Keep Mopac Local
You may have heard that Hays County is asking Travis County to spend close to $20 million on a new road to connect South Mopac to FM 1626. Long term plans are to connect MoPac to IH-35. This will make MoPac gridlock even worse!
http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2011-11-04/point-austin-buckle-up/
What’s in it for Travis County? The proposed road dramatically increases daily traffic on Mopac, delivers pollution to Travis County neighborhoods, and takes scarce county funds away from higher-priority transportation and community needs.
So who benefits from the new road? Hays County developers and long-distance haulers–at the expense of each and every Travis County taxpayer and Mopac driver.
We need to say NO to Hays County’s giveaway road proposal and spend our limited transportation dollars on projects that improve traffic, not make it worse. Take a minute to go here and send a message to the Travis County Commissioners Court and Austin City Council to Keep Mopac Local:
http://www.keepmopaclocal.org/take-action
PS Our friend, Bill Oakey, just submitted this information on the rate hikes that Austin Energy has in store for Austin ratepayers.
Better get organized, y’all — and we need smaller geographically representative districts — to rein in the perpetual hogs at the public trought, aka the growth lobby!
The Real News on Water Treatment Plant #4: From the Comical to the Real Estatesman
When big news stories broke in the good old days, Austin citizens relied on their one daily paper to get the details. Along came the Austin Chronicle as the new boss, the progressive alternative to challenge the old boss American-Statesman; a rivalry good for coverage of community issues. But a while back, the new boss Austin Chronicle (despite the good sensibilities of its publisher Nick Barbaro) decided to be damn nearly the same as the old boss Austin American-Statesman, and kowtow to the real estate growth lobby. Which maybe explains why some people call them the “Comical” and the “Real Estatesman”.
This issue will be coming back in May 2010 for a vote of the Austin City Council. So far, they are split 4 in favor (Leffingwell, Martinez, Cole and Shade) and 3 against (Spelman, Riley and Morrison).
Get the story the Statesman and Chronicle failed to report, watch the debate yourself and YOU decide a major decision on Austin’s critical future on water policy!
Rope a Dope the Growth Lobby!
Does Austin need to spend $850 million for a third water treatment plant in the midst of one of the worst droughts and economic downturns of the century? Read the details here courtesy of CostofGrowth.com.
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