Austinist: TxDOT Plans to Expand MoPac - Meeting Tonight

Jen

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:29:09 -0600

My incentive for NOT riding the bus is due to the scent of human crap on the last one I rode. Also, the population of Austin is growing at an exponential rate - and like it or not, a lot of these people will have cars. Public transportation is important, but so is a new, cleaner, and safer system. You ride the bus everyday, and I'll get 20 blocks down the street in 5 minutes instead of 3 hours.

M1EK

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:46:21 -0600

there's no incentive today to take the bus. A well-enforced well-designed bus lane (i.e. HOV) would provide such an incentive, but that's a big couple of ifs. "barely" separated facilities like this one is shaping up to be usually mean that people in that lane must merge all the way back to the right to take the same exit as normal traffic, which is a deal-killer unless you're going a very very very long way in that HOV lane.

SmartiePants

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:29:45 -0600

Wow, that is so brilliant! What if we got rid of all the highways? That way we could cut down on all the sprawl, no?