Austin Rail Planning 'Off-Track' Again?

"...that is tasked with both helping develop a long-range regional transit plan and “rubber-stamping” (because that is all they..."

May 30, 2012 Postmarks

New Year = New Transit Fares

Bus-dependent riders say Cap Metro favoring suburbanites

"...most customers: local (regular bus and one-zone MetroRail) and regional (all-zone MetroRail and MetroExpress). Also, for the first time,..."

Nov. 19, 2010 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Council Preview: City Manager Review, Cab Vote, and More

Controversial items hit the dais this week

"...topic is Item 33, potential approval of the Austin Regional Intelligence Center, a "fusion center" clearinghouse for Central Texas..."

May 28, 2010 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Res Publica

Citizens' calendar, Jan. 28-Feb. 4

"...COMMUNITY FORUM: AUSTIN REGIONAL INTEL­LIGENCE CENTER Learn about the ARIC, which, if approved..."

Jan. 29, 2010 News Feature

Downtown Austin Plan: Why Do It?

At least three council members question cost

"...Capital Metro board to be spent on planning – Regional Mobility Studies. (Capital Metro lacks the reserves to pay..."

March 20, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization finally adopted a detailed Transportation Investment Decision Tree by which to evaluate transit proposals...."

June 27, 2008 News Feature

How 'Green' Is the Transit Working Group?

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

"...morning at City Hall to guide the future of regional transit – potentially running from San Antonio to Austin,..."

March 21, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Naked City

"...suing the company and its local medical contractor, Austin Regional Clinic, claiming exposure to toxic chemicals during her pregnancy..."

Nov. 16, 2007 News Feature

Developing Stories: Wynn Calls for 2008 Rail Vote

Will Austin get a streetcar at last?

"...Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Develop­ment and Climate Change, transportation accounts for one-third of CO2 emissions in the United..."

Oct. 26, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Naked City

"...of the climate-changing carbon-dioxide emissions created by its yearlong transportation needs and electricity use through the purchase of renewable-energy..."

Feb. 16, 2007 News Feature

Point Austin: Good, Bad, and Ugly

Sustainability Project snap-shoots our present, future

"...2000, to develop the information necessary to support a regional effort at "sustainable development," a term the authors define..."

Dec. 29, 2006 News Column by Michael King

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...to add additional toll roads to the region's short-term transportation plan – known as the Transportation Improvement Plan –..."

July 14, 2006 News Feature

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Hill spilled into the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization's Transportation Policy Board meeting on Monday night. The three-mile stretch..."

July 15, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Naked City

Strayhorn kisses up to anti-tollsters, but other pols hold at arm's length

"...Strayhorn for her tough stance against the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority in recent months. While the Toll Party..."

April 29, 2005 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Costello Puts Up a (Toll) Roadblock

Austin Toll Party sues CTRMA

"...found one more way to zing the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority, filing a temporary injunction to stop the..."

March 4, 2005 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Naked City

The final (but not really) fruits of the regional-planning effort's labors

"...work, Envision Central Texas presented the fruits of its regional planning effort this week, releasing an ambitious and optimistic..."

May 7, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Envision Cycle Texas?

"...back seat to motorists in the Envision Central Texas regional planning process, currently under way? Texas Bicycle Coalition Legislative..."

April 25, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple

The Battle for the Springs: A Chronology

"...and the conservation district sue the Texas Department of Transportation to halt construction of the southern extension of MoPac..."

Aug. 9, 2002 News Feature

Postmarks

Transportation and trash are heavy on the minds of readers this week.

"...This would enable a mass-transit system that is a regional, efficient solution to high-$$ highways, gridlock, and air pollution...."

Feb. 4, 2000 Column

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...could soon vote in favor of forming the special regional rail district, though the commissioners have yet to formally..."

Feb. 12, 1999 News Feature

The Smart Growth Lineup

"...day wraps up with "Enhancing Existing Neighborhoods" sessions on transportation and affordable housing. The de rigeur "networking reception" follows...."

Nov. 27, 1998 News Feature

Bond Election Cliffs Notes

General Obligation Bonds

"...Prop. 1: Transportation..."

Oct. 23, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...after city councilmembers and county commissioners on the Austin Transportation Study (ATS) voted earlier this month to pour out..."

March 13, 1998 News Feature

Neighborhood Soup

"...service delivery -- and infrastructure, and public safety, and transportation, and economic development, and environmental and historic preservation, and..."

Aug. 1, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Solving Georgian Acres' Mobility Problem With Buses, Bikes, and Scooters

Solar-powered mobility hub planned for "transit desert"

"...The Austin Transportation Depart­ment's Smart Mobility Office, UT-Austin, and local nonprofit Jail..."

Oct. 1, 2021 News Feature by Lina Fisher

What I Want to do With My Life

Mike Krusee on New Urbanism, Smart Growth, toll roads, and why Bobby Kennedy is his hero

"...kind of ever since I became chairman [of House Transportation] in 2003 – [the chairmanship] took me down a..."

Dec. 7, 2007 News Column by Michael King

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...South Texas Mission Presbytery, the governing association of 137 regional churches, is much less enthusiastic, and at its meetings..."

June 9, 2006 News Feature

Subsidizing Smog

A new report from the Sierra Club shows that while new roads may get traffic moving, air quality will continue to suffer.

"...office, suburban-style development and a continued focus on private transportation threaten not just livability but human health in most..."

Nov. 30, 2001 News Feature by Dan Oko

Postmarks

Benefits of Frankenfoods

"...City Hall to use the light rail and bus transportation corridors as rezoning gentrification projects. Think your property values..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Column

No One Way About It

Which Way for Our Downtown Streets?

"...about? That question will be put to the city's transportation officials as they argue the pros and cons of..."

Aug. 2, 1996 News Feature

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