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Roger Baker : Have We Turned the Corner on Peak Driving?
A window on peak driving. Image from The Auto Channel.Coming soon:Peak oil, peak driving, peak cars Part II: Have we turned the corner on peak driving? By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / June 23, 2011 This is the … Continue reading
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Roger Baker : Austin’s New Transportation Plan Throws a Few Curves
Bumpy road ahead?Austin’s new long-range transportation plan By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / March 23, 2010 The background The Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (CAMPO) recently unveiled its new 2035 long-range draft transportation plan; “People, Planning and Preparing … Continue reading
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Central Texas Roads : Not Enough Money or (Soon) Water
This graphic from the Austin American-Statesman presents an optimistic funding projection.Road Planners face huge budget shortfalls, try to ignore looming water shortages By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / September 20, 2009 Consider the emerging factors affecting most transportation … Continue reading
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Transportation politics and the Austin road lobby
Part 2: The Austin road lobby: Texas transportation politics, the developers/ and those pesky populist reformers. By Roger Baker | The Rag Blog | June 22, 2009 [This is the second part of a series on transportation in Austin. In … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Community Organizing, Environmental Groups, Lobbyists, Texas Legislature, Transportation, TXDot
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Is Austin drowning in traffic growth?
Part 1: Is Austin drowning in ever-increasing traffic? Think again; top road lobby myth debunked! By Roger Baker | The Rag Blog | June 8, 2009 [This is the first of a two-part series by the Rag Blog’s Roger Baker … Continue reading
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Texas Toll Road 183-A: The economics and the special interests
Shrinking traffic increases could mean bond default problems for US 183-A. By Roger Baker | The Rag Blog | February 18, 2009 The road lobby operates as a sort of well-funded shadow government, organized to overcome citizen opposition to unpopular … Continue reading
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Texas Toll Road Soup : The Environment, Federal Funding and Peak Oil
U.S. 281 N Toll Road near San Antonio. ‘”It’s been obvious to us from day one that TxDOT was willing to do and say anything to get a toll road on U.S. 281,” said Terri Hall of Texans Uniting for … Continue reading
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Tagged Environment, Peak Oil, Texas, Texas Highways, Toll Roads, Transportation, TXDot
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Toll Roads : Soon to be Yesterday’s News?
Toll road protest in California earlier this year.‘Ordinary people will look back on this era, shake their heads in wonder and ask: how on earth did anyone ever think toll roads were sexy?’By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / … Continue reading
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Tagged Economy, Energy, Finance, Oil Prices, Peak Oil, Public Finance, Texas, Texas Highways, Toll Roads, Transportation
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Texas : Raiding Pension Funds to Build Toll Roads
Northbound Texas Toll 130 at the Exit 426 off-ramp. This toll road northeast of Austin opened for traffic in 2006.‘An irresponsible and immoral idea”By Paul Burka / August 23, 2008 I doubt whether Rick Perry, David Dewhurst, or Tom Craddick … Continue reading
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Funding Texas Highways
[Here is something I posted on the ANC (Austin Neighborhoods Council list) yesterday, intended to raise the key issue of just where TxDOT plans to go to borrow the half billion dollars they need but don’t have, to build the … Continue reading
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Peak Driving, Peak Cars By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / June 22, 2011 Tell the average U.S. car owner that total driving in the USA might have already peaked forever, and they are likely to think you’re crazy. … Continue reading
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Austin : Toll Road Situation a Mess
Transportation policy: CAMPO about to make a big mistake.By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / November 17, 2008 AUSTIN — The Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (CAMPO) may be about to make a great historic mistake in transportation policy; … Continue reading
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