Thar She Glows: What’s Up With the Signal at Fourth and I-35?

Amid big transportation change, small tweaks make an impact

"...Bike lanes and sidewalks are popping up all over Austin. Look no..."

July 26, 2024 News Feature by Benton Graham

Lunar New Year Parties, OUTsider Fest, and More Recommended Community Events

Get out the vote and more this week

"...C’mon y’all freaks and geeks: Austin’s premier transmedia festival dedicated to bold creativity..."

Feb. 16, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Gone and Quartered

Stiffed on Capital Metro money, the city scrambles to fund another $51 million in transportation projects

"...Pleasant Valley Road is a corridor the city of Austin has planned to improve for at least a decade...."

April 16, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

“Reimagining” APD and Its Huge Budget Starts Now

City Council and the city manager try to move away from policing, but is it enough?

"...spending plan includes $11.3 million in cuts to the Austin Police Department's base budget, of which $3.2 million is..."

July 24, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

How ERCOT and the City Are Preparing for the Next Winter Storm

Mayor: "We should anticipate that we will have a big weather event"

"...that it is "not projecting emergency conditions this winter and expects to have adequate resources to meet demand." They..."

Dec. 8, 2023 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Austin's First Bike Corral Installed Without a Peep

Innovative bike parking hits Red River to almost no buzz

"...most likely haven't heard about it; the city of Austin's first bike corral – an innovative on-street bike parking..."

June 6, 2011 News Post by Ramon Martinez

Austin's Transportation Future: What Will It Look Like in 2033?

Highways, headless horsemen, and high-speed trains: The ghost of our transportation future

"...A train traveling over 200 miles per hour from Austin to Dallas. A car driving down I-35 with nobody..."

Nov. 10, 2023 News Feature by Benton Graham

Public Notice: What Goes Around ...

This week's news sounds suspiciously familiar

"...To recap, in case you missed last week's episode, and presented for your consideration without comment: Uber and Lyft..."

March 20, 2015 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Austin Street Art Enters Into a New Era

With the city cracking down on graffiti and Hope Outdoor Gallery set to close, artists look for permission to paint

"...It's 2pm, broad daylight, and a young man with a bandanna masking his face..."

July 27, 2018 News Feature by Kate Groetzinger

Boom and Gloom

Austin's Budget Struggles to Keep Up

"...taxed by this year's budget process. photograph by John Anderson Last year, when we wrote about the city budget,..."

Aug. 22, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Public Notice: Mobility for All

Three visions for our transportation future

"...by itself, its reach is limited: Unless you live, and work, and shop within a few blocks of a..."

Sept. 30, 2022 News Column by Nick Barbaro

As Austin's I-35 Mess Gains National Attention, the City Refocuses on the Palm District

Applying an "equity lens" to reimagine the blocks alongside Austin's gnarliest highway

"...For the second time in three years, Austin's unbeloved Interstate 35 has been "recognized" by the influential..."

June 4, 2021 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

What's Wrong with Public Housing?

The remarkable turnaround of the city's Housing Authority

"...June 29, 1939: Accompanied by Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson and Mayor Tom Miller, the first families move into the..."

Aug. 31, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

CodeNEXT Wrecks Austin

Or did Austin wreck CodeNEXT?

"...the body's deliberations begin with the first of two public hearings this week. And after six years, three drafts..."

May 25, 2018 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Sustainable Transportation Tidbits

A Yellow Bike Project update

"...Austin's Yellow Bike Project is a local, all-volunteer nonprofit whose..."

Nov. 16, 2007 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

City Beautification for Public, Darker Matters Behind Closed Doors

City Council notes

"...up its room, doodling mash notes to dreamy South Austin, and discarding the playthings members rapidly outgrew. With council's..."

Oct. 7, 2005 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Pedestrian Bridge: Separate and Equal

"...Though the city's Public Works department paid consultants $340,000 to develop options for..."

Oct. 11, 1996 News Feature

The Past, Present, and Future of Waller and Shoal Creeks

Finally doing right by Austin's waterways

"...the apartments where the ice plant used to be, and downstairs into the ditch. It's crowded, cold, and dark..."

Nov. 30, 2018 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

UPDATED: Austin Aquarium Gets the Fisheye

Owners’ checkered past raises red flags; city says no animals on site

"...for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, asking two city departments to investigate goings-on at the proposed Austin Aquarium, the..."

Aug. 26, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

Keeping Austin Wild

As the population swells, officials and activists look for ways to preserve open space

"...by visiting one. On a recent sweltering day, I wandered down the Scottish Woods entrance to the western edge..."

July 8, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Public Notice: Think Globally, Act Locally

Planning for mobility, hoping for democracy

"...The Ukrainian resistance has been spirited and surprisingly successful thus far, but military experts still seem..."

March 18, 2022 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Cool Austin, Cool Planet

This Earth Day, the ambitious Austin Climate Protection Plan celebrates a first year of slow, quiet, but impressive progress

"...than a year – do you know where your Austin Climate Protection Plan is?..."

April 18, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Council: The Public Weighs In

Budget priorities continue to be debated

"...staging area, in return for converting the tract into parkland to be integrated into the master plan of the..."

Aug. 28, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

How Austin Is Tackling Homelessness on the Street and at City Hall

More shelters, more beds, and more fights about ordinances ahead

"...Page was at an appointment with a medic from Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services' Community Health team when the..."

Aug. 2, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Developing Stories: Private Projects, Public Benefits

Could developers become Austin's new benefactors?

"...Austin has begun to wise up about how much developers..."

April 6, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Fun, Healthy, and Green

A profile of the practice and business of pedicabbing

"...easier. It's not just the farewell to extreme heat and relentless rainfall; last summer was particularly difficult for Austin's..."

Dec. 28, 2007 News Feature by Sofia Resnick

In Austin, Safety Comes at a (Too) High Price

The city's inflated budgets may have left Austin ped / bike projects empty-handed.

"...Recently the Texas Dept. of Transportation announced the 27 projects that have won funding for..."

March 21, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Both Roads and Transit

Central Austin roads are at capacity, and we need to find better ways to move

"..."Reduce driver frustration." While the city Transportation Department's new Austin Mobility Program has other noble goals..."

Sept. 4, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Transportation Budget at The Crossroads

"...To the Public Works and Transportation Department (PWTD), the issue is simple...."

Aug. 11, 1995 News Feature

Mike Martinez: 'Leadership of Austin's Tomorrow'

"...Austin Chronicle: You've emphasized in your campaign that you're "a..."

May 30, 2014 News Feature

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