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Big doubts loom over Adler's big bond
With just one more regular meeting before its July break, City Council appears far from reaching any clear consensus on dueling mobility bond proposals. “Essentially, what we’re all struggling with is a balance,” Council Member Ann Kitchen told her colleagues…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Jun 17, 2016
Council approves law barring many former offenders from driving for taxi companies, TNCs
City Council approved an ordinance that will bar many convicted of low-level criminal offenses from operating a taxi or driving for transportation network companies such as Uber and Lyft for many years after their offense. Those convicted of certain felony…
Transportation • By Jack Craver • Jun 17, 2016
CTRMA goes shopping for partner to build SH 45 SW
The Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority on Tuesday took another major step toward the construction of a highly controversial road project in southwestern Travis County. With a vote of 6-0, its board of directors directed CTRMA staff to start shopping…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Jun 16, 2016
Mobility Committee balks at Adler's bond recommendation
In the race among the growing list of proposals for a November bond referendum, City Council’s Mobility Committee jockeyed into the lead on Tuesday evening a dark-horse recommendation. With a vote of 4-0, the committee endorsed Council Member Ann Kitchen’s…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Jun 15, 2016
Council members float mobility bond alternatives
Three members of City Council have floated two separate alternatives to Mayor Steve Adler’s $720 million mobility bond proposal. On Monday, Council Member Ann Kitchen’s office posted on the Council Message Board a draft resolution for a significantly pared-down vision…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Jun 15, 2016
Uber and Lyft swing by the Legislature
Uber and Lyft were back in Austin on Wednesday afternoon for a rambling hearing at the State Capitol that also featured several upstart competitors, representatives from friendly and not-so-friendly cities and at least one NFL Hall of Famer. The State…
Texas State Legislature • By Caleb Pritchard • Jun 9, 2016
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How an Austin taxi co-op would work
At Black Star Co-op in North Austin, workers take food and drink orders, doling out burgers and beers on a recent weekday. Ask who owns the place, and the response might confound you: the members, or a select number of…
Transportation • By Audrey McGlinchy, KUT • Jun 9, 2016
Lonesome whistle blows for Lone Star Rail
An ailing effort to run passenger rail from the Austin area to San Antonio might only have two months left to live. On Monday night, the head of the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization’s Transportation Policy Board suggested that he…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Jun 8, 2016
Planning Commission wants bond to focus on car alternatives
It’s far from clear if Austin voters will end up approving any mobility bond, let alone the $720 million measure floated by Mayor Steve Adler. But if the city does get the nod from voters for a once-in-a-generation increase in…
Transportation • By Jack Craver • Jun 7, 2016
Lone Star Rail pulls into CAMPO meeting tonight
The Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization is once again putting the Lone Star Rail District, or LSTAR, under the microscope on Monday evening. CAMPO’s Transportation Policy Board is set to discuss recent moves that have been made to get the…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Jun 6, 2016
Austin Monitor Radio: Smart City challenge
LBJ School professor Sherri Greenberg joins Austin Monitor publisher Mike Kanin to chat about the City of Austin’s Smart City challenge application. This show is sponsored by Austin Water. It is embedded below.
Radio • By Michael Kanin • Jun 6, 2016
Light rail proposal joins mobility bond discussion
As City Council members careen toward their first chat with the public over a potentially massive mobility bond, a new proposal for light rail investment has risen up from the grassroots. On Thursday, the nonprofit Central Austin Community Development Corporation…
