transit corridors

Kelly Snook, the new Parks and Recreation assistant director of operations, planning, design and construction, will speak to Sustainable Neighborhoods on Tuesday, August 17, about planning and design of pocket parks along transit corridors like Airport, Anderson, Burnet and Lamar....

Austin's New Parks Planner to Discuss Pocket Parks - SN Mtg Tues 8/17

Kelly Snook, the new Parks and Recreation assistant director of operations, planning, design and construction, will speak to Sustainable Neighborhoods on Tuesday, August 17, about planning and design of pocket parks along transit corridors like Airport, Anderson, Burnet and Lamar.

Snook is also the incoming president of the Texas chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

City of Austin's Lead Comp Planner to Speak on Planning of Suburban Transit Corridors

Garner Stoll, assistant planning director at the City of Austin and the person heading up the City's Comprehensive Planning effort, will speak to Sustainable Neighborhoods on Tuesday May 18 on how the Comp Planning process can be used to make suburban streets like Burnet, Lamar, Anderson or Airport more family- and pedestrian-friendly.

Just a reminder of the SN meeting tomorrow on planning of suburban transit corridors, with guest speaker Gordon Derr, assistant mobility director at the City of Austin.

Mr Derr is instrumental in the city's mobility planning process. This should be...

Here (5.5 MB pdf).

 Council likely will consider it in February.

Austin has 3,500 linear miles of absent sidewalk.

 City staff estimates it will cost $750 million to build out the network.  Staff is floating the idea of a 2010 bond election, but the City obviously won't try to fund the entire build-out.

 Hence, the Master Plan will determine who gets sidewalks within the next few years.

Here (5.5 MB pdf).

 Council likely will consider it in February.

Austin has 3,500 linear miles of absent sidewalk.

 City staff estimates it will cost $750 million to build out the network.  Staff is floating the idea of a 2010 bond election, but the City obviously won't try to fund the entire build-out.

 Hence, the Master Plan will determine who gets sidewalks within the next few years.

Here (5.5 MB pdf).

 Council likely will consider it in February.

Austin has 3,500 linear miles of absent sidewalk.

 City staff estimates it will cost $750 million to build out the network.  Staff is floating the idea of a 2010 bond election, but the City obviously won't try to fund the entire build-out.

 Hence, the Master Plan will determine who gets sidewalks within the next few years.

Austin is getting ready to draw up a comprehensive plan, its first since the 1979 Austin Tomorrow comprehensive plan.

I'm sure debates over land-use issues will hijack the planning process.

 These debates will be pointless because Austinites are divided into fractious groups with irreconcilable visions of what our city should look like.

 Someone's vision will win out, I suppose, but whatever plan emerges will be under constant attack from the losers.

Steven Zettner presented background on Sustainable Neighborhoods of North Central Austin (SNNCA) and explained the reasoning behind their resolution put before the CNA general assembly.

As part of an excellent series of takedowns of BRT, the San Francisco Bike Blog has written an excellent rebuttal to the frequent claims that BRT or Rapid Bus plans can function as stepping stones towards light rail.

One relevant excerpt relating to a transitway in Ottawa that was designed to be convertible to LRT::