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Megan Kimble
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Megan Kimble
@megankimble
Texas political economy reporter @HoustonChron. Stories @nytimes @citylab @texasmonthly. Author of CITY LIMITS @CrownPublishing. Professionally curious.
- on-road emissions in Texas account for 0.48% of total worldwide greenhouse gas emissionsHappy Earth Day! 🌎 Did you know TxDOT uses recycled crushed concrete in pavement? Check out this project to see how TxDOT and UT researchers are improving sustainability by using more recycled material. #EarthDay
00:00 - 🧵I spent days going through every deed of purchase that the Texas Highway Department made in the 1950s and 1960s as it assembled land to build Interstate 345 through Deep Ellum in downtown Dallas. 1/
- Standing in line, in the rain, to early vote in Austin and listening again to the last episode of @jonfavs’s The Wilderness. @BarackObama offers the best defense of voting I’ve heard yet. Here’s to making it better.
- well, this is crazy: two researchers looked at the effectiveness of highway death toll message boards and found that they actually INCREASED the number of traffic crashes on Texas roads. full study here, in @ScienceMagazine: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
- I’ve been working on this story for nearly a year and I am so excited to share it. For the @nytimes, I wrote about infrastructure and gentrification in a D.C. neighborhood.
- “The zoning system is rigged. People think it’s rigged toward developers, but I actually think it’s rigged toward ... single-family homeowners. Those folks have more rights, both politically and legally, to stop or change the request.”
- Title insurance is, according to one real estate developer, “a total scam.” Yet because mortgage lenders require it for virtually every home purchase, title insurance companies are raking in billions of dollars. Read @sethharpesq in @TexasObserver
- I wrote this!Widening freeways doesn't fix traffic. Texas does it anyway. | Opinion trib.al/39ZDY8c
- The Texas Department of Transportation plans to spend $25 billion widening highways to fix traffic in Texas cities. What if we tore them down instead? I wrote about @TxDOT's highway prophecy for @TexasObserver & @thenation:
- OK my read on this is TxDOT felt the need to publish some I-35 propaganda which means activism is workingTexas has one of the world’s largest economies, and much of that success can be attributed to one road. #TxDOTNewsroom ow.ly/oZKY50Rje1W
