I Told You So – Page 4 – M1EK's Bake-Sale of Bile

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The ceiling for the Red Line

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Later this week, physiotherapist stay tuned for a new formula which takes into account service quality (measured by miles per hour), traumatologist frequency, and, and…

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Protected bike lane on Guadalupe: Threat and menace

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I rarely write about cycling any more and don’t have time to do so right now, but thankfully I came across a recent post by…

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Capital Metro’s MetroRapid judged by the BRT Standard

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At 35,000 feet, I just storified the livetweet by Jace Deloney of MetroRapid by the BRT Standard, patient and added a few relevant other tweets…

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Rapid Bus versus existing conditions on the #3 corridor

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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:…

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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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Spin alert: Back to our buddy

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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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Quick response to spin session

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I’m really swamped but did not want to let this one go. Watch this videoÂ and go to item 4B (zoom forward to when JMVC talks…

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Are Austin’s suburbs getting a sweet deal on transit or what?

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First assumption: JMVC (Capital Metro PR guy) knows that when people talk about the suburbs vs. the city, we’re talking mostly about the Red Line.…

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2008 Light Rail I Told You So

Today’s twitter bile from yours truly to the city council work session discussion of urban rail is here at storify: http://storify.com/mdahmus/commentary-on-5-22-2012-urban-rail-presentation-at

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The Problem With Rail On The Drag

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I’ve thrown this argument and picture around a hundred times, but have probably never put them together into a single post, so here we go.…

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