2008 Light Rail – Page 3 – M1EK's Bake-Sale of Bile

Reaction from around the dial

2008 Light Rail Austin Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want I Told You So PS: I am not a crackpot Transit in Austin Transportation

Going backwards; reaction from around the country to the Project Connect rec and the Mayor’s endorsement of the process and the result: Stephen Smith at…

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Citizen comment from 11/15/2013 CCAG

2008 Light Rail Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want High Grade Bile PS: I am not a crackpot Texas Republicans Hate Cities

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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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West Campus, UT, and “The Core”

2008 Light Rail Austin Transit in Austin Transportation

At one point later on, a very good pal of mine who is working on the program answered John Lawler (UT student government)’s question about…

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Project Connect’s “response”

2008 Light Rail I Told You So Transit in Austin Transportation

Doing this quickly at the car dealer to get it out. Thus, page this is going to be a lot of screencaps ‘n’ paste action…

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Project Connect and Capital Metro need to answer some serious questions, right now

2008 Light Rail Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want I Told You So Transit in Austin Transportation

In the last several weeks, many people, most notably Central Austin CDC, have pointed out a series of errors in the “Map Book” presented as…

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Sign the petition

2008 Light Rail Austin Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want Transit in Austin Transportation

Folks, the deck is being stacked against rail on Lamar/Guadalupe – as I alluded to yesterday – the data-driven process is being co-opted by the…

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Important quote about rail

2008 Light Rail Austin Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want

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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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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