Texas continues to lead the nation in traffic deaths, with traffic deaths actually increasing in 2020, even though Texans were driving significantly less last year than the year before. Many believe that our high rates of traffic deaths have a lot to do with dangerous speeds that many Texans use when driving cars and trucks. …
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Big things are happening all across Texas, and that’s true here at Farm&City as well where we’ve just welcomed aboard our new Deputy Director, Scott White. Scott joins us after serving several years as the Policy Director for Velo Paso Bicycle-Pedestrian Coalition in El Paso. During his time there, he’s led a successful effort to …
The Austin region is home to about two million people, expected to grow to at least four million people before the global human population stabilizes some time in the middle of the 21st Century. The major decisions on how to plan for that growth and provide safe, multimodal access to the people of the region …
Read more “The inequity of Austin’s CAMPO – and the current proposal to make it worse”