The following is the text of a flyer from the Downtown Austin Plan. Looks like a pretty important meeting to me. LH Please join us for a public workshop...
... The following analysis from Light Rail Now is based on data for the Portland Streetcar, but it may be useful for the Kenosha situation: Streetcar vs. Bus:...
Yesterday (Saturday, Nov. 24th) Charlotte, NC became the latest American city to operate a new light rail transit (LRT) system - and some of its experiences...
Ben Wear's latest numbers game on Capital Metro's rail transit project appears in today's Austin American-Statesman (see full article, below). Wear, whose...
Jim Skaggs's attack on Capital Metro and Austin-area public transit in his op-ed piece in yesterday's Austin American-Statesman (appended in toto, below)...
Austin's Mayor Will Wynn has taken the lead in proposing an expanded urban rail transit system for Austin - apparently with a revival of the shelved light rail...
The draconian censorship that has been practiced on ANCTalk by its administrators is deleterious to the process of addressing the many problems facing Austin...
I have been trying since yesterday to subscribe to the Mueller_Redevelopment Yahoo discussion group. All I've received is an automatic notice from Yahoo that...
We don't have streetcars yet but there are the Dillos downtown. They look great but not all that comfortable. And we do have a bus system. How many of us use...
... The Katrina disaster exposed the fact that New Orleans was virtually a basket case in terms of its general economy and income level of its population, and,...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the StreetcarsforAustin group. File :...
Webpage with excellent photos of the new Inekon Trio streetcar on order for Portland, Or and Washington, DC. http://www.inekon.cz/showdoc.do?docid=287 LH...
Here's the complete article (below) from the URL that Jonathan St. Thomas posted earlier. This is one of the most stunning examples of codswallop I have seen...
I wanted to let everyone know about a special deal you can get with Austin CarShare if you join and list me as your referral. Austin CarShare is offering a...
Comments below... ... For any transit agency, increasing service frequency is always a desired but highly problematic goal. Community pressures with respect...
... This sounds like it would be a fairly good, reasonably comprehensive preliminary analysis - but for ANY major transportation projects, particularly roadway...
... served in Mr. Bush’s first term as head of the Federal Highway Administration, then worked as an executive at a transportation engineering firm, HDR. ...
... Wikipedia's "definitions" have an array of problems - probably resulting in part from the rather eclectic, multiple-personality-disorder character of the...
At Saturday's workshop, the question was raised - do streetcars have an advantage over buses which would justify their expense? A similar question was just...
The Austin Neighborhoods Council, supported by Capital Metro, the University of Texas, and the City of Austin, held a citywide workshop on streetcar planning...
... This is a fallacious explanation of the Transit Holocaust which is widely and repeatedly disseminated by partisans of private motor vehicle dependency and...
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The following is excerpted from a recent posting to the ANCTalk list, regarding CapMetro's series of "Open Houses" providing info and seeking public input on...
... Thanks very much for the clarification of this issue and the information. Keep in mind my comments were posed as a question, not a statement of fact. ...
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