Sorry for neglecting y'all. Some recent doings on rail in Austin, with crackplog links:
JMVC said with a straight face at the UTC that the Drag doesn't have enough demand to justify rail:
http://m1ek.dahmus.org/?p=768 - this, in response to pointed questioning about whether Rapid Bus precludes light rail there (hint: it does), and whether we should care (he says we shouldn't). Some picture background:
http://m1ek.dahmus.org/?p=776 and just from a few moments ago:
http://m1ek.dahmus.org/?p=782
The Alliance for Public Transportation, best represented by a few other posters here such as secretagentman, continue to be silent on this topic - as they are on everything except for Capital Metro cheerleading. Independence must be one of those words that does not mean what I think it means. Of course, when it came to yours truly asserting back when there was still time to DO something, that Rapid Bus meant no light rail here, they were quick to undermine and submarine from the courageous comfort of anonymity.
In short, folks, not only are we probably not getting half-decent rail on the Mueller alignment, because it will share lanes with buses and right-turning cars on most of the route and with everybody else on some of the route, we will likely never get rail on the Drag. Unless, you know, people start fighting.