Month: January 2013

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Thought Experiment

2008 Light Rail Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want Transit in Austin Transportation
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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What it’ll look like to walk to Wheatsville South Lamar

Urban Design Walking in Austin (Pedestrian Issues)
Wasn’t intending for this to be a blog post, but RRISD blocks SSH to my host, so this is the only way I can get…
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Capital Metro and Rail Demand, Part The Deux

2008 Light Rail Austin Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want Red Line Myths Subsidies to Suburban Sprawl Transit in Austin Transportation Urban Design
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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Spin alert: Back to our buddy

Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want I Told You So PS: I am not a crackpot Red Line Myths Transit in Austin Transportation
From his twitter last night: Huh. Interesting this survey has not been published. Meanwhile, I refer again back to my three posts on the specific…
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Capital Metro and rail demand

2008 Light Rail Austin Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want Transit in Austin Transportation Urban Design
According to Capital Metro, this spot has enough demand to justify rail: But this spot does not:
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Quick response to spin session

Austin Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want I Told You So Rapid Bus Ain't Rapid Red Line Myths Transit in Austin Transportation
I’m really swamped but did not want to let this one go. Watch this video and go to item 4B (zoom forward to when JMVC talks…
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