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 Next City has just published Transit Advocates None Too Pleased About Austin’s Light Rail Corridor Selection in which I am quoted as well as several friends-of-the-crackplog. Pretty much every urbanist/transitophile […]
[evp_embed_video url=”http://dahmus.org/20131115ccagcomment.mp4″] to which I do not know how much energy I shall devote as it appears to be oriented towards an effort to get buy-in from the more general public who doesn’t even understand transit rather than correcting their horrible process so far. But consider this a cry for reinforcements, store and an argument […]
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 to the CCAG. Gave up a half day to do so (had to be there to sign up at 1:15; limited slots; ended up getting there shortly after noon to […]
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 and poorly formatted. You are forewarned. First, some background, via cheap and dirty screencaps of some twitter conversations; click to embiggen: Notice how many people immediately saw the problem with […]
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 data in various public meetings by Project Connect. I myself found and commented on several at a public meeting downtown, which seemed designed to make the Mueller route look far […]
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 people who want and need it to go to Mueller for political reasons. leading to a set of ridiculous assertions in the map book, and then a set of ridiculous […]
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 the relevant parts in case it ever disappears down the memory hole. February 25, check 2000 in the Chronicle: The prevailing wisdom has been that a project in Smart-Grown Austin, […]
Today’s twitter bile from yours truly to the city council work session discussion of urban rail is here at storify: http://storify.com/mdahmus/commentary-on-5-22-2012-urban-rail-presentation-at This still apparently gets some people the wrong way. Please read it all the way through. Vomited out quickly because I really don’t have time to blog, treatment but I have even less time […]
This image is from the 2010 presentation of the Mueller “market district”. The big box in the lower right is the grocery store, physician which is now apparently going to be an HEB. But the most important question by far: will it be urban or suburban? Let’s ask our old friend David Sucher of City […]
This image is from the 2010 presentation of the Mueller “market district”. The big box in the lower right is the grocery store, physician which is now apparently going to be an HEB. But the most important question by far: will it be urban or suburban? Let’s ask our old friend David Sucher of City […]