Category: Walking in Austin (Pedestrian Issues)
Why frontage roads are bad for transit
Austin
Driving in Austin
I Told You So
Subsidies to Suburban Sprawl
Texas Republicans Hate Cities
Transportation
Urban Design
Walking in Austin (Pedestrian Issues)
Background on "why transit service on frontage roads is impossible to do well" - two examples from Austin
Statesman clueless about urban development
Austin
Republicans Hate Public Transportation
Subsidies to Suburban Sprawl
Texas Republicans Hate Cities
Urban Design
Walking in Austin (Pedestrian Issues)
Statesman whiffs on definition of "urban", "central-city".
We Don’t Need A New Library (Yet)
The new library bond is a bad idea - for now.
Build Greater Austin and Capital Metro
Austin
Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want
Transit in Austin
Transportation
Walking in Austin (Pedestrian Issues)
Capital Metro about to screw Central Austin even further by cutting off BGA funds
“People don’t want density”
"Most people don't like density" because the supposed density they lived in was suburban apartment crap.
The street is not the property of adjacent landowners.
Who is the suckiest suck of them all today? South Austin neighborhood associations, of course!
Tree Trimming and Power Outages
Austin
Economics
Republicans Hate The Environment
Urban Design
Walking in Austin (Pedestrian Issues)
When Neighborhoods Go Bad
Folks who don't want Austin Energy to trim their trees ought to be part of the solution rather than part of the problem. M1EK has…
The thing people aren’t getting about the library
Austin
Empty Buses
Republicans Hate Poor People
Republicans Hate Public Transportation
Transit in Austin
Transportation
Urban Design
Use Cases
Walking in Austin (Pedestrian Issues)
Don't move the library away from the big bus corridors just to look pretty.
“Build it and they’ll come” is no way to run a city
Austin
Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want
I Told You So
Republicans Hate Poor People
Republicans Hate Public Transportation
Republicans Hate The Environment
Texas Republicans Hate Cities
Transit in Austin
Transportation
Urban Design
Use Cases
Walking in Austin (Pedestrian Issues)
When Neighborhoods Go Bad
Hyde Park neighbors, like Cap Metro, believes "if you build it, they'll come", even if what you build is Very Crappy.