Tuesday ·
It's Election Day: polls open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Good morning, Austin.
The Briefing
It's Election Day: polls open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Polls are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. today, Tuesday, Nov. 3, and Travis County voters can vote at any county polling site. CapMetro is running fare-free all day on Bus, Rail, Access and Pickup, the city says, and Bikeshare riders get 60 free minutes by picking the "I Voted!" pass in the app; bikes have to be back at a station within 60 minutes to avoid overage charges.
The city says more than 90 Travis County polling sites are within a five-minute walk of a CapMetro stop. After polls close, the county posts results on its election results site.
You can check your registration and see your personal ballot with the county's voter lookup, and the county's election page has a wait-times section. Voter lookup
What's next: Polls close at 7 p.m.
Sources: Vote Travis: current election · Election Day sites (PDF) · Voter lookup · Austin Mobility News, Nov. 2 · Travis County election results · Live turnout tracker
City Desk
Public safety & courts
Austin traffic deaths are running 9 below last year's pace
Austin police say a pedestrian hit by a vehicle on Burleson Road on Friday night, Oct. 30, died at a hospital on Oct. 31. Police count it as the city's 74th fatal crash of 2026, with 76 people killed. On the same date in 2025, police say, 81 fatal crashes had killed 85 people, so this year is 9 deaths (about 11%) and 7 fatal crashes behind last year's count.
The driver stayed at the scene and is cooperating, police said; the pedestrian has not been identified. Police say the figures are from an initial assessment and may change.
Bulletin calculation from APD's Nov. 2 releaseGrowth & infrastructure
$8.9 million federal award to buy development rights on Central Texas farms
The Conservation Fund, working with the City of Austin and the Central Texas Food Bank, has been awarded $8,913,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Regional Conservation Partnership Program, the city says. The money will buy conservation easements from farmers, so they keep and keep farming their land while it's permanently protected from development. The project area covers 16 counties, including much of the Blackland Prairie. City of Austin release
Barton Springs Road Bridge open house is Nov. 16
The city is replacing the 100-plus-year-old Barton Springs Road Bridge and will show the latest plans at an open house from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 16, at the Dougherty Arts Center, 1110 Barton Springs Road. Planned changes include two travel lanes each way, wider sidewalks, dedicated bike lanes and wider trails under the bridge. The project is in design, and its federal environmental review is underway. Austin Mobility News, Nov. 2
City Hall & county
Austin Public Health updates its opioid overdose dashboard
Austin Public Health has posted an updated dashboard with Austin and Travis County data on fatal and non-fatal opioid overdoses, overdose emergency room (ER) visits and hospitalizations, and naloxone distribution by agency. City of Austin release · Opioid overdose dashboard
The Back Page
Polls are open today, Nov. 3, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
One Good Thing: CapMetro is running fare-free all day on Bus, Rail, Access and Pickup. Austin Mobility News, Nov. 2