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Project Connect and Capital Metro need to answer some serious questions, right now

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In the last several weeks, many people, most notably Central Austin CDC, have pointed out a series of errors in the “Map Book” presented as…
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Sign the petition

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Folks, the deck is being stacked against rail on Lamar/Guadalupe – as I alluded to yesterday – the data-driven process is being co-opted by the…
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Capital Metro’s MetroRapid judged by the BRT Standard

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At 35,000 feet, I just storified the livetweet by Jace Deloney of MetroRapid by the BRT Standard, patient and added a few relevant other tweets…
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Presented with minimal comment

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In response to the post I spent two hours writing on the plane on Thursday:   In response to Jace’s excellent livetweet of MetroRapid as…
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Some pretty pictures

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Go click-crazy on these pics, man. In response to yesterday’s post: Some things I found in five seconds on the internet (I’m on vacation –…
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Rapid Bus versus existing conditions on the #3 corridor

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Best-case time for Rapid Bus, here we are. The existing service on Burnet Road heading southbound into downtown in the morning rush looks like this:…
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It’s time to talk about Rapid Bus again.

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So the PR machine is out in force trying to make Rapid Bus sound great so people are distracted from the fact that the densest,…
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Thought Experiment

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JMVC says this, paraphrased, a lot, and in fact, I completely agree with him: “Rather than moving to the suburbs and expecting transit to be…
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Capital Metro and Rail Demand, Part The Deux

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According to our buddy John-Michael Vincent Cortez, this area justifies rail service: but this location does not: But surely I must have taken a bad…
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Spin alert: Back to our buddy

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From his twitter last night: Huh. Interesting this survey has not been published. Meanwhile, I refer again back to my three posts on the specific…
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