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Texas DOT Seems Open to a Downtown Dallas Highway Removal
TxDOT shows just how much land could be freed up by tearing down Interstate 345 in Dallas. Image: CityMAP/TxDOT Will Texas embrace a model of mobility that works well for cities, instead of tearing...
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The Hilarious 1960s Vision for the Underbelly of a Houston Highway
Dapper guys in suits and mod ladies hang out under a Houston highway in this concept the Houston Arts Commission envisioned for the Pierce Elevated Freeway in the 1960s. Image by Houston Arts...
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El Paso’s Bid to Create a Regional Active Transportation Network
A lot of regional transportation agencies talk a good game when it comes to improving biking and walking, but El Paso’s Metropolitan Planning Organization is actually doing something about it. The El...
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What Killed Eduardo Dill: ‘Failure to Yield Right of Way’ or Awful Streets?
Wide lanes, lack of medians, wide corners, and wide open views all tend to encourage people to drive faster through the El Paso neighborhood where Eduardo Dill was killed. Tragedy struck El Paso again...
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A “Dutch Junction” With Glow-in-the-Dark Bike Lanes Now Exists — in Texas
The Texas Transportation Institute built this Dutch Junction on the Texas A&M campus in College Station. Photo: TTI It’s America’s first unsignalized “Dutch Junction” — a type of intersection with...
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Private Toll Road Backed By $430 Million in Federal Funds Goes Bust
From the beginning, there were plenty of reasons to suspect that Texas 130 — a private toll road between San Antonio and Austin — was a bad idea. Photo: Flickr/Ken Lund For one thing, the state of...
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Hero Mom Fined By Police for Vigilante Traffic Calming
Frustrated with speeding drivers on her street, San Antonio mom Kristi Flanagan posted a homemade sign that said “Drive like your kids live here.” But motorists ignored it. So Flanagan stood outside...
View ArticleCities Want to Save Lives With Lower Speed Limits, But States Stand in the Way
Austin’s City Council voted this week to lower speed limits on residential streets from 30 mph to 25. In doing so, the city joins a growing number of cities moving to save lives by reducing default...
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The Human Toll of Normalizing Distracted Driving
By now, everyone knows that driving while distracted by a mobile device is dangerous — but that doesn’t stop people from doing it. Recent data gleaned from drivers’ smartphones by the company Zendrive...
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El Paso’s Suburbs Are Getting Sidewalks and Local TV News Talked to...
Hard to believe, but “controversial” sidewalks are a thing. Usually the controversy involves single-family home owners who don’t want to live in a place where people walk past their homes. The conflict...
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Downtown Austin’s Parking Crunch Can Be Solved Without Adding Tons of Parking
Cities and towns are constantly fretting about downtown parking. But what they often perceive as a “parking shortage” isn’t caused by a lack of parking — it’s the result of poor management of the...
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How Houston’s Sprawl Makes It Harder to Cope With Storms Like Harvey
Hurricane Harvey has dropped more than 20 inches of rain on Houston, and the scenes from the city are devastating. Emergency crews carrying children through waist-deep water out of flooded homes....
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Texas DOT Aims for More People to Get Killed in Traffic
It’s no longer acceptable for American transportation agencies to ignore their responsibility to reduce traffic fatalities. Even a titan of the transportation establishment like the Federal Highway...
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Highway Boondoggles: LBJ East Expansion in Dallas, Texas
In their fourth Highway Boondoggles report, U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group profile wasteful highway projects that state DOTs are building across the country. Today we highlight the LBJ East Expansion...
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Is Subprime Auto Lending the Next Housing Bubble?
America’s pro-car transportation policies are exerting crushing costs on low-income people — and may be slowing down the overall economy, a new report shows. Auto loan rates are soaring, particularly...
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States May Forfeit $1 Billion in Biking and Walking Funding
States across the country are at risk of forfeiting up to $1 billion in funding for sidewalk construction, bike trails or other important safety projects — if they don’t use all the federal cash by...
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Beto O’Rourke Rode a Bike And the Internet Exploded
Add cyclists to the latest group that is going all dewy-eyed for Beto O’Rourke. The junior Congressman who almost defeated Ted Cruz for a Texas Senate seat — and will soon announce whether he wants to...
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Texas, Where 10 People Are Killed on Roads Every Day, Commits to Vision Zero
Texas, long a laggard in traffic safety, is now under order to end traffic deaths by 2050. The Texas Transportation Commission has mandated that [PDF] the state’s Department of Transportation “work...
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Houston Has a Rail Solution to Traffic
America’s fourth largest city could take a giant leap for mass transit — as long as Houston voters don’t muck it up. Houston’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, or METRO, is nearly done compiling its...
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More People Will Die as a Result of Texas’ Red Light Camera Ban
We can expect more dead people on Texas roads, thanks to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who signed a bill last week banning red light cameras. Time and time again, injuries and deaths have increased in cities...
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