Comments on: Make transit a high priority

By: SR

SR — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:33:15 +0000

Hooray for Spillar!
CapMetro, please sell everything associated with the Red Line and give all the proceed to Spillar to spend on light rail downtown!

It would be one tiny way to redirect some transportation spending to benefit the people who pay for it instead of the folks who live far from downtown and thereby depend heavily on subsidies from people living in central Austin.

By: M1EK

M1EK — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:20:24 +0000

What Austin needs most at this point is for control over the capital budget for transit to be taken away from Capital Metro and put in the hands of grown-ups at the city of Austin, or as a last resort, CAMPO. Otherwise, more money will be wasted on the Red Line, which unlike real light rail (the city’s plan), will never be able to be a major part of our transportation mix.

And there isn’t enough money to do both.

By: Andrew Roush

Andrew Roush — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:03:26 +0000

Austin needs some real transportation solutions, starting with keeping the promise on light rail.

http://www.replymagazine.org/departments/assignment/your-city-sucks/

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:52:42 +0000

While obviously we have to think about getting people in from the suburbs (since they’re already there), perhaps we should think about zoning as a larger part of transportation. Pushing through dense housing along our transit corridors, Lamar, Manchaca, 1st, Congress, and the Domain area, will make it easier to pull residents back into Central Austin and lessen the need for highways and express buses.

I read a great quote today that I think would be perfect for Austin:

“If we just changed our zoning so that anywhere you have a single family home you could build a double with a carriage house in back, you would triple the effective residential density of [Austin] without any change to the visual scale of the city.”