Tag Archives: Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization

Rethink35 plans what it hopes will be largest anti-highway protest in Texas history

Rethink35, the organization fighting the Interstate 35 Capital Express Project slated to begin next year, is organizing what it hopes to be the largest anti-highway protest in Texas history. The rally is scheduled for 11 a.m. on Nov. 5 at…

Roads • By Nina Hernandez • Oct 13, 2023

CAMPO board OKs amendments to I-35 expansion project without votes from 3 Council members

The Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization’s Transportation Policy Board voted last week to approve amendments to its highway improvement plans, which will pave the way for the latest version of the Interstate 35 Capital Express project. It did so without…

Roads • By Nina Hernandez • Aug 23, 2023

With missing link in place, Violet Crown now offers 11 miles of uninterrupted trail

A mile-long missing link in the Violet Crown Trail is now complete and open to the public. This new segment in Sunset Valley guides trailblazers from the end of Home Depot Boulevard, through a wooded area, under MoPac Expressway and…

Bicycles • By Nathan Bernier, KUT • Jul 31, 2023

CAMPO begins refund process for postponed transit projects

Most of the discussion at the Oct. 11 Transportation Policy Board meeting of the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization centered around the possibility of refunding a handful of projects that were deferred because of the Interstate 35 expansion project. Ryan Collins,…

Transportation • By Seth Smalley • Oct 12, 2021

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CAMPO chooses not to accept Regional Arterials Study

The Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization’s 2045 Regional Arterials Study was renamed and heavily critiqued by the Transportation Policy Board on Monday. The $1.5 million study is a big-picture transportation modeling exercise that was intended to serve as a kind…