Subsidies to Suburban Sprawl – M1EK's Bake-Sale of Bile

Cap Metro Fare ‘Increase’ Proposal

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There’s rumblings afoot that Cap Metro is considering an across-the-board fare increase, which is stupid and sucks. Here’s a better idea, combined from two tweets…

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Short, cheaply done, endorsement against Prop 1

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Austin has a nearly perfect record of projects being sold as “don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good” when they are actually…

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Know how you can tell they’re not honest?

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Capital Metro edition Yes, it’s been a while1. In a recent twitter thread, Karl-Thomas Musselman posted the tweet below. I am making this blog post…

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Where did the Highland alignment come from?

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A short interlude from the “urbanists, seriously, the rail election is important” thread: As somebody who was involved in the Project Connect Phase 1 process,…

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No sir, I don’t buy it.

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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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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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Here They Go Again

Subsidies to Suburban Sprawl When Neighborhoods Go Bad

Best-case time for Rapid Bus, cheap here we are. The existing service on Burnet Road heading southbound into downtown in the morning rush looks like…

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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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Capital Metro and Rail Demand, Part The Deux

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According to our buddy John-Michael Vincent Cortez, this area justifies rail service: but this location does not: But surely I must have taken a bad…

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