Tag: Not happy about being proven right
Yesterday’s robot bus reveal
should have been no surprise. If you follow me on twitter, and why wouldn’t you,1 you’ve been hearing about this ever since my meeting with…
FTA issues report on Austin Metro Rapid
Thanks to Lyndon Henry for finding and posting the link to the PDF. Some important quotes: In the Route 801 corridor, the primary impacts of…
Cap Metro: Same as it ever was
They’ve just cut off access to one of the few members of the press willing to report fairly and honestly on them because they didn’t…
CodeNEXT was not worth the wait
This is my short and sharp reading of the CodeNEXT ‘draft’ that came out this week. I’ve been describing it as “activist flypaper” for years…
Hey KUT, wha happen?
An awful lot of people parroted the same talking points supported by your cards (i.e. the large print) in your ‘explainer’ article and ignored statements…
Lost Cause Theory
Hey you remember when the North decided to be way too nice to the South and the result was that generations of kids down here…
APTA confirms Austin’s bus ridership is dropping
Austin
Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want
I Told You So
Rapid Bus Ain't Rapid
Transit in Austin
Transportation
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…
Where did the Highland alignment come from?
2008 Light Rail
I Told You So
Republicans Hate Public Transportation
Subsidies to Suburban Sprawl
Texas Republicans Hate Cities
A short interlude from the “urbanists, seriously, the rail election is important” thread: As somebody who was involved in the Project Connect Phase 1 process,…
Project Connect Phase 1 Lie Number 2
“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…
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…