City and Cap Metro Contemplate How to Make a "Real City” Transit System

Following the slow march toward a vote on a multibillion-dollar investment in public transit

"...city and the transit authority emphasized how the plan envisioned by the Project Connect effort – with a price..."

Jan. 17, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Vision Villains?

The director of Vision Village project pleads guilty for failing to monitor the doomed venture.

"...But last week's dramatic turn of events in the Vision Village case may suggest otherwise...."

Oct. 4, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

Tunnel Vision

The New Waller Creek

"...Feds, this time via that most celebrated pork-barrel delivery system of modern times, the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act,..."

July 12, 1996 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Public Notice: Zilker Park Vision Still Cloudy

It’s hard planning for the future, when humans insist on living in the present

"...presented the latest iteration of the Zilker Metropolitan Park Vision Plan Tuesday night, Feb. 15, to a Zoom crowd..."

Feb. 18, 2022 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Opinion: The Zilker Vision Plan Is Deeply Flawed and Should Be Scrapped

The newly released draft plan is a recipe for how to ruin a park

"...about the park," with the newly unveiled draft Zilker Vision Plan you have an unequivocal answer: Yes. The overarching..."

Dec. 23, 2022 Column by David Weinberg

APD's Early Warning System for Reckless and Aggressive Officers Is Broken. Is It Worth Fixing?

Falling into the GAP

"...public safety," it would be useful to have a system to identify which officers need help learning to use..."

Aug. 27, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

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

Project Connect looks to help make connections

"...A mobility system that depends so heavily on people driving alone also..."

Sept. 25, 2020 News Feature by Jack Craver

Then There's This: A Farr Vision For Colony Park

Chosen consultant vows to 'plan with the whole person in mind'

"...its local partner Urban Design Group to create a vision for a sustainable, affordable mixed-use development on 208 acres..."

July 12, 2013 News Column by Amy Smith

A Shared Vision

MM Pack reports on the combination of generosity and hard work that built the Institute of Hospitality & Culinary Arts at Travis High School.

"...the story behind its development, a story about a vision of improved education for Austin students, and a community's..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Food Feature by MM Pack

Lumbering Toward a Long-Held Vision for a New I-35

Riding on TxDOT's endless highway

"...the latter of these approaches is what TxDOT now envisions for the CapEx Central, which includes two new "managed"..."

Jan. 27, 2023 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Blurry Vision

The Hightower hasn't found its groove – yet

"...Dolezal have yet to fully realize and execute their vision – or maybe it's just that I'm not their..."

April 4, 2014 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

One System, Multiple Modes

The map lays out the main lines of the 'multi-modal' regional transportation plans in progress

"...Compared to the CTRMA plan, Capital Metro's bus-and-rail "vision" is more sketchy, and the agency stresses that its..."

June 4, 2004 News Feature

Where's the Vision?

"...Editor: Thanks for reporting on the rollout of the Envision Central Texas regional plan and noting the commitment of..."

May 12, 2004 Postmarks

Austin @ Large: System Failure

The city's response to the Eastside police crisis remains inadequate

"...than does the city at large, of why the system failed on our streets. Because it did fail...."

Feb. 20, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Cap Metro Turns Toward a 2020 Vision

Plan suggests moving buses off Congress

"...50% larger, and the area will need a transit system to accommodate that...."

Feb. 19, 2010 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Bringing the Group to the Vision

As Pat Forgione prepares to say farewell, he looks back on his AISD decade

"...Forgione has always had a reputation as a systems and infrastructure guy. His mantra for his first two..."

Feb. 27, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Project Connect Unveils Vision of a Car-Free Drag

Cars, buses, and trains jockey for position on revamped Guadalupe Street

"...cost estimates, for the "initial investment" in the transit system overhaul...."

June 17, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

From the Archives: Organizing Outside the System – Deborah Shaffer and The Wobblies

Our 1981 interview with the filmmaker behind the classic doc

"...ways they went about organizing and their kind of vision and energy. The issues they were addressing are as..."

May 3, 2022 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Double Vision

When in Doubt...

"...being able to try out the decentralized "cluster" wastewater system, which means no new sewer line), the main sticking..."

July 30, 1999 News Column by Jenny Staff

Happy Trails on the Horizon?

AMTC's Vision Quest

"...Austinites have been dreaming about it for decades: a system of interlinking urban trails that would allow hikers and..."

July 28, 1995 News Feature

Hitting the Trails

City Trails Vision Provokes Suburban Wrath

"...Envision this: more than 400 miles of new hike- and-bike..."

Nov. 15, 1996 News Feature

GRIDLOCK'd

"...overnight like Saharan sand dunes. Our byzantine, indigent health-care system seems a logical enough subject for the directing and..."

Jan. 31, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Parks Board Recommends Zilker Plan Despite Misinformation-Fueled Outrage

Stakeholders respond to 5,000-seat amphitheater concerns

"...The Zilker Park Vision Plan has cleared its last hurdle before heading to..."

May 26, 2023 News Post by Lina Fisher

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

City Hall's M.O. and the sins of Vision Village

"...neighborhood scene. All due respect to Wilhelmina Delco, but Vision Village was never more than a good idea, and..."

Oct. 11, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Kusama: Infinity

The colorful world of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama

"...lamentedly end up telling the tale. Yayoi Kusama, the visionary Japanese artist who rose to prominence in New York..."

Sept. 28, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

"No Kill" for Traffic

Vision Zero action plan aims to eliminate traffic fatalities

"...May 19, when City Council voted to approve the Vision Zero action plan, Austin had just seen its 24th..."

July 8, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Clouds Over Campus

With less funding, more competition, and a wavering vision, UT-Austin faces an uncertain future

"...while state contributions decrease. Whatever the inevitable changes, UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa insisted recently, "Nobody is going to..."

May 21, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

How Do You Get From Here ... to Here?

The Austin transit system plan has vision but little consensus

"...the long awaited first link in an urban rail system, to be made ballot-ready for next November...."

Nov. 1, 2013 News Feature by Nick Barbaro

PrintAustin: Big Medium, Art.Science.Gallery, and Immediatag

Three galleries at Canopy offer such resonant and vital prints that they're hard to tear your vision from

"...Hard to tear your vision from Samantha Parker Salazar's wall-sized Fluidensity: System Breakdown (1),..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

How Much of Zilker Park Can Austin Return to Nature?

Balancing ecological preservation and the human element in city's Zilker Park Vision Plan

"...visitors a year, the crown jewel of Austin's parks system has immense cultural importance, but those millions of feet..."

Oct. 29, 2021 News Feature by Lina Fisher

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