Category: Transit in Austin

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Shame on Commissioner Weatherby and Mayor Adler

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As a former proud member of the city’s Urban Transportation Commission, I am disgusted with Cynthia Weatherby’s transparently obvious water-carrying for Mayor Adler in making…
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Checking in

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I don’t post very much, as the state of urbanist and transit advocacy in Austin has depressed it out of me, but as a reminder,…
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Lost Cause Theory

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Hey you remember when the North decided to be way too nice to the South and the result was that generations of kids down here…
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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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APTA confirms Austin’s bus ridership is dropping

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I tweeted about this yesterday and due to time constraints will just copy it here via storify.   [View the story “APTA confirms Austin’s bus…
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Austin’s land use ISN’T the problem behind Capital Metro’s poor ridership

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I just sent the slideshare version (contains more slides) to all city council members. I’ve exported some to images for this blog post; but going…
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A short addition to the Honesty Agenda

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Saturday while at my son’s chess tournament and writing this article, I also stumbled across an old exchange (pre-election) between some folks in AURA (obviously…
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Honesty Agenda: First Case Study

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Time to deploy the Honesty Agenda against a recent series of articles from KUT
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2015 Honesty Agenda on Transportation: What is honesty?

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Made With Notepad because paying for wifi for an hour of personal use seemed unwise. So here we go. Refer back to Part 1 of…
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For 2015: An Honesty Agenda for Capital Metro (and others): Prelude

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Right now, in order to get ridership numbers from Capital Metro, you practically have to file a freedom of information request.  That’s not the case…
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