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Don’t tell anyone, but it is possible to never be in traffic in LA 👋✌️
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Michael Schneider
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tali mika sofi’s dad @katerinamarkov’s husband, LA native. Serial tech entrepreneur. Urbanist. Founder @streetsforall. Campaign manager @healthystreetla.
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Every time I landed in Austin for SXSW it was a shit show of Ubers and Lyfts, with no other good way to get into the city.
This can't come soon enough.
Over/under on if the extension opens before the LAX people mover?
This can't come soon enough.
Over/under on if the extension opens before the LAX people mover?
Latest #WatsonWire: It’s time to start the process to get rail to the airport.
For years, our Austin Bergstrom International Airport (ABIA or AUS) operated beyond the capacity it was originally designed to accommodate. That’s a sign of success, and a reminder that we can’t build Austin’s future relying on infrastructure designed for its past.
We need to envision a successful future and prepare for it.
The “Journey With AUS” expansion project is delivering significant improvements in building the kind of airport a growing, globally connected city like Austin needs for decades to come.
As we build a better airport, we also need to think about how we’re going to get people there to catch their flights and how to get them out of there to participate in our city.
A world-class airport needs a multimodal, world-class transportation system to connect to it. Sure, we need to improve roadway access. And we also should give people more choices about how they travel.
We need to have the same long-term vision for Austin light rail that we’ve had for ABIA.
An airport rail connection has been part of Austin’s long-term transportation vision for years. With Journey with AUS, we have a chance to plan these projects strategically rather than trying to connect them after the fact.
Until now, Austin Transit Partnership (ATP) has appropriately prioritized navigating the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) process for phase 1 of our system. This year, ATP received the important Record of Decision (ROD) from FTA and completed, in record time, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process for phase 1.
In addition to getting the ROD and completing the NEPA process, I’ve wanted all major design and construction contracts in place and assurance that all of our financial decision-making is guided by a financial stewardship protocol before ATP takes any other big next steps.
We have the ROD, the NEPA process is complete, the major contracts are in place, and the financial stewardship protocol is being followed.
With these important milestones met, we can now take a major step: ATP will start the planning activities for a potential extension to take Austin light rail all the way to the airport.
Read more: bit.ly/TrainWireView quoted post on X
Miami has these automated people mover-style pods all over downtown. And $2 Metro rail to the airport.
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