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Austin Parking Reform Coalition has formed to remove un-affordable parking mandates

by Jay Blazek Crossley50 Million Texans November 29, 2021October 4, 2022No Comments

UPDATE: You can now visit the new Austin Parking Coalition website at http://www.atxparkingreform.org/ As the high affordability, environmental, and traffic costs of excessive parking has become widely apparent, the outdated practice of minimum parking requirements is being overturned across the country, with the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations publishing policy papers calling for the removal …

Support HB 4515 so local communities can propose alternatives for TXDOT projects

by Scott White50 Million Texans April 17, 2021May 28, 2021No Comments

ACTION ALERTTell your state Representative to support and co-author HB 4515 Most major Texas cities have now taken positions in support of meaningful alternatives for major freeway projects proposed by TxDOT, but TxDOT has not fully incorporated any of these meaningful alternative proposals to be considered in an Environmental Assessment process. The City of Houston …

Policy Hacking with Farm&City, and Todd & Tony

by Scott White50 Million Texans March 18, 2021May 28, 2021No Comments

No fooling, you won’t want to miss this one! For our special April 1st Policy Hacking we’ll be talking about transportation funding, and how we can hack the system for better, more equitable, sustainable transportation systems. Our experts this month are two rock stars of the transportation policy hacking world: Tony Dutzik and Todd Litman. …