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 fix TxDOT’s plan to defund …
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An equitable, safe, green, accessible future for Texas
We have launched a monthly MeetUp, generously hosted by Capital Factory in Downtown Austin, to foster complex conversations about the future of Texas. The events are free and open to the public and happen every first Thursday of the month from 6 – 8pm on the 16th Floor at 701 Brazos Street. The inaugural event in August included a presentation …
The Case for Transit Funding in Texas
If you’re reading this in a major Texas metro, you are currently experiencing about 1/3 the transit funding than you would experience in the other largest major US metros. There is less bus frequency, less places you can get to by transit, less high quality rapid transit options, less fiscally productive real estate investment, and more people having to drive …