Developing Stories: The Rail Learning Curve

Spillar outlines city plan to avoid Cap Metro's missteps

"...Can the city's proposed Austin Urban Rail avoid the persistent problems of Capital Metro's Red Line..."

Dec. 18, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

From Light Rail to a Downtown Tunnel: The Parts of Project Connect

Diving into the plan

"...in 2000 (lost narrowly), 2004 (won handily; that's the MetroRail Red Line), and 2014 (lost handily). This plan combines..."

Sept. 25, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin-SA Commuter Rail: Kyle looking on board

City of Kyle likely to be among first jurisdictions to support Austin-San Antonio commuter rail proposal

"...the first jurisdictions to support the Austin-San Antonio commuter rail proposal, if only because it's most familiar with the..."

Dec. 1, 2006 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Developing Stories: Wynn Calls for 2008 Rail Vote

Will Austin get a streetcar at last?

"...major November 2008 voter referendum for a new local rail transit system – a call-to-action to be issued Thursday..."

Oct. 26, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Beside The Point

As the bond election nears, council takes up a light agenda

"...scant agenda is the 2pm presentation of the downtown circulator study by land-development savant Charles Heimsath. The presentation should..."

Nov. 3, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Streetcar Desires

The Austin streetcar has a consensus – it still needs champions

"..."Solving circulator transit Downtown – call it a trolley or a..."

July 20, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Developing Stories: A Long Route to Go

Will we vote on urban rail in November 2010?

"...Line to open, what's the status of that other rail transit project – the Downtown streetcar once championed by..."

Oct. 2, 2009 News Column by Katherine Gregor

City Hall Hustle: Reading Place 1

Cavazos or Riley? You decide.

"...For one instance, on the question of an urban rail circulator, Riley called it an "absolutely essential" component to..."

April 10, 2009 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Developing Stories

Plans unveiled for rail transit

"...Engineering unveiled the highlights of a detailed proposal for circulator rail transit. The Phase I analysis includes essential data..."

Aug. 1, 2008 News Column by Katherine Gregor

City Hall Hustle: He's Making a List ...

The Hustle checks in on the mayor's campaign agenda

"...bond election as early as November 2010, including a rail component. We've got some work to do on a..."

Nov. 20, 2009 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...voters, as early as November, plans for a downtown/Capitol/UT/Mueller circulator rail compliment to CapMetro's "modest" commuter rail approved in..."

June 9, 2006 News Feature

Developing Stories: What Would Andrés Duany Do?

The town-planning messiah fixes Austin.

"...On inner-city circulator rail:..."

April 13, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Logical Error

Cap Metro's rail and budget travails

"...We can't precisely say MetroRail has been "delayed" again – since Capital Metro no..."

Sept. 4, 2009 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Working on the Railroad

The regional Transit Working Group is poised to make progress on passenger rail

"...a regional Central Texas transit system – focused on rail, not roads – has been taking fascinating shape at..."

Feb. 22, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Streetcar Plan Takes Shape

Rail advocates hope a downtown circulator will help boost usage of the new commuter rail

"...Streetcars, trollies, light rail, and downtown circulators, all serving the same purpose, are..."

Aug. 18, 2006 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Streetcar Plans Unveiled

Capital Metro unveiled its streetcar circulator route for Downtown and Mueller at its recent board meeting, but the agency still managed to see that announcement upstaged by a proposal to double current bus fares and a likely impending labor squabble.

"...Capital Metro unveiled its streetcar circulator route for Down-town and Mueller at its board meeting..."

Nov. 3, 2006 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Tracking Cap Metro's Eastward Proposal

The Green Line takes conceptual shape

"...Is passenger rail for the East Austin growth corridor a wise regional..."

Sept. 12, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

10 Reasons to Love a Streetcar

The 'streetcar effect' – offering Austinites far more than a free ride

"...when compared to buses – are an innately superior circulator-transit beast...."

July 20, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Riding to the End of the Line

Can Cap Metro weather the recession, balance its books ... and run the buses and trains on time?

"...Recov­ery and Reinvestment Act money previously reserved for the rail startup could be switched over to operations and rescinded..."

Sept. 18, 2009 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Cap Metro Courting Prospective Partners

Transit authority could extend rail and bus service well beyond Austin

"...New rail transit service between Elgin and Austin – enthusiastically advocated..."

July 4, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Developing Stories

Connect-the-dot conversations heard around town

"...Dittmar pointedly extolled the virtues of urban rail transit, noting, "A circulator is really implicated for Austin..."

Nov. 9, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Developing Stories: 'Every Day It's Getting Worse'

Strategic Mobility Plan marks a way out of permanent gridlock

"...helicopter). The city is poised to plunge into the rail-transit business – with its central-city circulator Austin Urban Rail..."

March 12, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Cap Metro: The Quarter Cent Shuffle

Why Cap Metro takes a quarter-cent and then gives it back

"...The answer is politics – specifically, road vs. rail politics. In 2000, when light rail lost narrowly at..."

April 16, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Walker Steps Down as Cap Metro Board Chair

After 11 years, says time for "someone else" to take on "exciting challenges"

"...to Mayor Will Wynn, whose vision for a downtown rail circulator system led you to create the CAMPO Transit..."

March 31, 2008 News Post by Lee Nichols

UT Students Ignite Streetcar Passions

A UT forum on light rail got heavy last week

"...Rail 4 Real, a University of Texas student group advocating..."

Sept. 19, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Which Would Be More Effective?

"...Regarding Katherine Gregor's Feb. 22 cover story promoting light rail [“Working on the Railroad,” News]. In 2006, Capital Metro..."

Feb. 21, 2008 Postmarks

Top 10 Transportation Stories

MetroRail finally launches but ...

"...1) METRORAIL LAUNCHES! Two years behind schedule and after a few..."

Jan. 7, 2011 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Developing Stories: Future Mobility: Shaping the Transportation Bonds

Urban rail is what you won't see this November – so what will you see?

"...many unanswered questions to "bring a fully developed urban rail proposal to Austin voters this November," he said he..."

March 26, 2010 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Parking Enterprise

If approved, Parking Enterprise Fund Resolution will invest in garages available to public, with revenues providing funding for transit, trails, sidewalks, and bike paths

"...public; enterprise revenues will provide long-term funding for transit, trails, sidewalks, and bike paths. State and federal dollars could..."

Dec. 21, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Seaholm Powers Ahead, Amid Questions About the 'Public Interest'

Oft-delayed development getting serious at City Council

"...public; Enterprise revenues will provide long-term funding for transit, trails, sidewalks and bike paths. State and federal dollars could..."

Dec. 12, 2007 News Post by Katherine Gregor

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