative reasons why we should not add housing in Austin’s urban core. The same argument has been used by neighborhood NIMBYs to decry new […]

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