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In the year 2000

Connections 2025
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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#atxrail classic courtesy of Central Austin CDC

2014 Light Rail Austin Honesty Agenda I Told You So
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.…
Austin Capital Metro Fact Check honesty agenda liar lies pretty pictures Project Connect proving the obvious urban rail
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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,…
Austin Capital Metro Fact Check liar lies Not happy about being proven right Project Connect proving the obvious subsidizing suburbanites subsidizing the suburbanites subsidy suburban freeloaders suburbs urban rail
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Rapid Bus has degraded bus service overall

Austin Charts and Graphs Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want Rapid Bus Ain't Rapid Transit in Austin Transportation Urban Design VMU
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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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…
asshats Austin Capital Metro Fact Check Guadalupe hackedunfixed jmvc liar lies Not happy about being proven right Project Connect proving the obvious Rapid [sic] Bus urban rail
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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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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…
asshats Austin bad economics bad financial decisions Capital Metro Fact Check Guadalupe horrible ideas liar lies Not happy about being proven right operating subsidies operating subsidy Project Connect proving the obvious Rapid [sic] Bus urban rail
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2008 Light Rail Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want Transit in Austin Transportation
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%.
Austin bad financial decisions Capital Metro hackedunfixed horrible ideas Not happy about being proven right proving the obvious Rapid [sic] Bus Red Line subsidizing suburbanites subsidizing the suburbanites subsidy urban rail
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