The Austin Neighborhoods Council, supported by Capital Metro, the University of Texas, and the City of Austin, held a citywide workshop on streetcar planning...
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...
... Wikipedia's "definitions" have an array of problems - probably resulting in part from the rather eclectic, multiple-personality-disorder character of the...
... 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. ...
... This sounds like it would be a fairly good, reasonably comprehensive preliminary analysis - but for ANY major transportation projects, particularly roadway...
Comments below... ... For any transit agency, increasing service frequency is always a desired but highly problematic goal. Community pressures with respect...
... exactly zero of which would help any of the issues Ms. Epstein raised. The streetcar service proposed by Capital Metro truly _is_ "bus on rails" - it has...
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...
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...
"Portland had no downtown left" before light rail? That's more disinformation. I lived in Portland from '82-90 when the light rail was proposed, installed, ...
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...
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... 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,...
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...
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...
I'd write it off to the holiday weekend. I think Mark Boyden or Rick Krivoniak (?) is the owner, but don't quote me on that. Seems to be an inclusive list so...
The draconian censorship that has been practiced on ANCTalk by its administrators is deleterious to the process of addressing the many problems facing Austin...
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...
... I counted responses to choice 1 ("It fits Austin's downtown growth") and 3 ("It might work better since it's divorced from Capital Metro") as basically...
... Actually, the summary was useless - nobody is saying whether this is just an expanded version of the useless All Systems Go circulator proposal or an...
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)...
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...
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