Category: Austin

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AURA lies about homelessness

Austin Freedom Urbanism High Grade Bile PS: I am not a crackpot
From a post on the page of the only sitting city council member to which I donated (ask me why!), I replied: The multiple people…
AURA are bad people and should feel bad AURA sucks a bucket of diseased roosters
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Reminder on AURA and this blog

2020 Transit Campaign Austin PS: I am not a crackpot
As we enter another Stupid Season in Austin Transit, remember that thanks to AURA, I have no real audience anymore, so if you want me…
AURA bad people doing bad things if you don't help you're part of the problem
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Yet Again I Am Forced To Tell You I Told You So

Austin Connections 2025 Empty Buses I Told You So
Many months ago I wrote this post: This morning, M1EK jr rode the 335 2.75 miles west from the closest stop to our house, to…
empty buses grid redesigns are transit cargo cults i told you so
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One of these routes is not like the others

Austin Connections 2025
Which one doesn’t belong? Which one doesn’t belong, part deux?
Capital Metro capremap Rapid [sic] Bus
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Why were you dropped, blocked, or unfriended; April 2019 edition

Austin High Grade Bile metablog
See the pinned tweet thread if I’m public at the time you read this, otherwise I’ve cut/pasted some of the key text below the nice…
AURA Austin will never be better until people stop letting bad people get away with doing bad things How I can better spend my time so I don't have a heart attack
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Project Connect: Here We Go Again Again

2016 Light Rail Austin Honesty Agenda I Told You So Project Connect 2.0 Transit in Austin
(I had this ready to post to #atxfreedomurbanists, Austin’s only urbanist group that doesn’t suck, but facebook has been down all day and I’m tired…
AURA sucks a bucket of diseased roosters cap metro is lying about project connect Project Connect 2.0
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What will it take to elect an urbanist?

Austin
In District 9, or any of the wealthier close-in districts such as 5, 7, and 10? (Districts 1, 2, 3, and 4 are a different…
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Density and transit service, in pictures

Austin Rapid Bus Ain't Rapid Transit in Austin Transportation Urban Design VMU
In 2011, this bus stop had buses stopping every 10-15 minutes during peak times; it was the highest ridership route in the system by far.…
AURA Austin Capital Metro Fact Check Guadalupe horrible ideas pretty pictures proving the obvious
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On Proposition A

Austin Economics Freedom Urbanism
Dealing with a work fire but this comment from Austin’s only good urbanist group deserved something more visible/accessible…. The housing bond is dumb when it…
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