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Cap Remap is a disaster

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Let’s recap: AURA, run by grifters and con-artists, bought in heavily to the grid redesign fairy dust theory. It didn’t hurt that their 2 chief…
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Austinites for Urban Rail Action

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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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What now for VMU?

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In yesterday’s post, steroids seek I showed that transit service along our best VMU corridor (Lamar/Guadalupe) has been significantly degraded by the introduction of Rapid…
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Rapid Bus has degraded bus service overall

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This VMU on Lamar at North Loop (google maps link; as of 9/5/2014 the streetview picture is from construction) is open now. I like it.…
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My speech from last night

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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…
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Project Connect Phase 1 Document Revealed!

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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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MetroRapid: What you REALLY need to know

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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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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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2000 words for today on MetroRapid

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is very low. I keep having to drag up this old Chronicle article so much I finally thought I’d better link to it AND excerpt…
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