It’s “time to get serious about fixing Austin’s traffic,” says a headline at KVUE. However, no one quoted in the article is actually willing to get serious about fixing Austin’s traffic.
Instead, the article is exclusively about Project Connect, a front group that has promoted light rail for Capital Metro, Austin’s transit agency. All of the “solutions” discussed in the article involve transit, including light rail and dedicated bus lanes, both of which will actually increase congestion.
Here’s why transit won’t work to fix traffic in Austin, which by some measures is the nation’s fastest-growing urban area. Between 2010 and 2015, the Austin urban area grew by 220,000 people, or 3.0 percent per year. Transit passenger miles, meanwhile, grew by 3.5 percent per year. Sounds pretty good so far.
However, highway driving grew by 5.9 percent per year. In 2015, transit carried less than 0.8 percent of the motorized passenger miles traveled in the Austin area and the annual growth in highway travel is more than six times transit’s total passenger miles in 2015.
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That means if Austin could somehow double transit ridership every two months, and if all of those new transit rides came from people who would otherwise travel by car, it still would not be enough to halt the growth in driving.
Of course, Capital Metro is far from doubling ridership every two months, or even every two decades. Despite Austin’s rapid growth, it has taken 21 years to double transit’s passenger miles (and even longer to double transit trips as trip lengths have growth with the growth of the urban area).
In short, twice nothing is still nothing and twice Capital Metro’s current transit ridership is so close to being nothing that it is irrelevant. Anyone who wants to get truly serious about fixing Austin traffic will ignore transit and look to other solutions.
Most voters think rail and busses and transit reduce congestion, and that is why they vote for it. That myth needs to be destroyed and should be a priority for transit spending opponents.
Government is anti-rail, roads are not expected to be profitable to survive. :$
http://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/hamilton-county/2017/07/31/vote-kills-state-fair-train-good-clears-way-new-hamilton-county-greenway/525141001/
Because Indiana badly needs a train???
Why not build a bike path next to the track, instead of stealing the track?
We already see plenty of sidewalks next to roads. :$
I just came back from Europe, and pretty much everyone drives a car there too.
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Why not build a bike path next to the track, instead of stealing the track?
” ~ the highwayman
The port authority owns the right of way and the track. There is nothing being stolen.
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(and even longer to double transit trips as trip lengths have growth with the growth of the urban area).
” ~anti-planner
growth with the growth?
Did you mean, “…have grown with the growth…” ?
Still theft :$
Frank is right; Andrew is literally mentally ill. One-track mind. Who the f**k “stole” the tracks, idiot?
Legalized theft, is still theft.
I’m not saying don’t have streets, sidewalks or bike paths. Yet a bike path be next to a railroad too. There’s no need to steal railroads for bike paths. :$
Note that on his FB liked pages is
Asperger’s Syndrome Awareness.
Run his behavior here through an Asperger’s test:
Not pick up on social cues and may lack inborn social skills, such as being able to read others’ body language, start or maintain a conversation, and take turns talking. Check.
Appear to lack empathy. Check.
Talk a lot, usually about a favorite subject. One-sided conversations are common. Internal thoughts are often verbalized. Check.
A significant and encompassing preoccupation or obsession with one or two restricted topics, that is abnormal either in intensity, subject or focus (such as choo choo trains). Check.
Difficulty cultivating friendships. They may not connect with their peers due to a lack of social skills. Check.
Teahadi logic; Break stuff, then complain that it doesn’t work :$
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Why not build a bike path next to the track, instead of stealing the track?
” ~ the highwayman
prk166 reply: The port authority owns the right of way and the track. There is nothing being stolen.
~ the highwayman then replies “Still stolen”
Highwayman, if you want to be a contrarian around here, fine. If you have something to discuss, fine. But there is no point of being a mindless, babbling baby making meaningless noises. It’s no different that some childish high schooler TPing their buddies house. Could ya grow up and find something else to do rather than come around here to fling your babbling diarrhea?