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After two dockless scooter companies launch in Austin, city speeds up rule process
Jumping the gun works, it seems. While city staff was devising a pilot program to govern dockless bikes and scooters, expecting to bring a proposal to Council members in June, two companies dropped their electric scooters throughout the city. Now…
Transportation • By Audrey McGlinchy, KUT • Apr 17, 2018
Project Connect's big hopes hinge on small investment
Project Connect’s path to an estimated $8 billion worth of high-capacity transit investments could be washed out if City Council and Austin voters don’t greenlight a $15 million installment this year, according to the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s director of…
Transit • By Caleb Pritchard • Apr 17, 2018
Council revisits draft Corridor Construction Program during work session
Tuesday’s City Council work session featured a swap of information between city staff and Council members regarding the draft Corridor Construction Program. Council delayed a vote on the draft program at its March 22 meeting. That vote set the stage…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Apr 12, 2018
CAMPO discusses travel demand management
Funding for programs that focus on freeing up existing roadway capacity may yet make the cut in a draft program of regional mobility projects under consideration by the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization. CAMPO staff’s initial recommendation for the organization’s…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Apr 10, 2018
Dockless scooter company takes flight in Austin
For the third time in four years, a brand-new technology-enabled transportation company has set up shop on Austin’s streets without seeking the city’s official blessing. On Thursday morning, the California-based company known as Bird released what one company official described…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Apr 6, 2018
Dockless bike-sharing issues surface at city forum
After more than a yearlong absence, dockless bike-sharing returned to downtown Austin on Wednesday, if only for a few hours. Representatives from nine different firms that dabble in dockless technology brought their wares and their pitches to the new Central…
Bicycles • By Caleb Pritchard • Apr 5, 2018
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Green Line creeps forward at Commissioners Court
The Travis County Commissioners Court voted in a split decision on Tuesday to initiate a study of potential financing options for the proposed commuter rail line between Austin and Manor known as the Green Line. The move marks a small…
Transit • By Caleb Pritchard • Apr 4, 2018
CAMPO offers the region a TIP
The Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization is taking a draft proposal for more than $400 million worth of transportation projects out for public feedback. CAMPO assembled this latest iteration of the four-year Transportation Improvement Program, or TIP, from a list…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Apr 2, 2018
B-cycle's UT expansion a towering success
When Austin B-cycle expanded its reach into the University of Texas campus area last month, its executive director predicted it would be a big success. It turns out his expectations were too low. “Forty days into this, and we’re where…
Bicycles • By Caleb Pritchard • Mar 30, 2018
Project Connect's new system map remains mode agnostic
The Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Monday officially debuted Project Connect’s latest draft system map, a plan that charts a regional network of potential high-capacity transit investments. A series of multicolored lines trace major corridors, both established and developing, that…
Transit • By Caleb Pritchard • Mar 27, 2018
Dockless bike-share pilot development rolls forward
More than a year after an aborted attempt to move into Austin without permission, several dockless bike-sharing companies have switched gears and are now patiently working with the Transportation Department as it develops a pilot program that could put the…
Bicycles • By Caleb Pritchard • Mar 26, 2018
Council positioned to delay corridor program decision
City Council appears all but certain to postpone a scheduled vote on Thursday on the draft Corridor Construction Program, the highly ambitious blueprint for spending an unprecedented amount of bond money in a particularly condensed time frame. During Tuesday’s work…
