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Experience put Capital Metro CEO finalist over the top
The chair of the board at the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority said experience was the deciding factor when it came to selecting a lone finalist to take the executive reins. On Friday, after the board voted 7-0-1 to tap Randy…
Transit • By Caleb Pritchard • Jan 15, 2018
Hyperloop shoots through UTC meeting
The Urban Transportation Commission went down the tubes Tuesday evening. At its first meeting of 2018, the commission took in a presentation from engineering firm AECOM on efforts to prepare for a future hyperloop system in Texas. “This is not…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Jan 11, 2018
Austin's new 'speed cushions' spark outcry
Susanne Paul worries that Jester Estates, the affluent Northwest Austin neighborhood where she’s lived for nearly 20 years, may be broken beyond repair. What was once an “extremely friendly” community is now fraught with political divisions that many of her…
Roads • By Jack Craver • Jan 10, 2018
Capital Metro CEO finalists face the public
The auditions are over and now it’s time for the judges to determine who gets to be Austin’s next top transit executive. The final four candidates in the running for the open president/CEO job at the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority…
Transit • By Caleb Pritchard • Jan 9, 2018
CAMPO keeps Conley as chair
After legal counsel proposed a unique interpretation of Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization bylaws, CAMPO Transportation Policy Board members voted on Monday to keep Will Conley as chair but removed his ability to vote on policy issues. Although federal statute…
Transportation • By Jessi Devenyns • Jan 9, 2018
CAMPO to consider innovative way to keep Conley as chair
A unique proposal is in the works to keep Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization board Chair Will Conley in his post despite his departure last year from the Hays County Commissioners Court. Federal statute dictates that board members of powerful…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Jan 8, 2018
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City tentatively talks about dockless bike-sharing
The Austin Transportation Department is taking a studious approach to the dockless bike-sharing companies that have swooped into cities throughout the world in 2017. Active Transportation Program Manager Laura Dierenfield brought the Bicycle Advisory Council into the conversation on Wednesday…
Bicycles • By Caleb Pritchard • Dec 21, 2017
Capital Metro reveals final four in its CEO search
The path to replace outgoing Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority President and CEO Linda Watson will trace through a town hall meeting in early 2018. On Wednesday, the transit agency revealed the names of the four candidates still in the running…
Transit • By Caleb Pritchard • Dec 19, 2017
State officials steamroll toll lanes out of I-35 plans
The Texas Transportation Commission drove the Capital Express into a bar ditch on Thursday morning. Despite a full-court, bipartisan press from local political and business leaders, the commission voted unanimously to strip from the Texas Department of Transportation’s 10-year construction…
Roads • By Caleb Pritchard • Dec 15, 2017
Traffic volumes increasing on MoPac
The MoPac Improvement Project, originally sold as a congestion relief initiative, has driven up the number of drivers on parts of the roadway, with some sections seeing an increase of nearly 30,000 vehicles per day. “The traffic has returned,” Jeff…
Roads • By Caleb Pritchard • Dec 14, 2017
Guadalupe plan no roadblock for Project Connect
The city’s newly published Guadalupe Corridor Plan unsurprisingly turned heads when the Austin Transportation Department published it on Tuesday. Any plan that recommends the elimination of on-street parking and conversion of general purpose lanes into transit-priority lanes can be reliably…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Dec 8, 2017
Breakdowns plague MetroRapid fleet
The Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s highly heralded MetroRapid buses fell well short of the agency’s maintenance goals during Fiscal Year 2016-17. Each month, the fleet of 55 vehicles failed to reach the minimum goal of miles traveled between road calls.…
