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I don't know if "major" is the right word...it's pretty narrow, and that bend approaching duval can get pretty iffy when traffic starts getting heavier. And with no turning lane on it, it easily can go down to one lane as people try to get into the neighborhoods (which is of course worse of a problem when traffic gets heavy). I think the only reason anyone can consider it a "major" road is that there really aren't many good E-W roads in Austin, especially if you consider I-35 to Mopac. You get cesar chavez, 5th/6th, and then a bunch of these small "major roads" all the way up to anderson. In any other circumstance, these roads would be major residential roads (or whatever the proper term for them is). Certainly not major E-W arterial roads.
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I was taking issue only with your claim that 45th was part of such a corridor because you could cross I-35 on Airport itself. Don't you ever admit you're wrong about anything? |
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Instead of the estimated 40,000 riders, half would only be 20,000 riders. Still, 20,000 is still much more than 1,000 or even 2,000 riders. Does anyone have any statistics on how many riders were riding express buses from the park & ride stations to what are riding express buses and the trains today from the same stations? That stat will determine whether the trains are attracting new transit riders, or just riders that were once riding the buses. |
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One matches experience with other cities; the other doesn't. And no, there's no data on express bus ridership right now - just anectdotal reports that some people have already gone back to said buses. |
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The key here is that Airport doesn't connect to any other major E-W roads until you get down to 38th anyways (and 38th basically ends at Airport). Again, unless you're just trying to be argumentative for its own sake, it's clear that the E-W corridors that cross I-35 and Airport in that part of town are 2222 and 51st (38th ending at Airport but crossing I-35). 45th is a red herring - the only point is to try to score some kind of 'win'; it's not relevant to the discussion of closing 51st to traffic because most of the people using 51st to get from points east of I-35 would not find it easy to use 45th. |
Last night coming home from work I was stopped at the rail guard under 35 right next to Airport for the commuter train. I tried to count the number of people on it. Not to my surprise I could count the number of people on one hand (4) who were headed north on the train.
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He said he was under I-35 at the Airport crossing. IE, in the shade.
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Red Line: What Comes Next?
My post; some quotes from Ben Wear's article about the 500-ish ridership:
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I thought they were getting started on this. I noticed last week some surveyors on the I-35 frontage road.
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I usually walk with my wife to her office on Congress in the morning. This week I made sure to note the connector buses while I walked along Congress to see how many people were riding them. In two days, so far, I've seen *0* people the connectors. Now this is only between 6th and 9th, so maybe they got off before that point, but still...
Today, walking back home, I went by the train station. When I walked up I noted 5 connector buses waiting. A train arrived (this was almost 9:00 am), and a total of 14 people got out. 4 of them had bikes. No one got on a connector. Now I realize 9:00 is after most people get to work, but I still thought there would be more people on it. |
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Quarter Cent Debacle
Lots of coverage in today's Chronicle about the quarter cent debacle (the city spent a bunch of money they were obligated by Capital Metro; Capital Metro stiffed us).
Note that insiders like JMVC insisted back when this story first started breaking that there'd be no problem paying the money back; that Ben Wear was wrong when he was reporting that CM was out of money; etc. Gone and Quartered Where the Money's Going Show Us the Money Cap Metro: The Quarter-Cent Shuffle |
I was stopped at the light on Red River, northbound, at 4th st on my early commute home today. At about 4:20, a Red Line train left the 'downtown' station and crossed in front of me.
There were 8 people on it. Eight. |
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