Month: February 2012

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bookface

metablog
A page for the crackplog on the bookface. Because let it never be said I didn’t copy ideas from the other members of the urban-development-echo-chamber,…
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Yes, Austin, You Can Trust M1EK

I Told You So Rapid Bus Ain't Rapid
Statesman, over the weekend: Capital Metro’s long-anticipated, $47.6 million rapid bus project, designed to carry more passengers faster than existing bus lines along two busy…
Austin Capital Metro horrible ideas Rapid [sic] Bus todd hemingson
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Red Line weekend debate, in pictures

Austin Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want Economics Funding of Transportation Transit in Austin Transportation
WHEREAS most riders of existing Red Line service are likely not residents of the City of Austin and the majority likely don’t even reside in…
Austin bad economics bad financial decisions Capital Metro hackedunfixed horrible ideas operating subsidies proving the obvious Red Line subsidizing suburbanites subsidizing the suburbanites suburban freeloaders weekend MetroRail weekend Red Line weekend Red Line service
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Write the City Council on Red Line weekend subsidy

Austin Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want Economics Funding of Transportation PS: I am not a crackpot Red Line Myths Transit in Austin Transportation
WHEREAS most riders of existing Red Line service are likely not residents of the City of Austin and the majority likely don’t even reside in…
Austin bad economics bad financial decisions Capital Metro hackedunfixed horrible ideas operating subsidies Red Line subsidizing suburbanites subsidizing the suburbanites suburban freeloaders weekend MetroRail weekend Red Line weekend Red Line service
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Oppose City Funding Of Additional Red Line Service

Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want Funding of Transportation PS: I am not a crackpot Transit in Austin Transportation
WHEREAS most riders of existing Red Line service are likely not residents of the City of Austin and the majority likely don’t even reside in…
bad economics bad financial decisions hackedunfixed horrible ideas operating subsidies Red Line subsidizing suburbanites suburban freeloaders weekend MetroRail weekend Red Line service
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Who is riding the Red Line, Part Two

Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want Economics I Told You So Transit in Austin Transportation
Here’s a summary chart showing the data from Capital Metro from October 2011; showing how many people board from each station in the AM peak,…
bad drawings proving the obvious Red Line suburban freeloaders
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How much are we subsidizing passengers on the Red Line now?

Austin Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want I Told You So Red Line Myths Transit in Austin
Erica McKewen from Capital Metro let me know that one of the most recent monthly reports does, finally, have the subsidy information available for the…
operating subsidies Red Line
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Who is riding the Red Line?

Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want Economics Funding of Transportation
Well, we don’t know who, but we do know how many are getting on at each station. Thanks to Erica McKewen at Capital Metro for…
bad economics Red Line weekend MetroRail weekend Red Line
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