Tag Archives: Austin Strategic Mobility Plan
Austin gets a new comprehensive transportation plan
After passing the Austin Strategic Mobility Plan – the transportation piece of the Imagine Austin Comprehensive Plan – on an initial reading March 28, City Council unanimously approved the plan on second and third readings Thursday afternoon. According to the…
Transportation • By Ryan Thornton • Apr 12, 2019
Land use policy is driving mobility discussion
As the Austin Strategic Mobility Plan has made its rounds to various city boards and commissions over the previous month, conversations about transportation goals have consistently gravitated toward the great unknown question of land use code reform. Now that the…
Transportation • By Ryan Thornton • Apr 1, 2019
Planning commissioners push for more transit-oriented mobility plan
City Council is scheduled to take up the Austin Strategic Mobility Plan at its next meeting on March 28. In recent weeks, various city commissions have offered comments on the plan, which aims to shape city transportation policy over the…
Transportation • By Jack Craver • Mar 19, 2019
ASMP caught between pedestrian safety and need for speed
The city is promoting an everyone-wins approach to mobility in which maintaining, expanding and even adding car lanes is considered compatible with dramatically increasing use of other transportation modes per capita and cutting the number of annual traffic deaths and…
Transportation • By Ryan Thornton • Mar 8, 2019
ASMP roadway project strikes a nerve
The Austin Strategic Mobility Plan is already causing a stir in the community since being released Feb. 22. After a two-year process that allowed residents to comment on potential corridor projects, a handful of community members feel ignored by the…
Transportation • By Ryan Thornton • Mar 1, 2019
Austin’s Strategic Mobility Plan supports Cap Metro’s Project Connect
Austin’s Capital Metro recently released its revamped Project Connect plan, which it hopes to put before voters in 2020, and this time it has integrated its plans with the city’s overall strategy. The last time Austin laid out a transportation plan…
Transportation • By Jessi Devenyns • Nov 27, 2018
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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
Effort to move buses faster stalls at Urban Transportation Commission
Top local transportation planners on Tuesday tapped the brakes on an activist-crafted effort aimed at increasing transit use. At the monthly Urban Transportation Commission meeting, Transportation Director Rob Spillar, Corridor Program Implementation Office Director Mike Trimble and Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • May 12, 2017
Council gears up for mobility bond investments
City Council is on the verge of approving tens of millions of dollars to help jump-start the ambitious mobility bond program voters approved last November. The agenda holds a full six items that would cumulatively earmark $39 million for transportation…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • May 4, 2017
Mobility plan will prioritize transit
The collaborative effort to craft a transit priority policy is being rolled into the larger Austin Strategic Mobility Plan. Last Wednesday, Austin Transportation Department staff briefed the City Council Mobility Committee on their nearly year-old charge to put together a…
