Category: Transit in Austin

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No sir, I don’t buy it.

2008 Light Rail Austin Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want I Told You So Rapid Bus Ain't Rapid Republicans Hate Poor People Republicans Hate Public Transportation Republicans Hate The Environment Subsidies to Suburban Sprawl Texas Republicans Hate Cities Transit in Austin Transportation
My work situation is going to prevent me from making much effort on this today so please assume I endorse this product and/or service 100%.…
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I endorse this product and/or service

2008 Light Rail Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want Transit in Austin Transportation
My work situation is going to prevent me from making much effort on this today so please assume I endorse this product and/or service 100%.
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A bird in the hand should be worth ten in the bush.

2008 Light Rail Transit in Austin
You may see a lot of people talking about how it’s important to serve future growth with rail transit – and what that means in…
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Why shouldn’t we just say we’ll play along if they come clean about Rapid Bus?

2008 Light Rail Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want PS: I am not a crackpot Rapid Bus Ain't Rapid Transit in Austin Transportation
This meme has been floating around the tworterverse. The words below were sent by me over Thanksgiving in response to an email from a CCAG…
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Audience participation time

2008 Light Rail Austin Transit in Austin
Go here: http://aura-atx.org/keepitreal.html Do what it says. If you want rail to succeed in Austin. This exercise is not optional.
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Reaction from around the dial

2008 Light Rail Austin Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want I Told You So PS: I am not a crackpot Transit in Austin Transportation
Going backwards; reaction from around the country to the Project Connect rec and the Mayor’s endorsement of the process and the result: Stephen Smith at…
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Summary of yesterday

2008 Light Rail Austin Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want I Told You So Texas Republicans Hate Cities Transit in Austin Transportation
Update: The video’s already up; you can see my speech here (click on Citizens Communications to jump to me). I spoke in citizens’ communication yesterday…
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West Campus, UT, and “The Core”

2008 Light Rail Austin Transit in Austin Transportation
At one point later on, a very good pal of mine who is working on the program answered John Lawler (UT student government)’s question about…
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Project Connect’s “response”

2008 Light Rail I Told You So Transit in Austin Transportation
Doing this quickly at the car dealer to get it out. Thus, page this is going to be a lot of screencaps ‘n’ paste action…
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Project Connect and Capital Metro need to answer some serious questions, right now

2008 Light Rail Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want I Told You So Transit in Austin Transportation
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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