suburbs – M1EK's Bake-Sale of Bile

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Hello Bikeness My Old Friend: Part 1 of the commute home: Our Fifth Second Downtown Really Sucks!

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(Overview Post here). Note: There really is a group pushing “Parmer!” as our seventh third downtown or some shit. Anyways, here’s the first part of…

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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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Why shouldn’t we just say we’ll play along if they come clean about Rapid Bus?

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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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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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Capital Metro and Rail Demand, Part The Deux

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According to our buddy John-Michael Vincent Cortez, this area justifies rail service: but this location does not: But surely I must have taken a bad…

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Capital Metro and rail demand

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According to Capital Metro, this spot has enough demand to justify rail: But this spot does not:

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Are Austin’s suburbs getting a sweet deal on transit or what?

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First assumption: JMVC (Capital Metro PR guy) knows that when people talk about the suburbs vs. the city, we’re talking mostly about the Red Line.…

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Commuter Rail Fact Sheet

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Facts on Cap Metro's commuter rail plan

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