The results are in. After weeks of surveys, town hall meetings, and other public engagement efforts, Mobility Talks is complete and a report has been published. Mobility Talks was a city initiative launched this spring to learn about the community’s priorities for improving Austin’s transportation network. More than...
At a Chamber of Commerce meeting last week, Adler announced his new plans for a potential mobility bond, and made the pitch that transportation improvements are necessary to improve affordability in Austin. Highlights of the mayor's mobility bond proposal include: Building smarter corridors along North and South Lamar,...
What should we do about I-35? It's a question local leaders have long been asking, even floating around the idea of paying for improvements through a bond election in November. Last week, State Senator Kirk Watson released a few big ideas of his own, which he says could...
An effort to fund additional bike lanes in Austin hit its first major roadblock earlier this month. Austin's Bond Oversight Commission voted against sending a recommendation to City Council to consider placing a bike bond on the November ballot. The failed recommendation called for the funding of 220 miles...
In case you missed it - Prop 1 was defeated on earlier this month by 12 points, with 56 percent of voters rejecting the position taken by Uber and Lyft. Voter turnout was 17 percent. As a reminder, the rejection of Prop 1 means that an ordinance passed...
Eight million dollars. That's how much Uber and Lyft have spent this year campaigning in Austin. The latest round of finance reports reveal that the two companies contributed $5 million in the last month alone to Ridesharing Works for Austin, the political action committee that...
Remember last month when President Obama came to town? The city feared his visit would bring along a traffic nightmare. The opposite happened. Austinites listened to the Mayor's recommendations to work from home and the city saw astonishing reductions in traffic. Travel times on that day...
The Uber/Lyft debate continued last week when Mayor Adler officially came out against Prop 1. In a written statement, Adler said that while he doesn't think that either Prop 1 choice is best for Austin, he will be voting against Prop 1 because, "such a vote...
As part of his continued focus on transportation, Mayor Adler recently finished an innovation exchange trip to Europe with the US Secretary of Transportation as part of the Smart City Challenge. (As a reminder, Austin is one of seven finalist for the challenge. If we win, Austin will...
Interested in taking a deeper dive into the city's transportation system? The Austin Transportation Department released its 2015 Annual Report last week, providing an overview of everything the department did in the past year. Highlights from the 2015 report include: 28 miles of new bike lanes installed 4...