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USER STORY: RAPIDLY DECLINING – Austin: RESTORE OUR LOCALS

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Austin: RESTORE OUR LOCALS. Capital Metro degraded service on our best corridors. Let's make them roll it back. M1EK’s Bake-Sale of Bile. Austin On Your Feet. USER STORY: RAPIDLY DECLINING. June 9, 2015. This post was contributed by a reader who frequently rides Capital Metro. The much-heralded “Metro Rapid” BRT service further screwed up the mobility of myself and other Austinites who are totally dependent upon public transit. Ironically, I had initially supported the Metro Rapid launch. Short changing ...

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mdahmus – Austin: RESTORE OUR LOCALS

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Austin: RESTORE OUR LOCALS. Capital Metro degraded service on our best corridors. Let's make them roll it back. M1EK’s Bake-Sale of Bile. Austin On Your Feet. USER STORY: RAPIDLY DECLINING. June 9, 2015. This post was contributed by a reader who frequently rides Capital Metro. The much-heralded “Metro Rapid” BRT service further screwed up the mobility of myself and other Austinites who are totally dependent upon public transit. Ironically, I had initially supported the Metro Rapid launch. Short changing ...

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Austin Contrarian

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Chris Bradford on Austin, economics and other stuff. January 28, 2017. How to preserve Austin's affordable housing stock. Wednesdays  Austin Monitor. 0160;had a piece under the headline, How do demolitions affect Austins affordable housing stock? The article glosses over the possibility that demolitions arent much affecting Austins affordable housing stock. An obvious challenge, however, is that a large percentage of the low-cost market-rate housing is older and likely to soon be demolished and replaced ...

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Introduction – Austin: RESTORE OUR LOCALS

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Austin: RESTORE OUR LOCALS. Capital Metro degraded service on our best corridors. Let's make them roll it back. M1EK’s Bake-Sale of Bile. Austin On Your Feet. May 3, 2015. May 14, 2015. Even after their frequencies were cut, these routes still achieve ridership higher than most of those proposed for the ‘frequent service network’ – so the riders have not taken the hint! Frequent service network proposal backup slide with arrows added by Mike Dahmus. How urbanists talk about transit →.

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O'Toole gets congestion pricing wrong - Austin Contrarian

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Chris Bradford on Austin, economics and other stuff. Laquo; Cheap houses. Downtown apartment owners should try this experiment ». March 26, 2009. O'Toole gets congestion pricing wrong. The New York Times recognizes that, even in New York City, transit is perpetually hungry for subsidies. The state’s proposed solutions are to toll the remaining free bridges into Manhattan and new payroll taxes, all to subsidize so-called sustainable transportation. But why should drivers pay to subsidize transit. But cong...

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Disconnectivity, illustrated - Austin Contrarian

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Chris Bradford on Austin, economics and other stuff. Laquo; South Lamar's getting a new pedestrian crossing, but it's in the wrong place. Good street networks do not emerge; they are designed ». March 09, 2015. Last Thursday, Council adopted a resolution. The general location (if not the precise alignment) of the Aldwyche extension is shown in blue below. For simplicitys sake, Ive included the small Barton Oaks neighborhood within the boundary of the South Lamar neighborhood, shown in blue.). Another way...

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South Lamar's getting a new pedestrian crossing, but it's in the wrong place - Austin Contrarian

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Chris Bradford on Austin, economics and other stuff. Laquo; The problem with South Lamar, in two minutes. Disconnectivity, illustrated ». February 16, 2015. South Lamar's getting a new pedestrian crossing, but it's in the wrong place. South Lamar is getting a pedestrian beacon across from the Birds Barber Shop/Black Sheep Lodge retail strip just south of Oltorf:. Before the retail center had fully developed. . It is nonetheless the. Crossings of the main street for the price of one, to wit:. There is cer...

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How urbanists talk about transit – Austin: RESTORE OUR LOCALS

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Austin: RESTORE OUR LOCALS. Capital Metro degraded service on our best corridors. Let's make them roll it back. M1EK’s Bake-Sale of Bile. Austin On Your Feet. How urbanists talk about transit. May 14, 2015. May 14, 2015. Two of the more pre-eminent local urbanist bloggers, within the last two days, posted these (excerpts mine):. Excerpt refers originally to a project on the 3/803 “good transit line”. Full post: “From 300 to 100000 […]” on “Austin On Your Feet”. How urbanists talk about transit. I moved t...

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Austin Contrarian: Urbanism

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Chris Bradford on Austin, economics and other stuff. March 25, 2016. Good street networks do not emerge; they are designed. The last time I blogged - a long, long time ago  - I wrote about the extreme disconnectedness of the South Lamar neighborhood. So it’s worth asking, Why didnt the South Lamar neighborhood develop a sensible street network? The area was annexed by the city. Below is an aerial photograph showing the neighborhood in 1954, shortly after its annexation by the city in 1951.  . The neighbo...