Transportation
Friday, April 12, 2019 by Ryan Thornton
Transportation
Austin gets a new comprehensive transportation plan
After passing the Austin Strategic Mobility Plan – the transportation piece of the Imagine Austin Comprehensive Plan – on an initial reading March 28, City Council unanimously approved the plan on second and third readings Thursday afternoon.According to the ASMP’s…
Tuesday, April 9, 2019 by Ryan Thornton
Transportation
Getting everyone together for city’s first high-capacity transit line
Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority has only just begun its initial yearlong leg of conducting preliminary engineering and studying possible modes and alignments for Project Connect’s Orange Line, the city’s first high-capacity regional transit route, but transportation officials are ready for…
Friday, April 5, 2019 by Ryan Thornton
Transportation
Austin’s oldest cab franchise calls it quits
After more than 75 years in business, the city’s longest-running taxicab operator, Austin Cab Company, closed its doors on Saturday, March 30.The franchise had been in business since 1943 and was one of only four taxicab businesses (the city officially…
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 by Andrew Weber
Roads
The idea to bury I-35 has risen from the dead
“Cut and cap” – the idea for burying Interstate 35 in the downtown corridor and paving over that chasm to create green spaces or mixed-use development – is no longer in the rearview mirror.Congress for the New Urbanism, a nonprofit…
Tuesday, April 2, 2019 by Ryan Thornton
Transit
AECOM wins Orange Line preliminary engineering contract
Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority began advertising a contract for preliminary engineering design services and mode recommendations for the Project Connect 21-mile high-capacity Orange Line on Dec. 18, the day after the agency’s board of directors approved Project Connect‘s long-term vision plan.Now,…
Monday, April 1, 2019 by Ryan Thornton
Transportation
Land use policy is driving mobility discussion
As the Austin Strategic Mobility Plan has made its rounds to various city boards and commissions over the previous month, conversations about transportation goals have consistently gravitated toward the great unknown question of land use code reform.Now that the plan…
