Commute.ly Helps Predict Local Commute Times

Local site aggregates past traffic to help you get there on time

"...just how bad is it? Homegrown online traffic forecaster Commute.ly is here to answer that very question...."

Jan. 29, 2016 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Bedside Manner: Tales From the Commute

What's crowning Jay Trachtenberg's bedside table

Nov. 1, 2010 Books Post by Jay Trachtenberg

Bully

The documentary Bully is devastatingly effective when it comes to putting faces on harassed children and giving them a voice.

"...slip of a girl so brutalized by the school-bus commute that one day she brandished a loaded gun and..."

April 13, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Black Robe

"...and “the word of God” to the tribes who commute along the northern waterways. He is accompanied by a..."

Nov. 22, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Student Researchers Test New "Air" Transportation

Possible hyperloop railway may offer easier commute

"...Think your morning commute down I-35 or MoPac is bad? Try spending more..."

Aug. 3, 2017 Screens Post by Victoria Mycue

Green Events: Sept. 28-Oct. 3

"...forget to break out your weird for Friday's Weirdest Commute Contest, and do check out the new Environmental Expo..."

Sept. 27, 2007 Columns Post

Letters at 3AM

We take cars for granted, yet people have been living like this only a short time, and, when this era exhausts itself, people may never live like this again. What will they think of us, I wonder.

"...booth. A few more miles of a million mile commute. He is one of us, desiring, wasting. He is..."

June 10, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Getting off the Road

Rail will help, roads will help – but so will your decision not to drive today

"...nonprofit that's found across the country, help employers and commuters reduce car trips in a particular geographic area. And..."

June 27, 2014 News Feature by Robyn Ross

City, Bike Shops Team Up to Help Bike Commuters

COA staffers and shop employees set up "commute stations" Thursday

"...alternate Thursdays through December to help and encourage bicycle commuters. Press release from the city after the jump:..."

Sept. 30, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols

What, Me Ride the Bus?

"...and relied exclusively on public transportation for my daily commute when I worked there. I used bus, rapid rail,..."

Aug. 8, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Statesman Transportation Writer Can't Read Road Signs

You'd think that would be a prerequisite for the job.

"...to encourage southwest Austinites to use Loop 1 to commute to work. But the Austin American-Statesman's transportation columnist Ben..."

Aug. 20, 2007 News Post by Lee Nichols

Rep. John Bucy III on the 86th Texas Legislature

“We’ve got to do everything we can to keep attention on Medicaid expansion”

"...the other major issues for us is transportation. The commute is insane, and many of our people commute into..."

Jan. 4, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...• Also in local environmental news, September is Commute Solutions Month, and organizations across Central Texas are making..."

Sept. 1, 2006 News Feature

Y Not?

The battle over AMD's move to Lantana is a one-tract skirmish in a larger war over the uncertain future of Central Texas

"...the southwest, so moving to Lantana will save 10,000 commute miles a day. (AMD can point to a history..."

June 24, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...As part of its Commute Solutions Month programming, Capital Metro will hold its first..."

Oct. 22, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Commuters Destroy Air Quality..."

March 28, 2003 Column

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Our readers talk back.

"...involve participation in programs to reduce the number of commuters driving alone to work. However, without widespread participation, strategies..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Column

Location, Location, Location

AISD is moving its administrative offices from West Sixth Street to Highway 290. Why would any government entity do that?

"...raised by some staffers. "If you're talking about a commute of someone who's making 50 or 60 thousand dollars,..."

Jan. 26, 2018 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Randall Stephens: 'I Can Handle the Job'

"...Anderson Mill Lane. We're now in Avery Ranch. My commute [Avery Ranch to ABIA] is about as long as..."

May 30, 2014 News Feature

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...MetroRail, the new Leander to Downtown Austin commuter rail, will finally begin service on March 30, 2009,..."

Oct. 10, 2008 News Feature

The Smog Cometh

Alternative transportation programs help keep Austin in line

"...can participate through on-site greening tactics as well as alt-commute strategies like car- and van-pooling, public transit, bicycling, telecommuting,..."

April 25, 2008 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

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Our readers talk back.

"...is woefully downtown-centric, and those who neither reside or commute to our city's center are left with few options,..."

June 16, 2006 Column

Headbutting Over AMD Development Continues

Were traffic study's numbers dishonest?

"...real estate firm Staubach & Associates, compared actual employees' commutes to Lantana and to the "existing" site, and found..."

Sept. 23, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

No Mercy

The case of James Allridge raises familiar questions about the Texas justice system

"...Board of Pardons and Paroles and Gov. Rick Perry commute Allridge's death sentence to life behind bars...."

Aug. 20, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Postmarks

Differing takes on Town Lake going Greek; too many zeros for Babich; and the Chronicle film reviewers take another hit.

"...I have not participated in such a lengthy Austin commute, my experience of riding the Metro-rail when I was..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Column

Public Notice

It's International Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Awareness Day and Discover Commute Solutions Month!

"...can become less car-bound as well. September is Discover Commute Solutions Month, a 30-day-long attempt to encourage commuters to..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Column by Kate X Messer

More Lanes, More Problems

"...money’s worth. While in the first couple of years, commute times dropped slightly, they soon went back up. Some..."

June 26, 2023 Postmarks

The Joy of Bicycling in Austin

A one-person sociological study of springtime biking where every ride is his favorite

"...Dr. Robbie Napper, who categorized bike trips thusly: recreation, commute, work, sport, passenger, and tasks/errands. And, famously, Portland Bicycle..."

April 21, 2023 Arts Feature by Kevin Curtin

Texas Tests Limits of Death Penalty With Mentally Ill Man on Death Row

"[The] applicant is clearly 'crazy,' but he is also 'sane' under Texas law."

"...that they recommend to Gov. Greg Abbott that he commute Thomas' sentence to life in prison. Seventy-seven of the..."

March 24, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Cap Metro Wants Its Pre-Pandemic Groove Back

Everything’s in flux with new ridership, new leadership, new routes

"...to get him to work. In total, his daily commute from Southeast to Southwest Austin takes about an hour..."

Nov. 18, 2022 News Feature by Benton Graham

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