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Tag Archives: Transportation Department
Council reopens path to chauffeur's permit for many criminal offenders
City Council took action on Thursday that could help put some disqualified taxi and transportation network company drivers back on Austin roads. The amendment to the city code tweaked an existing ordinance that Council passed in June that restricted many…
City Council • By Caleb Pritchard • Dec 16, 2016
Corridor plans could yield new traffic law, but buses might not benefit as promised
Mayor Steve Adler’s sales pitch for his successful $720 million transportation bond promised the creation of new bus pullouts along major city corridors so that, in his words, “cars can keep on going when the bus pulls over.” Transit advocates…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Dec 13, 2016
Speed limits going down on parts of Lamar and Parmer
The Texas Department of Transportation is moving to reduce speed limits on sections of two busy roadways in Austin. At least one City Council member, however, is hoping the city can go further than what the state agency put forward…
Roads • By Jack Craver • Dec 1, 2016
Beneath the bond debate, planners begin exhaustive assessment of Austin's transportation future
As Austin voters wrangle with a mobility bond on the November ballot, city planners are gearing up to draft a new transportation policy road map to guide decisions for decades to come. Work on the Strategic Mobility Plan soft-launched earlier…
Planning • By Caleb Pritchard • Oct 11, 2016
Proposal to kick cars off downtown street yields a surprise
A proposal to move cars off of two downtown blocks would have a surprising benefit to late-night congestion, according to the Austin Transportation Department. Transportation Department staff told the City Council Mobility Committee on Wednesday that accommodating the Capital Metropolitan…
Roads • By Caleb Pritchard • Oct 6, 2016
Grove memos defend city process
A lengthy series of memos defending the city’s review of the Grove at Shoal Creek planned unit development emerged yesterday, and it could set the stage for the case returning to City Council later this month. Attorney Jeff Howard, who…
City Hall • By Elizabeth Pagano • Sep 14, 2016
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Austin loses Smart City bid to Columbus
It appears that United States Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx has decided that Austin is not a Smart City. On Tuesday, Ohio’s two members of the U.S. Senate announced that their state capital, Columbus, won the U.S. Department of Transportation’s…
Austin • By Caleb Pritchard • Jun 22, 2016
Council OKs contract for impact fee study
With City Council Member Don Zimmerman opposed, Council voted 7-1 Thursday to award a $1.18 million contract for a transportation impact fee study to Kimley-Horn and Associates Inc. in anticipation of adopting developer impact fees to pay for street improvements…
City Council • By Jo Clifton • Jun 10, 2016
CodeNEXT leader: City adding costs to code rewrite
The chair of the citizens group advising the city of Austin on the rewrite of the city’s land-use regulations has voiced concerns that the contract for the project, known as CodeNEXT, is being used as a “mothership on which to…
City Hall • By Jo Clifton • Jun 8, 2016
Some confusion at Austin's first ride-hailing driver fair
Former full-time Uber and Lyft driver Kurt Wagenman showed up to Austin’s first transportation network company (TNC) driver fair on Tuesday with a misleading email in his inbox. “As the city has mentioned, (fingerprinting) will be free for now,” read…
Transportation • By Audrey McGlinchy, KUT • May 18, 2016
Austin's Vision Zero plan begins final march to Council
The city of Austin’s Vision Zero plan continued its final parade through boards and commissions Monday with a visit to the Public Safety Commission. And while some commissioners were dissatisfied with the 94-page document, others had little to say. “About…
Transportation • By Audrey McGlinchy, KUT • May 3, 2016
City launches affordable parking program, raises meter rates
In a striking display of balance, the city’s Transportation Department will both raise downtown parking meter rates and launch a pilot program that aims to ease parking burdens for downtown service industry workers – all in one fell swoop. First,…
