Tag: bad financial decisions
Short, cheaply done, endorsement against Prop 1
Austin
Driving in Austin
PS: I am not a crackpot
Subsidies to Suburban Sprawl
Transportation
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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…
Know how you can tell they’re not honest?
Austin
Charts and Graphs
Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want
Economics
High Grade Bile
Honesty Agenda
I Told You So
Subsidies to Suburban Sprawl
Transit in Austin
Transportation
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…
Longtweet about courthouse endorsement by supposed urbanists
I don’t have time or the will to blog on anything these days, but this was too long for twitter, really, although I sort of…
A very accurate summary of where we are
2008 Light Rail
Republicans Hate Poor People
Republicans Hate Public Transportation
Republicans Hate The Environment
Texas Republicans Hate Cities
Transit in Austin
I don’t claim to know Leffingwell’s motivation, but everything else in this short post from Dave Dobbs via twitlonger is accurate: “Austin’s Proposition One is…
“The perfect is the enemy of the good” is the enemy of discourse.
I’ve just seen a leader of the getalong gang use that phrase twice in short succession. Cut that shit out. 1. Highland rail is NOT…
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…
Council, board: Reject the LPA so we don’t have to vote it down.
My letter to the city and Capital Metro urging they not accept the Project Connect LPA
Keep It Simple, Stupid
I almost made this response on the twitter but thought it should be more permanent. Trying to figure out where to put a rail line…
Great responses to John Langmore
2008 Light Rail
Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want
I Get Hate Mail
PS: I am not a crackpot
Republicans Hate Poor People
Republicans Hate Public Transportation
Republicans Hate The Environment
Texas Republicans Hate Cities
Transit in Austin
Worst Person In Austin
On days like this where I have no time it’s so nice that others have picked up the slack. I’m just going to republish their…
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…