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Transportation
Longtime VP Todd Hemingson to leave Capital Metro
After more than a decade with the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the agency’s executive vice president, Todd Hemingson, will step down Friday, July 26. His immediate plan, as he told the Monitor in an interview at the agency’s headquarters on…
Transit • By Ryan Thornton • Jul 22, 2019
Commission pushes for better mobility management around work zones
Despite the city’s plans for multimodal transportation infrastructure, proper bike lanes and fully accessible sidewalks are still a scarce public amenity in many parts of Austin. They are also often the first areas within the right of way to be…
Transportation • By Ryan Thornton • Jul 19, 2019
Travis County approves long-range transportation plan
At long last, Travis County has a long-range transportation plan. The Commissioners Court voted unanimously Tuesday to adopt the Travis County Transportation Blueprint, which lays out a vision for infrastructure in unincorporated parts of Travis County over the next quarter-century.…
Transportation • By Jack Craver • Jul 18, 2019
Advocates continue fighting for alternative solution to Oak Hill Parkway
While the Texas Department of Transportation prepares to initiate a request for proposals for the Oak Hill Parkway project at the intersection of U.S. Highway 290 and State Highway 71, local advocacy groups are still aiming to stop the project…
Roads • By Ryan Thornton • Jul 16, 2019
Transportation Department lays out plans for speed management
The Austin Transportation Department will ask City Council for $500,000 in new funding in the next budget to pay for a speed management program that will support Vision Zero’s goal to eliminate traffic deaths in the city. The funding would…
Transportation • By Chad Swiatecki • Jul 15, 2019
Council to mull funding for incentives to increase transit use
The Austin Transportation Department has delivered its findings to City Council on how the city could start small programs that would provide incentives to some riders of public transit. The report, which included 15 potential pilot programs, was given to…
Transit • By Chad Swiatecki • Jul 9, 2019
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Travis County, CAMPO luck out with shared-use path project
In a fortunate turn of events, the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization has found an appropriate use for $1,069,919 that could have slipped back into the state’s hands this year. The agency received notice only a few months ago that…
Transportation • By Ryan Thornton • Jul 2, 2019
Ford launches mobility challenge to address health in East Austin
Ford Motor Co. initiated an eight-month mobility challenge Monday to identify and fund ideas that could help East Austin residents access the resources necessary for a healthy lifestyle. “We just celebrated as a company our 116th birthday,” said Jeff Jones,…
Transportation • By Ryan Thornton • Jun 25, 2019
Capital Metro sets out to better define Project Connect
The Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority is moving into the second of six phases leading up to a possible 2020 referendum on Project Connect. With preliminary engineering contracts already awarded for the two high-capacity routes and the board set to award…
Transit • By Ryan Thornton • Jun 17, 2019
Street impact fees making their way back to Council
Austin Transportation is proposing a one-time street impact fee for new developments to help the city pay for its growth in an equitable and transparent way. After releasing a draft study earlier this week explaining how fees would be calculated…
Transportation • By Ryan Thornton • Jun 14, 2019
Price tag to fix Shoal Creek landslide balloons
After more than a year of negotiations with property owners over how to repair a landslide along Shoal Creek, the city of Austin is moving ahead with the project – but it could cost millions more than initially thought. In…
Bicycles • By Mose Buchele, KUT • Jun 13, 2019
CAMPO commits to study for Bergstrom Spur urban trail, transit corridor
The Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization approved an interlocal agreement with the city of Austin Monday for a transportation planning study of the Bergstrom Spur corridor in Southeast Austin. The agency’s Transportation Policy Board approved $280,000 for the study in…
