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Transportation
Cap Metro plan up for a vote today
The Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board of Directors is set to vote today on a major overhaul of its bus system. If approved, the changes would take effect in June, changing more than half of all routes in the area.…
Transit • By Syeda Hasan • Nov 15, 2017
Park-and-ride plan rides again
Regional transportation planners have resurfaced an effort to build parking lots for suburban bus commuters that fell off the radar earlier this year. On Wednesday, the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority Board of Directors learned that the complicated funding strategy…
Transit • By Caleb Pritchard • Nov 13, 2017
Southern corridor plans near finish line
The race to put together a road map of corridor spending from 2016’s mobility bond election is close to wrapping up its southern leg. After a condensed, accelerated effort that began in June, the city’s Corridor Program Office has made…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Nov 9, 2017
Capital Metro no longer counting on ambitious I-35 bus plan
The Texas Department of Transportation’s big new plans for Interstate 35 through Austin may be the end of the road for the local transit agency’s hopes for bus rapid transit on the highway. “We don’t know for sure at this…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Nov 3, 2017
Capital Metro board treated to an earful at two public hearings
The Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s board of directors sat through hours of public testimony on Wednesday, much of it critical of the agency’s proposed bus network redesign. In fact, the board scheduled two separate public hearings, one in the early…
Transit • By Caleb Pritchard • Nov 2, 2017
Watson presents a new plan for I-35
State Sen. Kirk Watson unveiled a radical vision for the future of Central Austin on Monday: No more dual decks on Interstate 35. Watson’s speech before the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce marked the debut of a new plan concocted…
Roads • By Caleb Pritchard • Oct 31, 2017
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Downtown leaders eye busing changes to manage traffic growth
Downtown Austin leaders are hoping that proposed changes in downtown routes and frequency for Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus service will increase the number of employers in the city’s core willing to offer alternative transportation plans for their employees in…
Transportation • By Chad Swiatecki • Oct 30, 2017
Vacancies, lack of interest put Capital Metro's customer advisory committees in the hot seat
The two committees intended to provide user feedback to the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s board of directors could be cruising toward a makeover. At Monday’s monthly board meeting, Chair Wade Cooper and Council Member Ann Kitchen expressed concerns about vacancies…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Oct 27, 2017
Capital Metro board hears about proposed changes to proposed changes
The Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority is making adjustments to a long-planned massive overhaul of its fixed-route bus network just weeks ahead of a scheduled vote on the sweeping changes by the board of directors. During an extended work session on…
Transit • By Caleb Pritchard • Oct 25, 2017
Corridor Program Office still preparing road map for voter-approved roadwork
As the first year of its eight-year timeline draws to a close, Austin’s Corridor Program Office is closing in on major milestones in its mad dash to put together the road map that will guide the voter-approved overhaul of several…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Oct 24, 2017
CAMPO greenlights MoKan study
The Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization Transportation Policy Board on Monday evening signed off on a plan to spend $500,000 to study the viability of the MoKan corridor, the largely unused swath of right of way that stretches from Williamson…
Roads • By Caleb Pritchard • Oct 20, 2017
Council to take up street impact fees today
In an effort to help fund public infrastructure made necessary by new development, the Austin Transportation Department is proposing new street impact fees throughout the city. These one-time fees for developers constructing new sites are intended to help pay for…
