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‘Secretary Pete Can’t Save You’: FHWA OKs Houston Highway Expansion After Pause
One of America's most infamous highway expansion projects is steamrolling ahead after a civil rights lawsuit brought it to a two-year pause — and experts say it’s unlikely to be stopped again unless...
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What It Takes To Successfully Sue Over a Defective Bike Lane
For a person in a car, rolling over a shallow three-inch gap in the surface of the roadway probably won’t feel like anything at all. For cyclists though, that’s just the right size to grab onto a thin...
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Visit Your Nearest National Park(ing Lot) Today!
Planning a summer vacation? Sure, you could check out one of America’s 424 stunning national parks … or you could skip all those boring trees and and animals and visit one of America’s internationally...
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Opinion: Massacres in Texas — One With a Car, One With a Gun — Reveal Two...
In the space of less than 17 hours, American news outlets this weekend exploded with headlines about two separate but eerily similar mass killings in Texas. Both assailants killed eight people each,...
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Every Growing City Should Heed Austin’s New Parking Law
One of America’s fastest-growing cities has eliminated parking minimums citywide, sending a clear message that a flood of new residents doesn’t have to be followed by a flood new asphalt. On May 4, the...
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How One City Used Transit to Cut Traffic During a Taylor Swift Mega-Concert
This article is brought to you in part by the National Youth Transportation Equity Convening. Learn more and register here. They knew she was trouble when she walked in. U.S. cities that invested in...
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What Will It Take to Build a Bullet Train in Texas?
For more than a decade, a private company called Texas Central has been promising, and struggling, to build a high-speed rail line between Dallas and Houston, two of the state’s largest cities. By...
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The I-35 Expansion in Austin, Texas Shows Why States Should Never Control...
The Austin, Texas region is growing rapidly. Since 2000, the metropolitan area’s population nearly doubled to 2.4 million people, and another 1.2 million residents are expected by 2040. The...
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The Nation’s Biggest Anti-Highway Rally In History Is Happening in Texas This...
In August 2022, I met freeway fighters from all across Texas at the State Highway Building in downtown Austin. It was the day the Texas Transportation Commission would vote on their budget for 10...
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Austin Becomes The Largest U.S. City to Eliminate Parking Minimums
Parking — you’re banished from the Austin city limits. Thanks to an 8-2 Council vote on Thursday, the mandatory installation of parking will become a thing of the past at virtually all new...
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Highway Boondoggles 2023: Pandering in the Panhandle
This article is a part of our annual Highway Boondoggles series in partnership with U.S. Public Interest Research Group. Click here to read the other articles in the series as they are published. I-10...
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States, We Need Your Vision to Get to ‘Zero’
A version of this article originally appeared on Vision Zero Network. Read the original here. As local, regional and tribal communities in the U.S. commit to Vision Zero in record numbers, the...
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‘We Don’t Need These Highways’: Author Megan Kimble on Texas’ Ongoing Freeway...
In cities across America, U.S. advocates are fighting to stop their DOTs from expanding downtown highways and amplifying the mistakes of the past. As the saying goes, though, those battles are always...
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Across the country, grassroots advocates are fighting a David-and-Goliath-style battle against massive, powerful departments of transportation who are attempting to widen highways in their...
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How Boomtown Austin is Thinking Beyond Highways
Editor’s note: this article is an excerpt from the Vision Zero Cities Journal and is republished with permission. For more information on the Vision Zero Cities 2024 conference, click here. The City...
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A carveout in federal law grants seven states authority to conduct their own environmental assessments on transportation projects. Texas abuses that power, advocates say.
View ArticleHow the 17th-Century ‘Mews’ Could Make 21st-Century Suburbs More Walkable
A new development in Texas is repurposing an old idea to make constant driving optional.
View ArticleCan We Build Car-Light Neighborhoods From Scratch — Even in Texas?
Can you really build a car-light neighborhood in suburban Houston — and could it inspire car-dependent places to explore new ideas about development?
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