Category: Transit in Austin

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Sign the petition

2008 Light Rail Austin Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want Transit in Austin Transportation
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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2000 words for today on MetroRapid

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is very low. I keep having to drag up this old Chronicle article so much I finally thought I’d better link to it AND excerpt…
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The ceiling for the Red Line

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Later this week, physiotherapist stay tuned for a new formula which takes into account service quality (measured by miles per hour), traumatologist frequency, and, and…
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Capital Metro’s MetroRapid judged by the BRT Standard

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
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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I’m withdrawing my support for rail to Mueller

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JMVC says this, heart paraphrased, gerontologist a lot, for sale and in fact, I completely agree with him: “Rather than moving to the suburbs and…
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Thought Experiment

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

2008 Light Rail Austin Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want Red Line Myths Subsidies to Suburban Sprawl Transit in Austin Transportation Urban Design
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

Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want I Told You So PS: I am not a crackpot Red Line Myths Transit in Austin Transportation
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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Capital Metro and rail demand

2008 Light Rail Austin Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want Transit in Austin Transportation Urban Design
According to Capital Metro, this spot has enough demand to justify rail: But this spot does not:
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Quick response to spin session

Austin Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want I Told You So Rapid Bus Ain't Rapid Red Line Myths Transit in Austin Transportation
I’m really swamped but did not want to let this one go. Watch this video and go to item 4B (zoom forward to when JMVC talks…
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