Will the Third Time Be a Charm for an Austin Rail System?

Project Connect looks to help make connections

"...That's why the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (CAMPO), which guides the region's long-range transportation policy and spending,..."

Sept. 25, 2020 News Feature by Jack Craver

Public Notice: Good City, Bad City

City staff does some things right, some things wrong

"...to the four-year Transportation Improvement Program and the long-range CAMPO 2040 Plan. You can see those proposed amendments, and..."

Sept. 2, 2016 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Parkway or Super Highway?

Proposed TxDOT design could force residents out, uproot historic trees

"...toll road, because the project is described in the CAMPO 2040 plan as "a six-lane tolled turnpike with frontage..."

July 31, 2015 News Feature by Vicki Wolf

Public Notice: Bikes, Toll Roads, TNCs

A miscellany of mostly transportation

"...changed their vision of the regional long-range transportation plan (CAMPO 2040) to add four new toll lanes on MoPac..."

May 1, 2015 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Getting off the Road

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

"...a central command center for TDM – the city, CAMPO, TxDOT, and the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce all..."

June 27, 2014 News Feature by Robyn Ross

Lee Leffingwell: 'Think Long-Range'

The incumbent mayor defends his record

"...I'm chair of the Transit Working Group, a CAMPO [Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization] committee that has stakeholders..."

April 27, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

Transportation Plan

Share your thoughts at a series of upcoming public meetings hosted by CAMPO

"...That strategy would apply across a five-county region, as CAMPO recently expanded its reach (and representation) to include Travis,..."

March 19, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Where Cap Metro Jumped the Track

Cap Metro's new interim CEO tells CAMPO what's what

"...Allen told the TWG, a rail advisory committee to CAMPO, the group of elected officials that guides transportation planning..."

Oct. 23, 2009 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Developing Stories: The State Eyes an Eastern Campus

And about that regional plan …?

"...soon, and thus likely will be in the 2035 CAMPO long-range plan. That plan – to be publicly aired..."

May 15, 2009 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond

"...board, both projects are likely to be incorporated into CAMPO's long-range plan – a necessity for federal approval and..."

Dec. 19, 2008 News Feature

Financial Fudgery

"...13, in item No. 7 is an agreement between CAMPO and the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority to skip..."

Oct. 13, 2008 Postmarks

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...The city of Austin – supposedly hot to get CAMPO approval for a Downtown streetcar – had known for..."

June 27, 2008 News Feature

Streetcar Dreams Deferred

Now what?

"...the city answer the exacting questions on the new CAMPO Transportation Invest­ment Decision Tree, consultant ROMA Austin is continuing..."

May 23, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

New Rail Plan Rolled Out

The latest line on streetcars

"...presentation to City Council May 8 and to the CAMPO group May 12. The ambitious goal is to take..."

April 25, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Where's the Streetcar?

"...been facilitating recent weekly sessions to craft a better CAMPO "decision tree" process – toward Watson's oft-stated goals of..."

April 11, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

How 'Green' Is the Transit Working Group?

Members tasked with revising decision-making process used in evaluating toll road package

"...its "Decision Tree" for evaluating proposals from transit agencies. CAMPO board Chair Sen. Kirk Watson is facilitating the sessions..."

March 21, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Hold Those Tolls!

Road conditions: funding hazy, future unclear

"...chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee. At his suggestion, CAMPO indefinitely postponed any talk of a second phase of..."

July 27, 2007 News Feature by Larry Schooler

Naked City

"...where the biggest looming issue is finances. At a CAMPO work session last week, Cap Metro's chief of staff,..."

July 20, 2007 News Feature

Naked City

"...a work session on Monday that all members of CAMPO's joint powers agreement have signed off on proposed changes..."

March 9, 2007 News Feature

Naked City

"...a Wednesday-night hearing on the Phase II toll plan. CAMPO Executive Director Michael Aulick said the meeting of the..."

Jan. 19, 2007 News Feature

His Opinion Is Different From Mine, So He Is a Corrupt Monster

"...coverage [“Naked City,” News, Sept. 15] of planning efforts (CAMPO's and Envision Central Texas') and lauding SH 130. When..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Postmarks

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Our readers talk back.

"...$2 to $3 per gallon to avoid toll roads. CAMPO's estimate was that it would take 2 cents per..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Column

PODER Working to Defeat Toll Roads

"...$2 to $3 per gallon to avoid toll roads. CAMPO's estimate was that it would take 2 cents per..."

Aug. 21, 2006 Postmarks

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"...proposing. Not only will the Fix290 Coalition's alternative satisfy CAMPO's mobility requirements, it will do so at a lower..."

June 23, 2006 Column

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...the $18 billion shortfall projected only two years ago. CAMPO also has a list of short-term unfunded projects –..."

June 9, 2006 News Feature

Can the Y Be Fixed?

"Community alliance" of Oak Hill residents, anti-toll activists, and Austin environmentalists gets first shot next week at convincing CAMPO to reconsider TXDOT's plans for the "Y"

"...gets its first shot next week at convincing the CAMPO Transportation Policy Board – meeting Monday, June 12 at..."

June 9, 2006 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Defending a 290 Toll

Engineer over US 290 West project through Oak Hill sticks up for future toll project

"...a parkway, however, would require a revision to the CAMPO 2030 plan, which can only come from CAMPO's Transportation..."

May 12, 2006 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Cyber-Arithmetic

"...the proposed $1.25 billion in toll and highway paving CAMPO has planned for the Barton Springs Watershed, we can..."

April 26, 2006 Postmarks

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"...At its June meeting, CAMPO released information that building all of our proposed toll..."

July 1, 2005 Column

Walking in Ignorance

"...may help heal the division. At its June meeting, CAMPO released information that building all of our proposed toll..."

June 17, 2005 Postmarks

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