Fact Check – Page 2 – M1EK's Bake-Sale of Bile

Hey KUT, wha happen?

I Told You So

An awful lot of people parroted the same talking points supported by your cards (i.e. the large print) in your ‘explainer’ article and ignored statements…

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Know how you can tell they’re not honest?

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Capital Metro edition Yes, it’s been a while1. In a recent twitter thread, Karl-Thomas Musselman posted the tweet below. I am making this blog post…

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#atxrail classic courtesy of Central Austin CDC

2014 Light Rail Austin Honesty Agenda I Told You So

The insiders who messed up Proposition 1 still haven’t come to terms with what they did, so I’m not going to let it sit either.…

Austin Capital Metro Fact Check honesty agenda liar lies pretty pictures Project Connect proving the obvious urban rail

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APTA confirms Austin’s bus ridership is dropping

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I tweeted about this yesterday and due to time constraints will just copy it here via storify. [View the story “APTA confirms Austin’s bus…

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Austin’s land use ISN’T the problem behind Capital Metro’s poor ridership

Austin Charts and Graphs PS: I am not a crackpot Rapid Bus Ain't Rapid Transit in Austin Transportation Urban Design VMU

I just sent the slideshare version (contains more slides) to all city council members. I’ve exported some to images for this blog post; but going…

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Honesty Agenda: First Case Study

Austin Honesty Agenda Transit in Austin Transportation VMU

Time to deploy the Honesty Agenda against a recent series of articles from KUT

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Central Austin boxes: 2014 versus 2000

2014 Light Rail Austin Charts and Graphs

I’ve started this spreadsheet (read-only link; you can save and edit as you like) of mostly strong pro-rail boxes in 2000 (basically central Austin, until…

Austin Fact Check

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How pro-Proposition-1 establishment figures try to get away with it

2008 Light Rail Austin Transit in Austin

Dave Sullivan, for months, on the CCAG, at meetings like this one: “Nobody will show me the data! Show me the data!” AURA, yesterday, released…

Austin Capital Metro Fact Check hackedunfixed Project Connect urban rail

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Where did the Highland alignment come from?

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A short interlude from the “urbanists, seriously, the rail election is important” thread: As somebody who was involved in the Project Connect Phase 1 process,…

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Rapid Bus has degraded bus service overall

Austin Charts and Graphs Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want Rapid Bus Ain't Rapid Transit in Austin Transportation Urban Design VMU

This VMU on Lamar at North Loop (google maps link; as of 9/5/2014 the streetview picture is from construction) is open now. I like it.…

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