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Austin City Council passes comprehensive speed management package

by Olivia MuehlbergerVisionZeroTexas June 11, 2020September 3, 2020One Comment

Today, Austin City Council unanimously voted to pass the comprehensive speed management package that will change speed limits across the city and facilitate physical changes to streets to allow for safer traffic speeds. Austin Transportation Department staff have been working on this for the last year, while Austin City Council actually initiated this work way …

Austin’s Long-term transportation investment requires better options than more frontage roads

by Madilyn JarmanGrowing Weirder, VisionZeroTexas June 1, 2020June 1, 2020No Comments

As CAMPO considers which projects will have their funding maintained, expansions to the 183A frontage road represent $75 million of available funds while other projects could provide larger benefits to the region.

Two Austin Fire trucks pulling out of a fire station

Austin’s awesome Emergency/Transit Vehicle Signal Priority project threatened to be unfunded by CAMPO Policy Board

by Olivia MuehlbergerGrowing Weirder, VisionZeroTexas June 1, 2020June 24, 2020No Comments

Quick and safe access for emergency vehicles, prioritizing public transportation vehicles, and improving the overall safety and ease of being on a busy road: All of these are outcomes of the proposed Emergency / Transit Vehicle Signal Priority project that the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (CAMPO) Transportation Policy Board (TPB) funded last year, but …