Farm&City is a think and do tank dedicated to high quality urban & rural human habitat in perpetuity. We fill the void in Texas public policy between left and right on a suite of issues left substantially untended at the intersections of equity, sustainability, land use, and transportation. In our experience of Texas public policy change, we find gridlock on many issues where no one seems to be able to ask the right questions and probe the right data to be able to find available and viable paths forward that will actually improve people’s lives.Our greatest successes of the first seven years have been at TxDOT headquarters and the City of Austin.As we proposed, the Texas Department of Transportation adopted a safe systems approach, established the Road to Zero goal to end traffic deaths statewide by 2050 and cut them in half by 2035, and doubled dedicated transportation safety funding, adding $300 million a year. It is currently reasonable to assume that this elevated level of safety spending could continue in perpetuity. As of today, the Texas Transportation Commission has shifted $1.85 billion additional dollars to dedicated safety spending on the Road to Zero.At the City Of Austin, we worked with diverse partners to push through a comprehensive speed management strategy, speed limit reduction citywide, a growing safe, multimodal funding strategy culminating in an over $500 million safe multimodal bond in 2020 and the $7.5 billion project connect vote to build light rail, rapid bus, bus, and walkable and bike access to transit.