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My speech from last night

2008 Light Rail Austin I Told You So PS: I am not a crackpot Rapid Bus Ain't Rapid Red Line Myths Texas Republicans Hate Cities Transit in Austin Transportation
I ripped up one of the copies I had and gave a short excoriation of the lack of meaningful public input, as this KUT story…
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Project Connect Phase 1 Lie Number 2

2008 Light Rail Austin Rapid Bus Ain't Rapid
“We can’t ask the Federal government to fund urban rail on Lamar/Guadalupe because they already paid for Rapid Bus, and they told us they wouldn’t…
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For the record

Rapid Bus Ain't Rapid
Over the last few years, I’ve written many times on this blog that Capital Metro was eliminating half of the local service on the route…
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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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The FTA and last night

2008 Light Rail Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want High Grade Bile I Told You So Rapid Bus Ain't Rapid Republicans Hate Poor People Republicans Hate Public Transportation Republicans Hate The Environment Texas Republicans Hate Cities Transit in Austin
if you parse Langmore’s comments it makes me think he was asking them about cancelling the project now (rather than moving the middle third in…
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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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Why shouldn’t we just say we’ll play along if they come clean about Rapid Bus?

2008 Light Rail Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want PS: I am not a crackpot Rapid Bus Ain't Rapid Transit in Austin Transportation
This meme has been floating around the tworterverse. The words below were sent by me over Thanksgiving in response to an email from a CCAG…
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The outline of the speech I didn’t give

Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want PS: I am not a crackpot Rapid Bus Ain't Rapid
[evp_embed_video url=”http://dahmus.org/20131115ccagcomment.mp4″] to which I do not know how much energy I shall devote as it appears to be oriented towards an effort to get…
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2000 words for today on MetroRapid

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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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GAME-CHANGER, PART TWO

Rapid Bus Ain't Rapid
At 35, erectile 000 feet, visit web I just storified the livetweet by Jace Deloney of MetroRapid by the BRT Standard, patient and added a…
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