Cool City: The Leffingwell Lens

One council member's view of the Austin Climate Protection Plan

"...for our biggest and thorniest regional issues: land use, transportation, transit, and infrastructure. Yet within the ACPP, a community..."

Aug. 31, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

What's Doing on Austin's Roadways

"...all. See the black dotted lines along this map? Transportation authorities peg them as planned projects, but time, money,..."

July 27, 2007 News Feature by Amy Smith

Streetcar Plan as Misguided as Invasion of Iraq

"...certainly ride a bus that offers them a sensible transportation option. I just returned from two weeks in a..."

July 22, 2007 Postmarks

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Our readers talk back.

"...hope Brewster McCracken's crack about the done-dealness of downtown mass transit ["Streetcar Plan Takes Shape," News, Aug. 18] leaves..."

Sept. 1, 2006 Column

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Our readers talk back.

"...just might be ordinary folks aiming for center of mass in the midst of throat-clutching fear and lots of..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Column

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...2005 Accessible America Award last week, along with Cambridge, Mass., and West Hollywood, Calif. Every year the National Organization..."

March 17, 2006 News Feature

Place 1

"...Endorsements: People for Efficient Transportation PAC (Austin Toll Party)..."

April 22, 2005 News Feature

Naked City

Recall petitioners look for a battle they can Wynn.

"...Daugherty, well known for his skepticism of mass transit and the toll road plan, gave toll road..."

Feb. 18, 2005 News Feature by Michael King

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Our readers talk back.

"...get. As for "lifestyle," all I know is that transportation choices heavily influenced my selection of a place to..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Column

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Our readers talk back.

"...commuter rail we will unequivocally have a city with transportation choices much more consistent with the progressive nature of..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Column

Weed Watch

Transit authorities have freedom of speech, too, judge rules

"...Istook, R-Okla., who attached the stipulation to the annual transportation appropriations bill) is a violation of congressional spending power,..."

June 11, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

"...Area Metropolitan Planning Organization -- centrally involved in regional transportation planning -- the Save Our Springs Alliance has filed..."

Oct. 24, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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Our readers talk back.

"...A basic principle of transportation planning is that first you find out where people..."

July 5, 2002 Column

Naked City

"...to speak at an all-night City Council hearing against massive development in the watershed. 3-10pm. Call 477-2320 or visit..."

June 7, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Downtown Mobility? Take Your Turns

Transportation Department proposes new downtown mobility plan

"...If the city's Transportation, Planning and Sustainability Dept. staff has its way, downtown..."

April 19, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Riding the Tech Titanic

Austin looks for recovery after the dot-com bust.

"...week (written by this reporter) was about Austin's horrendous transportation problems and what we could do about them. Like..."

March 15, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Road TRIPping

Austin has the fifth-highest rate of traffic fatalities in the nation, according to a highway lobbyist organization.

"...people can get out of their cars and into mass transit. Meanwhile, its safety recommendations seem relatively obvious, and..."

Jan. 11, 2002 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Naked City

"...the tone of last week's meeting of the Texas Transportation Commission, which approved SH 45 South despite opposition from..."

Dec. 21, 2001 News Feature by Lauri Apple

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Starbucks vs. the Chronicle: Who's zoomin' who?

"...By the way, anyone who thinks rail mass transit won't work should go live in Washington or..."

Sept. 15, 2000 Column

End of the Line

The Short and Troubled History of Austin's Streetcar System

"...sound remarkably similar to those being used to promote mass transit today. In 1914, an ad appeared in the..."

July 21, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

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Our readers talk back.

"...none of Moses' roads and bridges made provision for mass transit, and opened up large areas of Long Island..."

May 19, 2000 Column

Making Hay Out of Y2K

Preparedness 101

"...information that caused them to seriously worry about their transportation fleets (police cruisers and so on). The rumors turned..."

March 12, 1999 News Feature by Marc Savlov

Our Bodies, Our Cities

Austin and Beyond

"...As for transportation, the larger questions surrounding regional commuter rail have not..."

Jan. 29, 1999 News Column by Erica C. Barnett

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"...benefitting only contractors, construction worker unions, and cadres of "transportation consultants." Light rail from Austin to San Antonio? Who..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Column

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Turner Is Worthy

"...they might actually be of use in solving Austin's transportation problem...."

Sept. 25, 1998 Column

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MUD Myths

"...of Capital Metro who will vote to expand the mass transit system and who are supportive of the Capital..."

April 18, 1997 Column

Infill On Trial

What's the Verdict on the Latest Central-City Boom?

"...sustainability movement (such as green building, organic farming, alternative transportation, and compact city planning), as far as public policy..."

Feb. 14, 1997 News Feature

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Our Areas Are Sensitive

"...be necessary to condemn their land. At the Austin Transportation Study meeting of October 14, I gave Mr. Garcia..."

Nov. 29, 1996 Column

The Permanent Warning

Neglecting the Past Dooms Readers

"...C. Erwin, the man who led UT through a massive building boom in the Sixties and did much to..."

Sept. 13, 1996 News Column by Chris Walters

Austin Gets Compared to a Lot of Cities. But Is Life Better There?

Shopping for home

"...with what Porter called “awful” traffic, strained infrastructure, and massive, recent property tax hikes in Wake County that have..."

Feb. 21, 2025 News Feature by Abe Asher

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