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8/8/2019 Sensible Transportation Solutions for Austin - Statesman Ad

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Relocate utilities in preparation for great streets and

bus platforms for Rapid Bus on Lavaca/Guadalupe

IH 35 Corridor

Riverside Multi-modal improvements

3rd St Reconstruction / Lance Armstrong Bieway

Reconstruct Manchaca and add Bie Lanes

and sidewals on Manchaca

MLk Corridor

kramer Lane Multi-Use Trail

Boardwal Trail at Lady Bird Lae

Waller Cree Street and Trail Improvements and

Sabine St / 6th St Pedestrian Promenade

Airport Blvd Corridor (Lamar to US 183)

Mopac Corridor

Guadalupe Bicycle Facilities: 45th St to 24th St

4th St @ IH 35 Crossing Improvements

Johnston Terrace Safe Route to School

US 183 between US 290 and US 71

Trafc Signal Improvements

7th St and 8th St Conversion to Two-Way

Bie Crossing at Jollyville @ US 183

Manor Rd Redesign

Pleasant Valley 5th St to 7th St

Intersection Improvements

RM 620 Corridor Improvements at RM 2222

Congress Ave Widening 1.1 mile gap at William Cannon

Brodie Ln Sidewals

Dessau/Cameron Bie Lanes

Rundberg Extension: Metric to Burnet

Rundberg Extension: Cameron to Ferguson

Continuous Bie Lane on Barton Springs Rd

“Y” at Oa Hill Roadway ImprovementsIH 35 / E 51st St Interchange

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Travis County Partnership Program

ADA Compliance Program

Signals / Management / Improvements

Trafc Calm / Matching / Quiet Zone

General PBT Program Fund

Corridor Preservation

Roadway Reconstruction

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Highway

Ped / Sidewal / Bicycle

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Ped / Sidewal / Bicycle

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Mobility Trail

Mobility Trail

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Ped / Sidewal

Ped / Sidewal

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Arterial

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25% Trail Street / 75% Arterial

Ped / Sidewal

Intersection

Neighborhood Street

Ped / Sidewal / Bicycle

Arterial

30% Arterial / 70% Neighborhood

  northwest

$700,000

$465,000

$400,000

$1,400,000

$2,965,000

$2,000,000

$728,994

$179,982

$481,000

$2,345,000

$8,699,976

  10%

  northeast

$450,000

$430,000

$725,000

$150,000

$860,000

$2,300,000

$4,915,000

$2,000,000

$1,500,000

$728,994

$439,946

$481,000

$2,800,000

$12,864,940

  14%

  southwest

$100,000

$300,000

$500,000

$4,000,000

$4,900,000

$1,500,000

$728,994

$1,800,090

$481,000

$2,500,000

$11,910,084

  13%

  southeast

$600,000

$100,000

$700,000

$2,000,000

$3,500,000

$728,994

$100,000

$2,431,000

$8,455,000

$17,914,994

  20%

Central / CBD

$2,000,000

$8,000,000

$2,700,000

$650,000

$200,000

$250,000

$465,000

$750,000

$15,015,000

$1,500,000

$728,994

$179,982

$481,000

$1,900,000

$19,804,976

  22%

  regional

$1,000,000

$14,400,000

$100,000

$250,000

$15,750,000

$555,030

$1,000,000

$1,500,000

$18,805,030

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$44,245,000

$4,000,000

$10,000,000

$4,200,000

$2,700,000

$4,355,000

$1,000,000

$19,500,000

$90,000,000

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What about MoPac? Most who have

the pleasure of daily rush hour(s)

there know all about heavy trafc.

Austin has 11 of the top 100 worst

trafc spots in Texas, according to

the Texas Dept. of Transportation,

yet Prop. 1 spends just 3% of its

budget on only one of them. 183?

MoPac? Forget it. Think sidewalks.

3. Cs m cgs. 

Removing existing trafc lanes for

sidewalks and bike lanes will conse-

quently increase congestion on key

streets. If you like 2nd Street, you’re

going to love the proposed 3rd Street

reconstruction (and reduction).

For a preview, stroll down Brazos

or Colorado Streets. Fewer lanes of

trafc are better, right? Converting

7th and 8th to two-way streets is

yet another “inspired improvement”

(also being proposed for 9th, 10th,

Brazos, Colorado, San Jacinto and

Trinity in the next 5 years). ejy! 

4. ud 25% f fc.

Somehow, less than a quarter of the

money is earmarked for increasing

automobile capacity on our already

congested roads. It’s nice to have

amenities such as trails and prome-

nades, but we desperately need relief

for Austin’s trafc-jammed streets.

5. i dds cpcy.

Though the bond’s proponents

tout increased trafc capacity, the

city counts pedestrians, bikes and,

presumably, pogo sticks as cars.

So while it may get easier to walk

around, the drive home is still going

to be a slow, frustrating process.

6. nghhds ls ag.Much of the money is being spent

in and around downtown. No sur-

prises here. The vast majority of the

budget labeled as “regional”, for in-

stance, will be spent in or adjoining

downtown. They must believe the

neighborhoods won’t notice or care.

7. ams mp fc.

$14.4 million would be spent on

boardwalks. Will these reduce trafc

congestion? Of course not. And in

the absence of rush hour pedestrian

gridlocks, it makes little sense to

spend such a large proportion of our

limited funds on what can only be

called a nice extra if we could afford

it. Council also says it won’t increase

taxes. Really? They probably just

“forgot” to remove that phrase from

the ballot language. (See the last two 

lines of bond language in Reason 1.)

8. i vs fh dss.

Approval will lay the groundwork for

a much larger folly. 2012 ballot plans

include a $1.5bIllIon trolley

(with $23 million in annual operating

costs) which promises to replicate

Cap Metro’s riderless rail asco on

a far grander scale, rob basic and

social services budgets and still do

nothing for neighborhoods. hw

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trafc bonds ha don’ help rafc? Paid for by Sensible Transportation Solutions for Austin PAC, P.O.Box 43, Austin, TX 78767, 512-450-5108, Dominic Chavez, former President, Castlewood-Oa Valley Neighborhood Association, Treasurer

Thedevilisinthedetails. The City of Austin’s Proposition 1 Bond budget breakdown is below. Readcarefully.  Ishidingthetruththesameasnottellingthetruth? You decide.

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1. i’s vy, vy dcpv.

Here’s the language you’ll see on

the ballot. One long, deceptive

sentence that’s gobbledygook; legal

duck speak that gives approval for

what you’ll actually be getting as

shown in the chart below. The chart

lists expenditures they knew would

never get a “Yes” from a majority of

Austin’s voters if they gave us the

opportunity to vote on them sepa-

rately. (Politicos call it “bundling”.)

“The issuance of $90,000,000 in tax sup-

ported general obligation bonds and notes for

constructing and reconstructing roads and

streets; constructing, improving and recon-

structing sidewalks, bikeways, and other bi-

cycle and pedestrian mobility infrastructure;

improving trafc signal synchronization andcontrol systems; acquiring and installing traf-

c signals; constructing, reconstructing, and

improving drainage facilities related to these

improvements; funding design and engineer-

ing for roads, streets, drainage, trafc signal,

sidewalks, bikeways, and other bicycle and pe-

destrian mobility infrastructure; and acquir-

ing land and interests in land and property

necessary to do so; and the levy of tax suf-

cient to pay for the bonds and notes.” 

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