On Friday, April 23, 2021, the Texas House of Representatives passed HB 3325, the Crash Not Accident bill, to replace every instance of the word “accident” in the Texas Transportation Code with the more appropriate word “crash.” The bill, filed by State Representative J.M. Lozano, has a companion in the Texas Senate, SB 1945, filed by Senator Eddie Lucio Jr. …
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. Many in the transportation engineering …
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 …