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sustainability / experience design / mass transit / cycling / video editing / Texan // opinions mine // I'm active on Mastodon: mastodon.social/@rcbo
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Heartbreaking news: five people, including two children were killed on I-35 in Austin in a 17 vehicle crash. We must continue to work towards safer transportation infrastructure in our cities. 💔 www.kut.org/austin/2025-...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Here is a list of town halls taking place next week that you should show up at. I am sorry, I mean Chuck Schumer’s book parties. If there are any missing, please add in the replies. The only thing he should be doing today is cleaning out his office.

submitted 7 days ago • 538 comments

How do you feel about the fact that 96% of TX transportation funds are required, according to the TX constitution, to go to highways? 😡 Join advocates from around the state to talk to legislators at the capitol about these issues! Zoom prep session: 3/23 Advocacy day: 4/3

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Some kudos to @capmetroatx.bsky.social: The new #BusRapidTransit took me from downtown to 51st St in FIFTEEN MINUTES. Literally as fast as driving. Holy hell. It was absolutely the right move to open these lines ASAP, even with long headways + diesel buses. “Done is better than perfect.” 🙌

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Austin's I-35 expansion is in Scientific American: "Widening projects are sold to the public by touting benefits that won’t last, but their unadvertised costs will remain for decades." www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Welcome to #Austin, #SXSW folks! Some tips on #bicycling, by far the best way to get around SX: Rent: - CapMetro Bikeshare bikes rock. These must be returned to stations. - Lime Bikes rock. They can be parked most places. - Adjust your seat - Be chill. If you already own a bike…

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

I know inflation & other things have made new @capmetroatx.bsky.social / ATP projects tough to deliver, but two huge things to celebrate this month: 🤳 Support for tap-to-pay & retiring the old, unintuitive app 🚌 Two new Rapid lines And all JUST IN TIME for #SXSW!

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Hey #theatre fans in #Austin: If you like #immersivetheatre like #SleepNoMore, #CheerfulSecrets, #SpeakMoMore, or that #Westworld #SXSW thing, join this happy hour! SNM just closed its doors, so let’s toast and share tales of awesome interactive theatre. 🥂 RSVP: partiful.com/e/5NKJIpZ0ET...

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

The opening night for the 37th Street Lights starts today at 6pm. Come enjoy one of the season's premier car-free street events! 🎄🥳 More info: www.kxan.com/things-to-do...

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Yes! For so long Austin’s new housing options have been “moderately-nice house or Soviet-era apartment building”. I know it costs money, but people would support dense housing if it weren’t ugly af.

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Tesla Gigafactory reportedly dumped pollutants into #Austin water "It was allegedly filled with toxins, smelled of rotten eggs and at one point, employees found a dead deer in the water." #atx #wildlife #tx #texas www.mysanantonio.com/news/austin/...

submitted 105 days ago • 2 comments

This is how to do it, kids: Home insurance is now a climate story. Put it on the front, and put "climate change" at the top. Especially now that deniers will control the federal and state government. www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/hom...

submitted 103 days ago • 269 comments

It’s official: #Rethink35 has hired an expert for the I-35 lawsuit against the harmful & ineffective #highwayexpansion in #Austin! We’re only $580 away from a generous matching goal to pay the expert. #Texas #ATX #urbanism www.zeffy.com/en-US/fundra...

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

“We don't right now have any information about who put them up. We do know that they're very professionally designed signs. They're very large. They're very well done. So someone went to a lot of trouble to put these large signs up.”

submitted 119 days ago • 20 comments

What an amazing #Rethink35 & community protest yesterday outside TxDOT's I-35 Central groundbreaking ceremony! Thank you to everyone who made it. The message was again clear: I-35 expansion is unpopular. People want a better way. Check out more protest photos: www.flickr.com/photos/19948...

submitted 141 days ago • 0 comments