Urban Design – Page 9 – M1EK's Bake-Sale of Bile

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Brewster et al, I Told You So

Austin Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want I Told You So metablog Personal Rapid Bus Ain't Rapid Republicans Hate Poor People Republicans Hate Public Transportation Republicans Hate The Environment Texas Republicans Hate Cities Transit in Austin Transportation Urban Design

City Council finally realizing that commuter rail is for Krusee's constituents and not for Austinites?

2004 election Austin bad economics bad financial decisions Capital Metro monkeysystemslinks Not happy about being proven right this aged well

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Weekend Northcross Wal-Mart Roundup

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Roundup of a few Wal-Mart related items from the weekend

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Dear Jennifer Kim

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Big retail and employment destinations do NOT belong on frontage roads.

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Nobody talks about Austin rail like this…

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Aerial of various rail routes downtown

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Response to McCracken

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My response to council-member McCracken

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Things I hate about Wal-Mart

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I hate Wal-Mart too, just in case you were wondering, but that's not moral justification for suing the city.

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Wal-Mart at Northcross: Relevant pictures

Austin Urban Design When Neighborhoods Go Bad

Pictures: What the "middle of the neighborhood" at Northcross really looks like

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Why frontage roads are bad for transit

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Background on "why transit service on frontage roads is impossible to do well" - two examples from Austin

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Why I’m Rooting For Wal-Mart

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Wal-Mart, Northcross neighbors both bad guys. I choose Wal-Mart.

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Wal-Marts on freeways: bad idea

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Putting a big box on city arterials is actually BETTER for us than sticking it on a frontage road.

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