Policy Hacking with Farm&City is a monthly online meetup for people fixing Texas public policy. This month is the second in a two part series looking at how TXDOT and our regional governments – (Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) – plan for our future, and how we could improve the Texas transportation decision making system with Scenario Planning. This month heard …
Every year, Farm&City works with Central Texas Families for Safe Streets and other partners to host the annual World Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Traffic Violence in Austin on the third Sunday in November. This year, we cannot gather at the Capitol, but people are still dying and being hurt on Texas streets, so we will hold a …
The Houston – Galveston Area Council’s (HGAC) Transportation Policy Council (TPC) voted unanimously to adopt a resolution establishing a goal to end traffic deaths in the 8-county Houston region by 2050. In recent history, about 600 families have lost a loved one to traffic deaths in the Houston region, and another almost 3,000 people have suffered live changing serious injuries, …