Shawn Shillington

The money comes from existing taxes (mainly). This bond is small enough that the city can pay it without having to raise the tax rate, but the city still has to pay back the bonds after they are issue...

I like that you say "You want new roads?" in the same way a McDonald's cashier says "You want fries with that?"...

I don't think voting no on this proposal is the best way to tell council that Austinites are fed up with subsidizing suburban sprawl, given that several of the projects and a substantial portion of th...

I have a hard time seeing Austin's city government providing the kind of subsidies I would have expected it would take to bring this in, but I guess we will see. Press release seems to indicate that t...

This is because people overestimate the likelihood of dying in a spectacular way (like getting gunned down in the street) and underestimate the likelihood of dying in a mundane way (like getting in a ...

I added a link to you, to what I think is a valid point that this line covers a lot of miles, but serves a very small number of people. My hope is that the urban rail plan will do what you advocate - ...

What I understand to be the current proposal is here: http://shawnshillington.com/ProposedAustinRailMap.pdf...

While I agree in general, I'm not sure your point is accurate here. My understanding is that Northcross is now, and under both the original proposal and the current proposal would be, almost completel...

I thought that was what I said - "the parking garage has been removed." I tweaked the language in the post to make it clearer. I'm not sure it matter much either way. I don't think denser suburban is...

Part of the plan is to add a bike trail through the Gables apartments that would go under the railroad tracks and connect to Third Street east of Lamar. See the first link in the post for a map and he...

I started using the LAB, and I've gotten to liking it much more than the hike and bike trail, both from the perspective of not dodging joggers and riding on concrete instead of gravel. As long as you ...

Thanks. Corrected....

Do they have a frighteningly high rate of traffic related deaths? I had a hard time getting apples to apples stats, but it seemed to me that they had about the same rate of traffic related deaths that...

Amazing set....

I thought our defense looked great. Last year they were a little soft, but they put it down on Tech....