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Austin Monitor Radio: Getting into the Council transportation bond vote
Austin Monitor reporter Caleb Pritchard joins publisher Mike Kanin to chat about Council’s recent transportation bond vote. Post is embedded below:
Radio • By Michael Kanin • Jul 6, 2016
Council moves $720 million mobility bond forward
While most of Austin slept early Friday morning, City Council gave the green light to a mobility bond with little historical precedent. Just after 1:30 a.m., following a tortuous and fraught discussion marked by simmering tensions that at times neared…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Jun 24, 2016
Advocates say bond funding for Bicycle Master Plan could diversify local biking community
Sharmar Mohamed Hassan doesn’t know the words in English to describe his bicycle. So he uses his native language, Somali, to tell me it’s a green road bike. And it’s his primary form of transportation in Austin — which, at…
Bicycles • By Audrey McGlinchy, KUT • Jun 23, 2016
Poll: 56 percent favor big bond election
Of the 1,200 Austinites polled about a proposed $720 million transportation bond election, 56 percent said they would vote in favor of such bonds if asked to do so in November. Thirty-six percent indicated that they would vote against such…
Transportation • By Jo Clifton • Jun 23, 2016
The mayor's bond proposal is the "Smart Corridor Resolution." So, what makes a street smart?
Cars, buses and trucks idle at the four-way intersection at Guadalupe Street and West Dean Keeton Street. A horde of prospective students takes to the crosswalk, the timer counting down. Traverse this intersection long enough and you might soon understand…
Roads • By Audrey McGlinchy, KUT • Jun 22, 2016
Council direction on bonds still unclear
Both Mayor Steve Adler and City Council Member Ann Kitchen have come up with new versions of their proposals for a transportation bond election in November. Adler’s revised proposal would still request voter approval to sell $720 million in general…
Transportation • By Jo Clifton • Jun 22, 2016
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With funding still in question, Council approves sidewalk plan update
City Council last week gave nearly unanimous approval to an update of the 2009 Sidewalk Master Plan. The 9-0-1 vote comes in the middle of the ongoing debate over a small batch of mobility bond proposals that could go before…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Jun 21, 2016
Big doubts loom over Adler's big bond
With just one more regular meeting before its July break, City Council appears far from reaching any clear consensus on dueling mobility bond proposals. “Essentially, what we’re all struggling with is a balance,” Council Member Ann Kitchen told her colleagues…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Jun 17, 2016
Council approves law barring many former offenders from driving for taxi companies, TNCs
City Council approved an ordinance that will bar many convicted of low-level criminal offenses from operating a taxi or driving for transportation network companies such as Uber and Lyft for many years after their offense. Those convicted of certain felony…
Transportation • By Jack Craver • Jun 17, 2016
CTRMA goes shopping for partner to build SH 45 SW
The Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority on Tuesday took another major step toward the construction of a highly controversial road project in southwestern Travis County. With a vote of 6-0, its board of directors directed CTRMA staff to start shopping…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Jun 16, 2016
Mobility Committee balks at Adler's bond recommendation
In the race among the growing list of proposals for a November bond referendum, City Council’s Mobility Committee jockeyed into the lead on Tuesday evening a dark-horse recommendation. With a vote of 4-0, the committee endorsed Council Member Ann Kitchen’s…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Jun 15, 2016
Council members float mobility bond alternatives
Three members of City Council have floated two separate alternatives to Mayor Steve Adler’s $720 million mobility bond proposal. On Monday, Council Member Ann Kitchen’s office posted on the Council Message Board a draft resolution for a significantly pared-down vision…
