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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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GAME-CHANGER, PART TWO

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At 35, erectile 000 feet, visit web I just storified the livetweet by Jace Deloney of MetroRapid by the BRT Standard, patient and added a…
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GAME-CHANGER Part One

Austin Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want Rapid Bus Ain't Rapid
(I still owe a response to Novacek’s very long comment on this post but have to decide if I want to spend the energy to…
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Capital Metro’s MetroRapid judged by the BRT Standard

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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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Some pretty pictures

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Go click-crazy on these pics, man. In response to yesterday’s post: Some things I found in five seconds on the internet (I’m on vacation –…
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MetroRapid on Lamar/Guadalupe: the REAL breakdown

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Having seen somebody very recently and very approvingly point to this somewhat credulous piece on the Austin Post as “a breakdown” of MetroRapid, and having…
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Rapid Bus versus existing conditions on the #3 corridor

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Best-case time for Rapid Bus, here we are. The existing service on Burnet Road heading southbound into downtown in the morning rush looks like this:…
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It’s time to talk about Rapid Bus again.

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So the PR machine is out in force trying to make Rapid Bus sound great so people are distracted from the fact that the densest,…
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Thought Experiment

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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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