Monthly Archives: February 2016

INTERIM 6 Points from Austin Mayor Adler on Ride Share

Austin Mayor Adler has a piece in Trib Talk about ride share entitled, Innovation is the way forward for Austin and Uber/Lyft. 

His main points:

  • an election is costly, and that money could be spent on other projects
  • forcing a hand on ordinances isn’t the Austin way
  • he wants to keep Uber and Lyft in Austin
  • he supports independent, third-party, cross-platform, virtual badges or validators that we call the Austin Thumbs Up! badge via 
  • Austin Thumbs Up! would utilize 3rd parties to…

6 Points from Sen. Konnie Burton Op Ed on TEX Rail

  • 27 miles of rail has an enormous price tag of $998.78 million
  • local officials are aggressively pushing it & have not secured funding
  • “our community” hasn’t signaled a “desire” for mass transit, even Travis County voted before they approved rail & we haven’t
  • local officials are  entering into a deal with the” irrational and fiscally irresponsible federal government”
  • it won’t have an impact on traffic congestion based on the environmental impact study
  • rail projects attract high earners…

State Guts Mass Transportation Funding. 3 Bits of Informed Intel.

What state is gutting its mass transit budget? Colorado is moving a bill that would remove mass transit funding

What impact would this have on local government mass transit projects? 

  • There would be no state grants to local transit agencies
  • Transportation officials also say it means “lost funding opportunities for organizations that provide transportation services for the elderly and people with disabilities”

Which party is pushing this? Republican

The Gazette | Bill would gut…