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Project Connect Phase 1 Lie Number 1

2008 Light Rail Austin Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want High Grade Bile I Told You So Transit in Austin Transportation
Lie #1 during Phase 1 of Project Connect was the justification of the collapsing of the West Campus and UT “subcorridors” (zones) into the Core…
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MetroRapid: What you REALLY need to know

Austin Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want I Told You So Rapid Bus Ain't Rapid
A comment I posted to this PR fluff piece by Movability: What you need to know is that this REDUCES frequency for current 1/101 riders…
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No sir, I don’t buy it.

2008 Light Rail Austin Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want I Told You So Rapid Bus Ain't Rapid Republicans Hate Poor People Republicans Hate Public Transportation Republicans Hate The Environment Subsidies to Suburban Sprawl Texas Republicans Hate Cities Transit in Austin Transportation
My work situation is going to prevent me from making much effort on this today so please assume I endorse this product and/or service 100%.…
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Audience participation time

2008 Light Rail Austin Transit in Austin
Go here: http://aura-atx.org/keepitreal.html Do what it says. If you want rail to succeed in Austin. This exercise is not optional.
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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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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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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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2000 words for today on MetroRapid

Austin Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want Rapid Bus Ain't Rapid Transit in Austin
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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