Jace Deloney
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Moving People Over Automobiles
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Last week, I shot footage of morning traffic on the South 1st Street Bridge to illustrate how poorly we use urban space in Austin. In the video, you will notice that all Northbound vehicles are stuck in the same traffic regardless of how many people they are moving. Each lane on the bridge carries around 40 vehicles, […]
Port Arthur Economic Development Plan Is Blowing Up
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Earlier this year, I shared a photo with my friends at Strong Towns showing how drastically my hometown of Port Arthur, Texas had changed over the past hundred years. The scene above isn’t all that newsworthy given the same process is taking place across US cities that reached their apex during the 20th Century. What is newsworthy, though, […]
The Promise of Real-Time, Open Transit Data in Austin
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How many times have you waited at the bus stop wondering when your bus is going to show up? For me, there is nothing more frustrating than having to guess whether my bus has already passed my stop or is only a few minutes away from arriving. Luckily for Austin transit riders, CapMetro is about to […]
Ridership Woes For CapMetro Continue in 2014
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With transit ridership increasing to record highs, 2014 was a year of optimism for many transit agencies across the US. Thanks to the economic recovery, many agencies that were previously focusing their efforts on mere survival have begun to expand and improve service. Seattle’s King County Metro Transit, for example, attributes their record ridership numbers to improved service and […]