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Council, board: Reject the LPA so we don’t have to vote it down.

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My letter to the city and Capital Metro urging they not accept the Project Connect LPA
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Project Connect Phase 1 Lie Number 2

2008 Light Rail Austin Rapid Bus Ain't Rapid
“We can’t ask the Federal government to fund urban rail on Lamar/Guadalupe because they already paid for Rapid Bus, and they told us they wouldn’t…
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Keep It Simple, Stupid

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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…
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Project Connect Phase 1 Document Revealed!

2008 Light Rail Austin I Told You So
I discovered this today, and it clearly shows Project Connect did, in fact, rate the top four options against each other (and some others we…
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Project Connect Phase 1 Lie Number 1

2008 Light Rail Austin Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want High Grade Bile I Told You So Transit in Austin Transportation
Lie #1 during Phase 1 of Project Connect was the justification of the collapsing of the West Campus and UT “subcorridors” (zones) into the Core…
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For the record

Rapid Bus Ain't Rapid
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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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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MetroRapid: What you REALLY need to know

Austin Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want I Told You So Rapid Bus Ain't Rapid
A comment I posted to this PR fluff piece by Movability: What you need to know is that this REDUCES frequency for current 1/101 riders…
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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…
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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…
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