Point Austin: Double or Nothing

Cap Metro fumbles the ball ... again

"...triple (or more) ancillary fares that directly affect the transit system's most vulnerable and dependent customers, often on Special..."

Sept. 21, 2007 News Column by Michael King

Top 10 Developing Stories: We got a plan

"...general not-so-ugliness. In Central Austin, the standards promote denser, transit-friendly development along more than 50 miles of urban corridors...."

Jan. 5, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Cap Metro Dodges Strike

Union, management credit Mayor Wynn with success

"...Will Wynn, Cap Metro contractor StarTran and the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1091 reached an agreement in Monday's early..."

Feb. 3, 2006 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...McCracken managed to make it to the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority last week, hat in hand, to ask..."

July 8, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

On Sidewalks, Cap Metro Speeds Past City Hall

Capital Metro improves its reputation with its Community Connections workshops.

"...two-week pilot program allowing neighborhood groups to ask the transit authority to build small-scale transportation amenities with no strings..."

June 13, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Riding the Vision Bus

"...Envision Central Texas, the former Regional Vision Project, took its act on the road this..."

Aug. 30, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Page Two

The opposition to Light Rail is rebutted by our Editor.

"...modern urban living stance but because it worked. Mass transit worked. It was the most effective way to get..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Column by Louis Black

Preaching to the Converted

"Troubling Era"

"...way, the Texas Department of Transportation wouldn't know alternative transit if the latter whacked TxDOT in its eight-lane butt...."

Dec. 25, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Postmarks

We Get What We Want

"...protecting the aquifer through limitations on impervious cover, developing regional efforts to protect water quality, and fully considering environmental..."

Feb. 27, 1998 Column

New Rail Options for Capital Metro

"...Sharp cuts in federal transit funding have left Capital Metro with an ever-increasing need..."

Dec. 22, 1995 News Feature

How Do You Get to 100%?

Council seeks consensus on a transportation bond

"...in both more "local" multimodal projects, as well as regional highways like Loop 360 and 620...."

June 24, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Kimley-Horn Wins Job

With thoughts from Scott Polikov

"...conference, attendees have called for transportation reform at local, regional, and national levels. In a panel debate about the..."

Nov. 6, 2009 News Post by Katherine Gregor

ECT Envisions the Legislative Session

Will the Lege grant more regional planning authority to local communities this time around?

"...– transportation, water, air quality – that need increased regional planning attention. But the question remains whether Texas legislators..."

Nov. 28, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Austin @ Large: Wreck on the Highway

Why the dogs can't catch the toll road speed machine

"...to reconsider and amend, or rescind, the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority's controversial toll road plan, by nearly identical..."

Sept. 17, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Postmarks

The environment, the alleged marijuana, the traffic, Ventura's highway, and more.

"...Craze" by Mike Clark-Madison ["Naked City," April 20] regarding regional air quality planning, and in particular the Ozone Flex..."

June 8, 2001 Column

Austin at Large: The Train Can’t Be Too Late

It’s going to be sad, so sad, when Mayor Pete’s money comes if Austin’s not ready

"...importantly, speculation about the future of Project Connect, the transit system overhaul approved by the voters (in the form..."

March 10, 2023 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Unions Bet on Mayoral Candidate Kirk Watson

Endorsements flow in, though his proposals may leave some Austinites wanting more

"...be capped with land used for parks and multimodal transit infrastructure. Also included in Israel's plan: delivering Project Connect..."

Sept. 9, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Bondology

How does one schedule a bond? Very carefully, and with a lot of advance planning.

"...not laid the groundwork for explaining how bad Austin's transit problem truly was, and how the proposed rail route..."

Oct. 27, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: Mayor Adler's Superhighway to the Mobility Bond

Speeding toward November

"...that will do far, far more for traffic and transit than our city has ever done in one fell..."

July 29, 2016 News Column by Michael King

Public Notice: Only Two Episodes Left

Plot twists and cliffhangers as Council approaches season finale

"...explain his bond proposal's focus on turning Austin's overburdened transit corridors into "Smart Corridors," noting that almost half of..."

June 17, 2016 News Column by Nick Barbaro

We’re Our Own Grandpaws

Thursday Council agenda packed with postponed business

"...which must be “Safe, Mixed-income, Accessible, Reasonably priced, and Transit-oriented.”..."

April 15, 2014 News Post by Michael King

Council: Task Lists and Wish Lists

On the agenda: Green Water Treatment Plant, Seaholm, urban rail and Austin Pets Alive!

"...the Capitol complex and UT. Under the slogan, "Think regionally, invest locally," the system is conceived to link light..."

May 25, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

Differences Between Denver and Austin

"...major activity centers without requiring transfers. You don't get transit-oriented districts around a rail line that makes everybody transfer..."

July 2, 2009 Postmarks

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...Observes Chris Leh­man, chair of the Sierra Club's Austin Regional Group and a 25-year commercial real estate appraiser: "It..."

June 20, 2008 News Feature

Cool Austin, Cool Planet

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

"...effort. In an interview prior to a Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority presentation, Nickels compared Seattle's launch to our..."

April 18, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Congress for New Urbanism

"...Calthorpe (r) urged Central Texans to tackle two top regional challenges aggressively: getting streetcar transit in Downtown Austin and..."

April 11, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Developing Stories: What Would Andrés Duany Do?

The town-planning messiah fixes Austin.

"...and his firm have designed some 300 new towns, regional plans, and community-revitalization projects. The company now focuses on..."

April 13, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Church Plan Unneighborly?

Redeemer Presbyterian Church's impending move from Concordia University's campus to East Austin has mix of homeowners and urban planners in Rosewood and Upper Boggy Creek area upset

"...Consider the circumstances: You've got a big conservative regional church – home to a lot of members with..."

Nov. 17, 2006 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...zoning around State Highway 130 to consider, planning for transit-oriented development, rewriting the 10,000-page land code, and much, much..."

Aug. 12, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

The Little Engine That Did

Capital Metro rides the train out of the political doghouse

"...handily. The ballot measure's final 62% victory freed Austin's transit authority from seven years of political purgatory and opened..."

Nov. 5, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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