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County adopts sidewalk fee-in-lieu program
Developers in unincorporated Travis County will now pay the price for not building sidewalks. On Tuesday, the Commissioners Court approved changes that will establish a sidewalk fee-in-lieu program similar to the one operated by the city of Austin. Chapter 82…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Dec 6, 2017
Final Guadalupe plan hits the streets
At long last, the city’s shortest corridor has its plan. The Austin Transportation Department today released the much-anticipated Guadalupe Corridor Plan, a 66-page document that calls for a multimodal revolution along the Drag. As expected, the document recommends the conversion…
Roads • By Caleb Pritchard • Dec 5, 2017
Research hopes to fill in the gaps for bicycle and pedestrian data
Traffic is terrible. City and state officials are really good at counting cars to see how terrible traffic is and how it got that way, but that sort of data-collection infrastructure doesn’t exist for bike and pedestrian data. New research…
Bicycles • By Andrew Weber, KUT • Dec 5, 2017
Smart Mobility Roadmap draft begins its tour of boards and commissions
Two of the human minds behind Austin’s robot car roadmap rolled into City Council chambers on Wednesday evening to show the fruits of their work to the city’s Joint Sustainability Committee. Karla Taylor, Austin Transportation Department chief of staff, and…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Dec 1, 2017
Capital Metro sticks with ultralow-ridership line in Manor
The Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority is moving full speed ahead with its plans to prioritize frequency over geographic coverage, but the agency’s commitment to that principle isn’t total. The recent adoption of the contentious June 2018 service changes that eliminated…
Transit • By Caleb Pritchard • Nov 28, 2017
Environmental concerns delay city action on upcoming MoPac project
Several City Council members want more information about the planned expansion of MoPac Expressway before they sign off on a key funding agreement with the Texas Department of Transportation. Council voted 9-2 at its Nov. 9 meeting to postpone an…
Roads • By Caleb Pritchard • Nov 21, 2017
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Priscilla Jove, 19, sat cross-legged on a bench at a bus stop on the corner of West Oltorf Street and South Lamar Boulevard Saturday afternoon. A biology student at Austin Community College, Jove was headed out to study. She said…
Transit • By Audrey McGlinchy, KUT • Nov 20, 2017
Transit priority is a top priority for Project Connect
Project Connect is doomed unless the city hands over dedicated right of way. That was the message relayed by Javier Arguello, long range planning director for the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority, to the city’s Urban Transportation Commission on Tuesday night.…
Transit • By Caleb Pritchard • Nov 17, 2017
Capital Metro board approves major renovation of its bus network
The first time was all it took for the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s contentious June 2018 service changes. The sweeping overhaul of the transit agency’s bus network earned the board of directors’ stamp of approval on Wednesday, avoiding the months…
Transit • By Caleb Pritchard • Nov 16, 2017
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…
