[Archive] You have until March 7, 2023 at midnight to submit comments on I35. We made it easy.

This post is from March 2023 and this opportunity is no longer active. The Texas Department of Transportation released the draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for I-35 in the center of Austin. This includes their proposal for fixing the broken I-35 corridor through the most valuable and most dense activity center in the Austin region, and their logic for the …

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 …