Austin – Page 23 – M1EK's Bake-Sale of Bile

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City wastes millions of dollars…

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...on planning for TOD around a line that isn't and never will be good T

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VMU: Hyde Park goes reactionary

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Remember the McMansion "deal"? Yeah, now Hyde Park wants out. Big surprise.

neighborhood associations run amuck VMU

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TFT: Suburban wasteland

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A fun bus trip from Westlake to central Austin. Loooong semi-live crackbusplog.

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Chronicle comment of the month

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Current state of RG4N, summed up quite nicely

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Downtown Austin Plan gets transportation completely wrong

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2-way streets and mixed-traffic streetcar are awful 'solutions' for downtown mobility problems.

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Why transit service doesn’t work on frontage roads

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Better images explaining why frontage roads make bus service nearly impossible to provide well

frontage roads suck monkeysystemslinks

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Why Streetcars Suck: Simple Example

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Streetcar hype versus traffic reality

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Keep Domain Subsidies

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If locally-owned businesses want subsidies too, they should stop moving to pedestrian-hostile strip malls.

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What RG4N cost us: part two

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Some nuggets of truthiness with which RG4N has successfully confused the populace

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What RG4N cost us: part one

Austin I Told You So When Neighborhoods Go Bad

Now that they've lost, it's time for an accounting.