Month: February 2013

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Rapid Bus versus existing conditions on the #3 corridor

Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want I Told You So Rapid Bus Ain't Rapid Subsidies to Suburban Sprawl Use Cases
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:…
Austin Capital Metro horrible ideas jmvc liar lies proving the obvious subsidizing suburbanites subsidizing the suburbanites suburbs
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It’s time to talk about Rapid Bus again.

2008 Light Rail Austin Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want Funding of Transportation High Grade Bile I Told You So metablog Rapid Bus Ain't Rapid Red Line Myths Subsidies to Suburban Sprawl Texas Republicans Hate Cities
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,…
asshats Austin bad economics bad financial decisions Capital Metro Fact Check horrible ideas jmvc liar lies mueller operating subsidies operating subsidy pastures proving the obvious Rapid [sic] Bus Red Line spin subsidizing suburbanites subsidizing the suburbanites subsidy suburban freeloaders suburbs urban rail
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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…
Austin Capital Metro hackedunfixed horrible ideas mueller subsidizing suburbanites subsidizing the suburbanites subsidy suburban freeloaders TOD urban rail
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