Author: Jay Blazek Crossley

Farm&City comments on item 45 – Calling for meaningful climate and air quality analysis of the proposal to fix I-35

TxDOT’s refusal to use an equitable scenario planning process with alternative reasonable future growth forecasts renders their “No Build” analysis meaningless in the climate emissions, air quality, and traffic modeling analysis.

Hello Mayor Watson and Council Members, Thanks so much for your consideration of Item 45, seeking to improve the climate emissions reduction and air quality improvement strategies of the plan to fix I-35 and rebuild the historic urban street grid. Farm&City is a tiny nonprofit and we don’t have funding to do this particular work, so I’m sorry to report …

2022: The year in Farm&City media hits

A significant part of our policy change strategy involves educating the public and leaders through engagement with public dialogue in the media. We change stories and framing to yield a paradigm that allows for rapid improvements in the quality of life of all Texans. We track when a Farm&City staff member or volunteer speak with a reporter, are quoted, and …

Prepared Remarks: Tools available to reduce the unprecedented increase in fatalities on Texas roads

A nice room at the UT RGV Brownsville campus set up for a hearing of the Texas House Committee on Transportation. The committee is to the right chaired by Terry Canales and the crowd is to the left, with TxDOT CEO Marc Williams sitting at the witness table facing the committee.

Jay Blazek CrossleyExecutive DirectorFarm&City Prepared Comments: Invited Testimony Texas House Committee on Transportation, September 8, 2022 HearingUT Rio Grande Valley Brownsville CampusBrownsville, Texas Hello Chair Canales and members. Thank you for your service to the people of Texas and for this discussion on the rolling crisis of traffic deaths and serious injuries. My name is Jay Blazek Crossley, Executive Director …