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Letter to Cap Metro board: OPPOSE Connections 2025

Austin Connections 2025 PS: I am not a crackpot Transit in Austin
Dear board members, I am writing as a former member of the city’s Urban Transportation Commission and a frequent author on the subject of transit…
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A sustainable transit plan for Austin – outline and introduction

Austin Project Connect 2.0 PS: I am not a crackpot Rapid Bus Ain't Rapid Red Line Myths
If this is sufficiently well-received I may fill in more later. This post is in response to a request from Friends of Austin Neighborhoods, an…
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Know how you can tell they’re not honest?

Austin Charts and Graphs Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want Economics High Grade Bile Honesty Agenda I Told You So Subsidies to Suburban Sprawl Transit in Austin Transportation
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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Where did the Highland alignment come from?

2008 Light Rail I Told You So Republicans Hate Public Transportation Subsidies to Suburban Sprawl Texas Republicans Hate Cities
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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No sir, I don’t buy it.

2008 Light Rail Austin Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want I Told You So Rapid Bus Ain't Rapid Republicans Hate Poor People Republicans Hate Public Transportation Republicans Hate The Environment Subsidies to Suburban Sprawl Texas Republicans Hate Cities Transit in Austin Transportation
My work situation is going to prevent me from making much effort on this today so please assume I endorse this product and/or service 100%.…
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Why shouldn’t we just say we’ll play along if they come clean about Rapid Bus?

2008 Light Rail Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want PS: I am not a crackpot Rapid Bus Ain't Rapid Transit in Austin Transportation
This meme has been floating around the tworterverse. The words below were sent by me over Thanksgiving in response to an email from a CCAG…
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Summary of yesterday

2008 Light Rail Austin Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want I Told You So Texas Republicans Hate Cities Transit in Austin Transportation
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…
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The ceiling for the Red Line

Austin Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want I Told You So Red Line Myths Subsidies to Suburban Sprawl Transit in Austin
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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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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I’m withdrawing my support for rail to Mueller

2008 Light Rail Austin Transit in Austin Transportation
JMVC says this, heart paraphrased, gerontologist a lot, for sale and in fact, I completely agree with him: “Rather than moving to the suburbs and…
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