Public Works
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City Council Gets Some Breathing Room on the Budget
Austin bounced back from COVID with what City Manager Spencer Cronk called “spectacular economic growth.” How spectacular?
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How Austin Is Tackling Homelessness on the Street and at City Hall
More shelters, more beds, and more fights about ordinances ahead
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Old West Austin Fights the Cut-Through Menace
Lamar, Enfield road reconstruction boxes in Downtown neighbors
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City Hall’s Bumpy Road
Can staff and council ever bring an end to Austin’s transportation wars?
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In Austin, Safety Comes at a (Too) High Price
The city’s inflated budgets may have left Austin ped / bike projects empty-handed.
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Council Does the Money Mambo
The bones of the city — roads, sewers, power lines — took center stage for last Thursday’s installment at City Council of “Budget: How Low Can We Go?” Not as low as we might like.