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Streetcar dreams: Now it’s time to talk money
Streetcar from VIA Metropolitan Transit report (looks like it's in Portland). After starting the fiscal year by shaving $19 million in spending, including 330 jobs, the city is now being asked to kick...
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2005 Dodge Caravan 4th anniversary
This is somewhat obscure but while searching through papers for the upcoming tax adventure, I happened upon the original sales document for my 2005 Dodge Caravan which I purchased exactly four years...
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No takers on US 281 comparison study
After last October’s contentious MPO meeting where a motion to remove all toll options for US 281 and Loop 1604 was voted down, MPO policy board members voted to have a study done comparing the toll...
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Massive Loop 1604 study goes back to the public
The top ideas on how to add lanes to almost half of Loop 1604 will be laid out in a series of three public meetings this week so officials can get input. With gas taxes strangled by decades of...
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What’s in store for your Loop 1604 commute?
People mill about at a meeting earlier tonight for Loop 1604 Here’s the gist of what’s being laid out, in a series of public meetings wrapping up tonight, for Loop 1604’s future. The problem, officials...
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Latest US 281 public meeting tomorrow
Artist's rendering of possible elevated expressway at 281 and Evans The Alamo Regional Mobility Authority will be holding the third public meeting on its Environmental Impact Statement for the US 281...
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Terri vs Bruce
Bruce Davidson, one of members of the Express-News’ editorial board, wrote a spot-on editorial in yesterday’s paper about how the root cause of toll roads is the Legislature’s and Governor’s resistance...
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AGUA files suit to stop 281/1604 interchange
In what really isn’t a surprise (at least to me), the enviro-wackos at Aquifer Guardians in Urban Areas (AGUA) have filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the planned US 281/Loop 1604 interchange project,...
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Big plans for Texas’ worst highway (including tolls and rail)
Planners and pundits have long decried Interstate 35 as Texas’ worst highway. Notorious traffic backups and numerous crashes on I-35, especially on the stretch from San Antonio to Austin, have spawned...
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Why haven’t they widened Loop 1604?
A sign on Loop 1604 in 1983 – It’s just true today as it was then! One of the biggest gripes among San Antonio drivers is that Loop 1604 North, from roughly Bandera Rd. to I-35 on the northeast side,...
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