Category: Austin

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I Was Wrong About Steve Adler

Austin I Was Wrong
Before I get to Todd Hemingson’s latest amazing chutzpah, I did promise this and then ran out of time, and then a week on the…
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#atxrail classic courtesy of Central Austin CDC

2014 Light Rail Austin Honesty Agenda I Told You So
The insiders who messed up Proposition 1 still haven’t come to terms with what they did, so I’m not going to let it sit either.…
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APTA confirms Austin’s bus ridership is dropping

Austin Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want I Told You So Rapid Bus Ain't Rapid Transit in Austin Transportation
I tweeted about this yesterday and due to time constraints will just copy it here via storify.   [View the story “APTA confirms Austin’s bus…
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Austin’s land use ISN’T the problem behind Capital Metro’s poor ridership

Austin Charts and Graphs PS: I am not a crackpot Rapid Bus Ain't Rapid Transit in Austin Transportation Urban Design VMU
I just sent the slideshare version (contains more slides) to all city council members. I’ve exported some to images for this blog post; but going…
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A short addition to the Honesty Agenda

2014 Light Rail Austin Honesty Agenda Transit in Austin Transportation
Saturday while at my son’s chess tournament and writing this article, I also stumbled across an old exchange (pre-election) between some folks in AURA (obviously…
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Honesty Agenda: First Case Study

Austin Honesty Agenda Transit in Austin Transportation VMU
Time to deploy the Honesty Agenda against a recent series of articles from KUT
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2015 Honesty Agenda on Transportation: What is honesty?

Austin Honesty Agenda Transit in Austin Transportation
Made With Notepad because paying for wifi for an hour of personal use seemed unwise. So here we go. Refer back to Part 1 of…
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For 2015: An Honesty Agenda for Capital Metro (and others): Prelude

2014 Light Rail Austin Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want Honesty Agenda Rapid Bus Ain't Rapid Red Line Myths Transit in Austin Transportation
Right now, in order to get ridership numbers from Capital Metro, you practically have to file a freedom of information request.  That’s not the case…
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The mayoral runoff

Austin
I’ve started this spreadsheet (read-only link; you can save and edit as you like) of mostly strong pro-rail boxes in 2000 (basically central Austin, hair…
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Endorsements, if anybody cares

Austin
Dave Sullivan, generic for months, ampoule on the CCAG, ampoule at meetings like this one: “Nobody will show me the data! Show me the data!”…
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