Author: Jay Blazek Crossley

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 …

Prepared Remarks: Issues related to affordable housing, homelessness, and methods of providing and financing affordable housing

image from airplane of single family neighborhood in Brownsville

A September routine interim charge hearing of the Texas Senate Committee on Local Government turned out to be a packed room, with an overflow room almost full as well. People came out to talk about the affordability problems across our state, including those representing Big A Affordable Housing providers, those representing developers and home builders, and environmental, justice, and affordability …

How much could the Texas Transportation Commission allocate to transit, safety, active transportation, and ADA in the 2023 UTP?

The public comment phase is open for the Texas Department of Transportation’s (TxDOT) 2023 Unified Transportation Program (UTP), and the Texas Transportation Commission (TPC) needs to hear from you about what you hope they can achieve with $117 billion in public spending over the next ten years ($85 billion in proposed projects and $32 billion in project development costs). Find …