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  Four Ways to Curb Cycling Dangers in Houston

  March 20 at 4 a.m.

  Another cyclist — this time, 23-year-old David Loya — has been killed on Houston streets. Loya was struck by a school bus while riding in the protected bike lane on Heights Boulevard. This was not a case of a careless cyclist weaving into traffic or driving on a busy street...

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  Three Places Where Congestion Pricing Could Work in Houston

  February 28 at 4 a.m.

  Normally, Houston don't spend too much time worrying about the politics in New York City. In many ways, our two cities couldn't be more different in how we approach our lives and, of course, the layouts of the two metropolises are essentially the polar opposite of one another. But a...

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  Going to Memorial Park to See Some Trail Riders? Don't Take the West Loop

  February 21 at 4 a.m.

  God knows we Houstonians love us some trail riders. Maybe it's the horses or the smiling and waving people. Maybe we just like to imagine how interesting life on the trail might be for us city folk. Then we remember dysentery and no cell phones, and we go back to...

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  Carmageddon Again This Weekend on Houston Area Freeways

  February 1 at 4 a.m.

  When you think about major traffic on Houston's freeways, there are a few spots that always seem to come to mind. Two of the absolute worst are a pair of interchanges: I-45/I-69/288 and 610/I-69. They have always been mind-numbingly catastrophic. One, a tangled mess of merging lanes going seemingly every...

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  Five Ways METRO Can Improve Transit Through Rail

  January 28 at 5:30 a.m.

  METRO has been working on a long-term $7.5 billion plan that will re-shape transit in the Houston area over the next 20 years and it is asking for the input of Houstonians. Funny they should ask, because we've been talking about this sort of thing for quite some time. In...

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  Houston Highway Construction At DEFCON 1 This Weekend

  January 25 at 5 a.m.

  Strap yourselves in drivers. On second thought, don't strap yourselves in. Stay at home. Ride a bike. Take a walk. If you do have to drive, assume every freeway in Houston is filled with mutant zombies hell bent on eating your brains. May as well be considering the level of...