Livability News

Houston

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  Local elementary school encourages active transportation

  Walk-Bike-Scoot to School Day

  Matt Dietrichson, May 21, 13.

  Briargrove Elementary School in west Houston is encouraging students and parents to make a conscious effort to walk, bike, or scoot to school every Friday.

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  Mysterious oil spill washes up on Galveston beaches

  Source unknown

  Matt Dietrichson, May 21, 13.

  A mile and a half of beaches in West Galveston were lightly damaged from an oil spill that officials say could have come from an offshore ship.

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  Metro to bring back articulated buses

  With bend in middle

  Matt Dietrichson, May 21, 13.

  With hopes of helping overcrowding issues, Metro is bringing 60-foot articulated buses back to the streets of Houston.

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Megaregion

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  Local review requirement for developments gets axed in Texas House

  At the urging of Gov. Perry

  Matt Dietrichson, May 21, 13.

  The Texas House has killed a provision that would have required public-private development projects on state land to go through local zoning.

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  Austin urban rail plan could go to voters in 2014

  Mayor announces

  Matt Dietrichson, May 16, 13.

  With help from an ad-hoc Transit Working Group, the City of Austin may have a finished urban rail plan by February of next year.

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  New bill to protect TxDOT workers

  Drivers must move over

  Matt Dietrichson, May 15, 13.

  Texas Governor Rick Perry has signed a bill that will require drivers to slow down and move over for Texas Department of Transportation vehicles.

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Beyond

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  The most bikeable neighborhoods in the US

  Western cities score high, May 21, 13.

  Using data provided by the organization Walk Score, The Atlantic Cities has ranked the top 25 American neighborhoods by bikeability.

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  Breathing auto emissions can cause bad cholesterol

  Changes HDL from good to bad

  Matt Dietrichson, May 16, 13.

  New research has found that breathing motor vehicle emissions causes a change in high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol so that it to clogs arteries.

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  Senate passes water infrastructure bill

  Environmentalists not happy

  Matt Dietrichson, May 16, 13.

  Though not unanimously approved by environmentalists, a bill funding a wide range of US water infrastructure projects received bipartisan support in the Senate.

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