The Travis County Commissioners Court meets at 9 a.m. Tuesday. In the interest of space, we’ve decided not to post the entire agenda here. The County Clerk’s Office hosts a copy at its website. 2. Receive comments regarding a resolution of no objection for Grand Station to be located at approximately 16000 Bratton Lane, Austin, […]
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County’s new transit plan includes buses, other odds and ends
The Travis County Commissioners Court on Tuesday approved a three-year transit development plan that aims to bring a variety of transit and transit-adjacent services to parts of the county where no buses currently operate. The 10 transit gap zones identified in the plan, which was a year in the making, sit outside of the Capital […]
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Travis County reveals proposed location for new courthouse
Travis County is negotiating with a private development group to build a brand-new civil courthouse at West 17th and Guadalupe streets. The location was revealed after County Judge Sarah Eckhardt announced at Tuesday’s Commissioners Court meeting that she had signed off on entering into exclusive negotiations with Travis County Courthouse Development Partners LLC to acquire […]
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City to help Cap Metro fund studies
City Council at its June 28 meeting voted to use money the city collected from the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority last decade to help pay for the transit agency’s ongoing Project Connect initiative. The move will reallocate $6 million from the quarter-cent fund to preliminary engineering work for the high-capacity transit planning effort. Established through […]
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Big plans for Shoal Creek Trail unveiled
The nonprofit steward of Austin’s premier urban trail has published its draft plan for extending the hike-and-bike path north from Central Austin all the way to the Domain. The Shoal Creek Conservancy on Friday publicly debuted its Shoal Creek Trail: Vision to Action Plan, a document that calls for more than tripling the length of […]
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Reporter’s Notebook: Go Spurs go
What’s in the box… As City Council spends the next few weeks on vacation, let’s take a moment to reflect on the hardest-working body in local government, the Travis County Commissioners Court. Sure, the court took the first half of June off when County Judge Sarah Eckhardt went on a much-deserved vacation, but that was […]
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CTRMA agrees to help with MetroRail station relocation, if necessary
Austin’s toll road agency is volunteering to be a financial backstop for the city’s transit provider should a bid for federal dollars to relocate a train station run off the rails. On Wednesday the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority Board of Directors voted 4-0 to approve the deal that would help the Capital Metropolitan Transportation […]
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Elfant updates Commissioners Court on Tax Office troubles following arrests
The Travis County Tax Office says that the first of four satellite offices that closed down after a fraud investigation netted seven arrests last month won’t reopen until late July at the earliest. Tax Assessor-Collector Bruce Elfant delivered that news along with a collection of other updates to the Commissioners Court on Tuesday afternoon. He […]
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County opens hush-hush talks on potential courthouse site
Travis County is officially entering negotiations with an anonymous property owner to acquire a new site for a brand-new civil courthouse. At the end of Tuesday’s regular voting session, the Commissioners Court unanimously approved a resolution approving the terms of the negotiations with the “preferred seller.” What the terms are and who the preferred seller […]
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Travis County asks state for a chunk of Volkswagen settlement
Central Texas governments could get more than $24 million to spend on new vehicles if the Travis County Commissioners Court gets its way. On Tuesday, the court voted unanimously to send a letter to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality asking for a cut of the massive payout offered by Volkswagen to settle a lawsuit […]
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Capital Metro gears up for no-pilot shuttle pilot
Austin, the “Kitty Hawk of driverless cars,” will likely see autonomous shuttles ferrying passengers through downtown streets by the end of 2018. The Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Monday revealed new details about a planned yearlong pilot program that will run six electric driverless minibuses in an area between the Downtown Station and the Central […]
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Ciclovia on hold while parking proposal creates controversy on Congress Avenue
The dream of shutting down Congress Avenue for a daylong bicycle festival is in a state of suspended animation. City Council made a step toward the idea just over a year ago when it voted on a resolution directing the city manager to explore the potential costs related to the event known as a Ciclovia. […]