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What bad guys can accomplish

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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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The FTA and last night

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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.

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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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In response to the post I spent two hours writing on the plane on Thursday:   In response to Jace’s excellent livetweet of MetroRapid as…
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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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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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Alliance for Public Transportation is a joke

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Austin's Alliance for Public Transportation is a joke compared to the CITC in Houston.
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