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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
ToTal
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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PrjctTyp
Transit
Highway
Ped / Sidewal / Bicycle
Arterial
Ped / Sidewal / Bicycle
Arterial
Mobility Trail
Mobility Trail
Ped / Sidewal
Arterial
Highway
Bicycle
Ped / Sidewal
Ped / Sidewal
Intersection
Arterial
Bicycle
Arterial
Intersection
Intersection
Arterial
Ped / Sidewal
Bicycle
Arterial
Arterial
Bicycle
IntersectionHighway
DitriutdPrrm
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
21%
$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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