Environmental sustainability implications of Austin’s regional growth policies

by Jay Blazek CrossleyGrowing Weirder, TexurbanPosted on Comments are Disabled

In the Austin region, we must reduce our metropolitan carbon emissions to play a responsible role in the 21st century world community. Unfortunately, many of our public policies continue to increase our carbon footprint – especially land use and transportation policies. As we grow from two to four million, we have the opportunity to lower …

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Where Austin’s CapRemap Provides Better Transit and For Whom?

by Jay Blazek CrossleyOne Thousand Texans for TransitPosted on Comments are Disabled

Sunday morning, Austin’s Capital Metro transit agency relaunched its core service, with a reconfiguration of its bus service into a frequent grid network. More than a year ago, we explored how the changes would provide more low income people with access to frequent transit. There have been reasonable equity concerns in the Cap ReMap process, …

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Access to frequent bus service for Austinites living in poverty currently and with the proposed Connections 2025 service changes

by Jay Blazek CrossleyOne Thousand Texans for TransitPosted on Comments are Disabled

[In the formative months of Farm&City in early 2017, we created this report, working with AURA leader, John Laycock, but just realized that we had never posted it on our website, which was launched months later. With the launch of Cap Remap today, it seemed important to post this as a record of part of …

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