Important changes are coming to MoPac. But they won't help you safely get places faster. For real improvement, we need a shift away from car-centric, low-density policies.
"What's happening to MoPac?"
Metro Austin's regional transportation planning agency wants more highway lanes. On MoPac, new "Express Lanes" will feature "congestion pricing …
[MORE]Proponents of 'slowing' or 'managing' Austin's growth typically advance policies that will improve the City's desirability. As a result, while their discourse concerns itself with growth deceleration, their implied solutions are actually additional sprawl and unnecessarily high prices.
For example, in this interview, a new Council Member explains a desire …
[MORE]November's urban rail and road package aims to "do something" as Austin clamors for transportation solutions. Sadly, as blog readers know, the proposal will not be effective at reducing congestion or promoting car-independence. It will, however, exhaust our reserves of political will and actual capital available for bold solutions. An …
[MORE]Yesterday, I joined an enthusiastic group of solution-minded Austinites at a CodeNEXT community input session. There were many great pro-reform speakers. Here's the presentation I delivered. Let's turn to the main points of the presentation and some additional ideas generated from discussion with defenders of the status quo.
1. Recent …
[MORE]One of the more exasperating aspects of debating Austin's housing supply is the confused economic assumptions of Austin NIMBYnomics. Specifically, there is a troubling blindspot about the economic reasoning that guides the humans that build and refurbish housing.
Often, developers are described as ‘greedy’ (which is a way of saying …
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