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Now that the riverside rezone is done, the developer now has to donate 2.5 million toward the Longhorn Dam pedestrian bridge and 1.6 million for development of the PV Bus Rapid line.
They also have 5.5 million in offsite road and bus stop improvements to make but not all of them are a part of phase 1. They will have to make much needed improvements to PV and Cesar which is mostly adding and extending dedicated turn lanes which will help process more cars through the intersection per cycle. |
Cap Metro is going all in on a downtown Subway with project connect. Hopefully board and council members don't walk them back and push them to do street level transit in downtown.
The tunnels would run from Trinity from Lake to 11th, 4th from Trinity St. to Guadalupe, and Guadalupe from Cesar Chavez to 9th for $2.3-$2.5B. Excluding the tunnel on Trinity St. from 4th to 11th would save about 500 million but then you have to wonder what happens when they shut down 6th on weekends or festivals. |
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I had dinner with District 1 city council member Natasha Harper-Madison and her aide Caleb Pritchard on Monday. We were mostly talking about how to go about getting a sidewalk on the busy road by our neighborhood but in-so-doing we discussed the 2020 transportation bond quite a bit.
Obviously, urban rail is going to be the main component of that but Caleb said he wants to go big and push for a lot of sidewalk funding, knowing that there's going to be a big turnout of young, progressive, anti-Trump voters. So that's exciting. He talked about how his friends/allies formed a new group called the Wheel Deal and they're proposing a huge plan. Found an article about it here: https://www.austinmonitor.com/storie...th-wheel-deal/ Anyway, I was wondering: if they do take the urban rail line down Guadalupe/Lamar, would it be above the street like this? https://i.imgur.com/Mf8dcFOh.png I actually kinda like that look. |
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Yeah I'm betting we'll get an elevated rail line pretty much everywhere central, which is not the prettiest, I guess but it adds character? :shrug:
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Oh, Caleb Pritchard (kinda the transportation brains behind Natasha Harper-Madison) said he wants to cut and cap 35 using this 2020 bond funding.
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And if we really had our stuff together we would have a great plan with a central subway!
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Notice bxsportsny.com? |
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I can't do much image editing at work but it's something like this: A: Tech Ridge __Parmer__ Braker__/¯¯Rundberg¯¯\__NLTC__/¯¯¯ ¯¯Crestview¯¯Koenig¯¯¯Triangle¯¯¯Hyde Park¯¯¯Hemphill Park¯¯¯ ¯¯¯UT Mall¯¯¯Capitol West¯¯\_Woolridge Sq_/¯Republic Sq¯¯ ¯¯Auditorium Shores¯¯\__SoCo__Oltorf__St Eds__/¯SCTC¯\_ __Stassney__Will. Cannon__Slaughter B: Tech Ridge __Parmer__ Braker___Rundberg__NLTC__/¯¯¯ ¯¯Crestview¯\_Koenig__Triangle__Hyde Park__Hemphill Park__ __UT Mall__Capitol West__Woolridge Sq__Republic Sq__ __Auditorium Shores__SoCo__Oltorf__St Eds__SCTC__ __Stassney__Will. Cannon__Slaughter At first I was hesitant to support an elevated Orange Line because of NIMBY protest, but I've come around to rather liking the idea. I think the mayor and council have been relatively shrewd in publicly saying this won't take away from car travel lanes. The only thing NIMBYs love more than protecting SF zoning is protecting their driving habits. The vast majority of NIMBYs can't see Lamar/Guad from their houses and won't be impacted by the view except from their cars. If we tell them the alternative is that we take away an additional car lane then they'll fall in line even if it costs more. The number of actual NIMBYs is way overstated anyway as seen by the last council elections. I think NHM and Caleb have the right idea if they're going to aim big. The general voting public is probably going to approve a big bond by a good margin if turnout is as expected. |
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here's where you can find that document and others https://assets.adobe.com/public/a3b4...sis%20(2019-20) |
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