Capital Metro has gotten the board to agree to their fee doubling in a 2-step increment. so the regular fare will go from $0.50 to $0.75 then eventually to a $1.00 fare. They claim that they need the money. This claim is false because they neglected to report that they’ve already essentially raised their fare [...]
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You may ask, “OK, what’s a punishment light?” But if you do, I know that you don’t live anywhere near Austin (or from what I hear, L.A.) Punishment Light: (n) – Traffic light with exceptionally long cycle time (Often 5 mins or more, for no apparent or logical reason) placed there by sadistic Department of [...]
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A district-based Austin City Council up for debate again In an unexpected, and bold move, a concerned citizen from East Austin has the city council considering a proposal to once again put single-member districts on the ballot for 2008. Unfortunately, due to group stupidity ignorance another misguided citizen is passing around a petition to prevent [...]
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Capital Metro board backs away from fare increase plan First the French come to their senses… Now taxing authorities in Travis County are actually backing down from stupidity? At the behest of the people? Can it be true? Surprisingly enough, at least in this case, it seems true. The Austin-American Statesman’s Ben Wear reports that [...]
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<RANT> Yesterday morning, the Editorial Board at The Austin-American Statesman posted an entry dated August 23 in favor of the 100-300% (for certain passengers) fare increase proposed by the Capital Metro administrative staff to the Capital Metro board… And last night at their open meeting, the public gave them a resounding NO. It seems not [...]
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