Alliance For Public Transportation

05/31/2023

A local multi-billion-dollar mass transit project is still on track despite efforts in the just-ended legislative session aimed at derailing it. Project Connect is moving forward with a slimmed-down initial plan to create a new light rail service connecting Central Austin with South Austin and East Riverside.

A local multi-billion-dollar mass transit project is still on track despite efforts in the just-ended legislative session aimed at derailing it. Project Connect

05/23/2023

HOT OFF THE PRESSES -- Austin Transit Partnership releases its Staff Recommendation for the Light Rail Implementation Plan!

The Austin Transit Partnership (ATP) appreciates the tremendous amount of input we have received from Austinites as we work to expand and improve our public tra

05/17/2023

Austin is turning heads across the US by "sending a clear message that a flood of new residents doesn’t have to be followed by a flood new asphalt."

One of America’s fastest-growing cities has eliminated parking minimums citywide, sending a clear message that a flood of new residents doesn’t have to be followed by a flood new asphal…

05/16/2023

“You have to make people happy against their will,” he says. “Don’t try to find this consensus for everything, especially on things on mobility, because you will not convince everybody. All the projects we did faced opposition, but in the end, most of them were accepted because they were good projects.”

Known as one of the most car-oriented European capitals, Brussels has embarked on a mobility makeover that could be a model for US cities.

05/10/2023

"Despite frequent assertions to the contrary, mass transportation is not a public good, and declaring it to be one does not justify dropping fares"

When boosters of mass transportation invoke this economic term, they risk muddling the argument for why transit is worth subsidizing.

05/03/2023

Thank you AURA for your critical analysis and recommendation for the intial phase of

Posted on April 25, 2023April 25, 2023 by AURA ATXProject Connect Working Group Recommends On-Street 38th to Oltorf to Yellow Jacket Light Rail Option The AURA Project Connect Working Group has diligently built an evaluation framework over the past few weeks to analyze all light rail options and the...

05/02/2023

"They found that “losing all bus stops in a census tract leads to a 5.1 percentage point increase in the rate and a 4.5 percentage point increase in the rate,” according to the paper." https://governing.com/community/new-evidence-links-transit-cuts-with-poverty-and-unemployment

When bus service was eliminated for five years in Clayton County, in the Atlanta metro area, residents endured substantial increases in poverty and unemployment rates.

04/03/2023

ALERT & PLEASE SHARE: HB 3899 will be heard on Wed, April 5th. If passed, it would require further elections for any of the parts of that require a bond (such as light rail) even though Prop A set up the funding for the system passed overwhelmingly in 2020. It will create more risk (making it harder to get outside funding), increase delays, and cause costs to swell.

FRIENDS -- Please consider visiting the Texas Capitol on Wed (4/5) to "drop a card" at the committee that day to show opposition to the legislation in its current form. As we all know, Project Connect is critical to our community's future and we ask that you make your voices known about its benefits and help stop efforts to slow us down.

THE HEARING STARTS AT 8 AM in the Texas House Pensions, Investments & Financial Services Committee --- in Room E2.014 of the Capital Extension.

03/31/2023

SUPER HELPFUL tradeoffs explainer from Councilmember Chito Vela https://mailchi.mp/3bced0e17b2e/district-4-agenda-items-to-watch-9344717?e=16b8249aba

03/29/2023

The Red Line Tour is back! Join Transit Forward & Los Verdes on April 15th for a brewery hop starting downtown and ending at Q2 Stadium. Some of the breweries will offer drink specials and the first 100 attendees will get a free collapsible water bottle provided by CapMetro.

03/17/2023

Great recap of where we're going and where we've been in planning for

Austinites will soon get a preview of Project Connect light rail design considerations on the table at an open house March 21.