Since this has come up again recently , I thought I'd put together a better background piece than this old one .
I've co-opted an image from one of the proposals for the new central library for this and added some lines.
The thick green line is the major transit corridor of Congress Avenue. The thinner cyan lines are substantial transit corridors on Guadalupe/Lavaca and 5th/6th that carry at least a handful of bus routes (basically, the...
Sidewalk Master Plan
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....
A plan should set priorities
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....
BRT (or Rapid Bus) is NOT a stepping stone towards light rail
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...
The Austin Suburban Childrens' Museum
The Childrens' Museum, of which we are members, announced today that they plan to move to Mueller after previously pulling out of a plan to occupy part of the ground floor of one of the major...
Props to Council
City Council continues to show that it is serious about opening the core transit corridors to Vertical Mixed Use development by standing up to neighborhoods trying to wriggle out of the VMU...
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