Both Roads and Transit
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Rush-hour traffic at Sixth and Lamar, looking eastward Courtesy of the Austin Transportation Department
Rush-hour traffic at Sixth and Lamar, looking eastward Courtesy of the Austin Transportation Department
Both Roads and Transit
Counting on traffic fixes
“Reduce driver frustration.” While the city Transportation Department‘s new Austin Mobility Program has other noble goals – faster commutes, economic vitality, improved air quality, climate remediation – the frustration factor strikes everybody. So over the past month, the relatively new department and its director, Rob Spillar, have begun rolling out a program to make Austin driving less of a headache. It includes three strands:
1) a Downtown circulation study;
2) a Strategic Mobility Plan, for which the city is seeking a consultant team; and
3) an Urban Rail Program, for which it’s already partnering with outside firms on the initial engineering, design, environmental work, and cost estimating required to prepare for a November 2010 transportation bond referendum.
via Austin Chronicle
