Republicans Hate Poor People – Page 12 – M1EK's Bake-Sale of Bile

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Rapid Bus Ain’t Rapid, June 2005 Update

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Rapid Bus sucks. Urban Austin got screwed.

Rapid [sic] Bus statesman

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On rail success and how not to get there

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Two paragraphs on why light rail would have worked but commuter rail won't.

2000 LRT comments on other blogs Red Line

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Not much room for optimism

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The market isn't going to make adjusting to peak oil very easy or comfortable, despite what your friendly local libertarians will tell you.

this did not age well

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These things are connected

Funding of Transportation I Told You So Politics (Outside Austin) Republicans Hate Poor People Republicans Hate Public Transportation Republicans Hate The Environment

Small cars hit by SUVs are in big trouble. Who'd have guessed?

driving SUVs are the devil

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Why Central Austinites Should Support Toll Roads

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If you're a central Austinite, toll roads are better than free roads.

Roger Baker is wrong about everything toll roads

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Rapid Bus Ain’t Rapid

Capital Metro is trying to get you excited about Rapid Bus, since if you're an Central Austinite, you're not getting rail.

Rapid [sic] Bus

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Cars’ FRR is often zero

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Buses are horrible, because we subsidize their users! But what about your car?

FRR glibertarians subsidizing suburbanites subsidizing the suburbanites suburban drivers love welfare suburban freeloaders

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Capital Metro, Empty Buses, and Farebox Recovery Ratio

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The buses aren't empty, and local libertarians are still hypocrites

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The “Exit Test”: Suburb vs. City: Major Roads, from I-35

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Check the exit signs when you're driving on I-35.

driving subsidizing suburbanites subsidizing the suburbanites suburban drivers love welfare suburban freeloaders

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The “HEB test”

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The "HEB test" shows that Central Austin gets screwed on gas taxes

driving subsidizing suburbanites subsidizing the suburbanites suburban drivers love welfare suburban freeloaders