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Project Connect 2.0: Now More Than Ever

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So I went to a Project Connect 2.0 presentation on Tuesday night, organized by Friends of Hyde Park. As is my wont, I also asked…
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First look at Project Connect 2.0

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Thanks to the Friends of Hyde Park, I got presented at last night by Project Connect (2.0, now more than ever, etc etc). Here are…
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In the year 2000

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of course, the humans are dead. In the year 2008, the following files represent the main local and express bus services on Guadalupe (thanks to…
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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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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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#atxrail classic courtesy of Central Austin CDC

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The insiders who messed up Proposition 1 still haven’t come to terms with what they did, so I’m not going to let it sit either.…
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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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