In 2016, Austin voters approved a $720 million transportation bond. The city branded it as a Mobility Bond and authorized a Contract with Voters to facilitate accountability of such a large-scale set of expenditures. The contract lays out how the bond money should be split among three categories. $137m for local mobility projects, $101m for regional …
While the myth of “driving til you qualify” remains strong in the media, public opinion, and public policy decisions across Texas, it’s not quite a true story for most people – if you talk about all housing options instead of simply owning a single family home. On average, living in the dense urban part of …
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Like all Metropolitan Planning Organizations in Texas, Austin’s CAMPO develops a short-term Transportation Improvement Plan (TIP) every two years that ties together all regionally significant transportation projects in an attempt at a cohesive plan that meets long term vision and goals established in the longer Regional Transportation Plan process. A lot of the funding decision …