Post by Logan on Jun 5, 2016 21:33:07 GMT -6
As City Council members careen toward their first chat with the public over a potentially massive mobility bond, a new proposal for light rail investment has risen up from the grassroots.
On Thursday, the nonprofit Central Austin Community Development Corporation announced that it had shared with Council members its vision for a 5.3 mile, $397.5 million route that would connect Crestview Station on North Lamar Boulevard to Republic Square Park in downtown Austin.
“Mayor (Steve) Adler declared this the ‘Year of Mobility,’” the CACDC’s Andrew Clemens told the Austin Monitor. “If we’re serious about making the November bond issue about mobility, we’ve known for 40 years that the best place to put our initial light rail line is on Guadalupe and North Lamar.”
The proposed route would be the initial segment of a longer line that would eventually stretch from north of U.S. Highway 183 down to Pleasant Valley Road and William Cannon Boulevard, according to a map drawn up by the CACDC. The line largely parallels the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s three highest-ridership bus routes — the 1, the 803 and the 7 — which had a combined average of nearly 20,000 weekday boardings in spring 2015.
Read more: www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2016/06/light-rail-proposal-joins-mobility-bond-discussion/
On Thursday, the nonprofit Central Austin Community Development Corporation announced that it had shared with Council members its vision for a 5.3 mile, $397.5 million route that would connect Crestview Station on North Lamar Boulevard to Republic Square Park in downtown Austin.
“Mayor (Steve) Adler declared this the ‘Year of Mobility,’” the CACDC’s Andrew Clemens told the Austin Monitor. “If we’re serious about making the November bond issue about mobility, we’ve known for 40 years that the best place to put our initial light rail line is on Guadalupe and North Lamar.”
The proposed route would be the initial segment of a longer line that would eventually stretch from north of U.S. Highway 183 down to Pleasant Valley Road and William Cannon Boulevard, according to a map drawn up by the CACDC. The line largely parallels the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s three highest-ridership bus routes — the 1, the 803 and the 7 — which had a combined average of nearly 20,000 weekday boardings in spring 2015.
Read more: www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2016/06/light-rail-proposal-joins-mobility-bond-discussion/