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The problem with the new med center location is best explained by this very old post from Jarrett Walker: humantransit.org/2009/04/be-o...

There will never be high frequency good transit on Braker; it's too far away from everything and will always be a crappy xfer service only.

And KXAN is so inexorably suburban-biased that they actually called it “just north of UT” on the news just now.

This site will be a transit island that’s expensive or impractical to get to by anything but a car; but many workers at the hospital are precisely the type who take transit in other locations now. It’s a much worse outcome than the old Erwin Center site.

The right wing troglodytes constantly and confidently asserting buses are always empty are liars; don’t forget. Currently aboard a southbound 801 that required me to hang on a strap from 39th to 26th and still a few standing now.

#ccmf

How could you be landing at Reagan and not have the window shades up? Very disappointing flight. 90% of people including my row down.

The last time a brand new red sidewalk opened that was supposed to be great and I bothered to write a post and take pictures: m1ek.dahmus.org/2024bfrnt-so...

Good news, your town is finally big enough to appear on the LCRA hydromet map:

The real scandal is where ATP is NOW and what they are doing with the surface parking lot next to the building, by the way, not that anybody in our local media has the cojones to actually look into it.

The guy who keeps advocating to spend hundreds of millions of local tax dollars on public housing is not the guy you need to be the watchdog for ATP, as much as they need a watchdog, obviously, more for lack of urgency than anything else.

Happy Appomattox Day to all that celebrate

I am pretty sure that the aerial shot of “Ex Peninsula” on Reggie Dinkins’ latest episode is an old shot of Caneel Bay, pre-Irma.

Ah, but you did think of me

I am the respectful Nittany Lion

Treasurer of AURA memory-holes the decade or so you were called a "ghoul" by **everybody in AURA** for wanting the public camping ban reinstated.

Would sure be nice if over the last few months and years, US automakers hadn't pushed hard to get us back out of EVs!

totally normal yimby urbanist chats happening in Austin's purported urbanist group

Parker whatshisname

Yes; the version of the thing that I helped launch (and gave all my political capital to, only to be stabbed in the back later) was supposed to be about policy and transparency; that's obviously not who they are now.

The AURA dipshits are now being confidently told in their discord by some dingus that Cap Metro just made a silly oopsie by treating the 801/803 as major capital projects instead of minor improvements, and that we'll all be better off if they just cancel the 1 and the 3 altogether.

They have a tendency to memory-hole their endorsements that don't win and then pretend like they won all along if their follow-up choice wins a runoff.

I mean, it's the obvious follow-up; but if it were an org I had lent my political capital to, I'd want a public word of explanation in between (sorry our guy didn't win; now we're endorsing in the run-off; this lady is much better than the alternative; etc).

A short play in three parts. No introspection, transparency, or acknowledgement apparently required.

Like, there's a dude smarmily saying "buses run on vibes" to make fun of people who say gas price rises hurt mostly drivers, but in fact, the cost of fuel in running a bus isn't even the biggest cost (of several large components) today. It's labor.

The real cognitive problem, as demonstrated in many replies, is that car-brained suburbanites essentially think gas doubling in price means everything else doubles in price; when it's more like everything else goes up SOME, but nowhere near double, and many things only go up a little.

It's my opinion based on reasoned observation of what's happened both nationally and here in Austin, where heavy investments have been made in PSH which were almost immediately trashed by their intended inhabitants.

To be clear, many developers at those companies are willingly using it; but the companies are forcing everybody to use it (counting it in performance review metrics, for instance). If it were the next logical step from a compiler, that wouldn't be necessary.

If AI for coding was really as provably/proven good as its grifters insist it is, we wouldn't see most employers having to force developers to use it (which is happening, all over the place, right now).

The studies cherrypicked the best-behaved temporarily homeless and put them in an apartment and lo and behold; it 'worked'. In reality, the people in encampments are orders of magnitude harder to house than that.