Austin adds 10 miles to proposed urban rail system
Check out the new urban rail map that was unveiled last week at a transit planning task force meeting. What do you think about the new proposed map?
The city and Cap Metro are nearing a deal that would provide weekend MetroRail service. The trains would run until midnight on Fridays, and on Saturdays, likely would run hourly in both directions from 4 p.m. to midnight, officials have said.
Parking crunch at Red Bud Isle, but problem not a city priority
West Austin residents drawn to the leash-free city park at Red Bud Isle say parking there is chronically scant, but the city says finding a solution isn’t at the top of their to-do list. What do you think should be done about parking?
Capital Metro and the City of Austin, despite a televised report to the contrary and a pending item on the City Council’s Feb. 9 agenda, have not yet sealed a deal to add MetroRail runs on Friday nights and Saturdays.
The move to expand MoPac Boulevard, which for several years has crawled along like 5 p.m. traffic on that overloaded highway, is about to enter the express lane.
“I would characterize it as a green-light go,” Mike Heiligenstein, executive director of the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority, said last week.
The mobility authority, deputized by the Texas Department of Transportation to develop the project, has refined what it will do: add a fourth express toll lane on each side of MoPac (Loop 1) from just north of Lady Bird Lake to near Parmer Lane in far North Austin.
The Texas Transportation Commission, reacting to a law passed last spring and signed into law by Gov. Rick Perry, today approved raising the speed limit to 75 mph on about 1,500 miles of interstate highways in Texas.
A new day for Austin bike sharing
Austin could be getting a bike-sharing program similar to one in place in San Antonio. A combination of federal grant money and private funds would provide the funding to make it a reality.
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Construction crews will be working on flyovers around the MoPac and 290 area near Brodie Lane, and are shutting down Mopac in the area from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. Saturday and Sunday.
You’ve been warned.
Speed limits are going up around Central Texas thanks to changes in state law. Some sections of Interstate-35 north of Austin will be as high as 75 miles per hour.
Yesterday, the National Transportation Safety Board recommended an outright ban on cell phones and texting while driving.
Officials in Central Texas largely support the ban, but ultimately say it’s up to state legislators to decide whether to impose such a ban.
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