My Emergency Quarter Has Been Called Up
CapMetro approved its first fare increase since 2015, so the 2015 quarter that has lived in my cupholder for eleven years finally has a job. I gave it a briefing. It did not take it well.
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I Have Waited for Every Train This Town Ever Promised Me
MetroRail is dark through Thursday so crews can work on the North Burnet/Uptown station, due in 2027. I spent the morning on an empty platform tallying every Austin train I've waited for, real or theoretical.
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I Wrote Three Minutes of Public Comment and Delivered Them to My Kitchen
A tentative bus contract and a $295 million parks and library bond landed in the same week, so I timed myself on a dime-store egg timer and gave City Hall a piece of my mind from a kitchen chair.
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Nobody Called the Insurance Guy
A fire took out about $159,000 in bikeshare gear that nobody had insured. As a lifelong self-insurer of stolen bikes and stolen coolers, I'd like to welcome the city to the club.
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Stop Log, East Riverside, No Roof Included
With CapMetro bus workers authorizing a strike, I spent an afternoon at an unshaded bus stop keeping a log. The bus came. The shade never did.
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Lost Property Report No. 2020-A
I still have the 2020 light-rail mailer on my fridge, so I filed a lost property report for everything that's gone missing from it since: one tunnel, one airport leg, and roughly six years.
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