12 Reasons to Vote NO on the City of Austin’s $7-10B Light Rail Plan

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New, Expensive Transit and Density Do Not Boost Transit Ridership

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Does Transit Capital Spending Boost Ridership?

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The Future of Transportation

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The $1.4 Billion Transit Fund the U.S. Government Won’t Release

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Transit Investments in an Age of Uncertainty

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The Five Myths About Suburbia and Our Car-Happy Culture

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Top Reasons People Stop Using Public Transit

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The proportion of the labor force working from home continues to grow

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Six Problems with Rail Transit and Six Myths of Rail Transit

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Project Connect will Waste Billions of Taxpayer Dollars & Fail

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