Austin Transit Partnership Needs Your Input as Project Connect Enters Its Trade-Offs Era

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New designs for light rail were disappointing for Austinites who feel that a project aiming to 'connect' the city fails if it doesn't reach past UT at the top, or hit the airport at the bottom.

Austinites study new proposed options for Project Connect at an Austin Transit Partnership open house March 21

So it's not surprising that the five new design ideas ATP presented on March 21 were disappointing for Austinites who feel that a project aiming to"connect" the city fails at that mission if it might not reach past UT at the top, or hit South Congress and the airport at the bottom. Awais Azhar, chair of ATP's Community Advisory Committee, said he appreciates the presentation of a more realistic project."We were really pushing [for] honest trade off conversations with community members," he said."I'm excited to see that I think that is indeed what's happened."

The city is also developing an implementation plan for equitable transit-oriented development, in part to plan for denser, more affordable housing near transit hubs. Assistant City Manager Robert Goode said that plan is expected in September, allowing time to pivot to focus on certain locations based on which of the five options is selected.

However, ATP did insert a new wrinkle in its designs by looking at elevated tracks Downtown."We did start talking about the need to look at elevated areas that hadn't been looked at, and to look at a simplified tunnel," Cannally said."If you remember that the underground got really, really super complex with multiple layers and levels.

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