Parker Welch

CTRMA 290 Extension Project An environmental study for mobility improvements to US 290 including the possible extension of 290 Toll.

People of Austin (in Travis or Williamson County - ie constituents of CTRMA)!

Please fill out this push poll that wants to justify roadway expansions by October 10, but argue for safety. Click on the map & add comments!

Stop sprawl subsidy! End freeway expansions!

wspengages.com/290Extension...

Anyone working for ICE right now should ask themselves if they are ready to stand before God and answer for what they’re doing.

I cannot know a man’s heart. But I do know that Christ was murdered, in the name of the law, by the soldiers of another Caesar. I do not believe those were idle details.

In their quest to mimic every movie villain they have finally arrived at “Roman Soldiers in Jerusalem”

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

Look at how fuzzy she is, she’s like a little kiwi fruit with legs

The voters have given Lady Bird a *resounding* mandate and I look forward to her leadership in the days ahead

youtu.be/eDKClugmQbA

Construction of CapMetro's newest Red Line station to begin next month Construction on North Burnet/Uptown Station, previously known as Broadmoor Station, is slated to begin in November.

Big transit news for North Austin: Construction on CapMetro’s newest Red Line station — North Burnet/Uptown Station — kicks off next month!
This is a major step in Project Connect’s vision for a more connected Austin. (1/2)

communityimpact.com/austin/north...

They were two-door sedans I’m sure, nothing to worry about

No one has ever quite been able to explain to me how interest rates could be so much lower in Austin than the Bay Area 🤔

I think it comes up precisely because it’s a venue that neither party to the conversation has any influence over. It absolves themselves of blame while trivializing whatever the reformers are trying to do.

Lets them win without ever defending something on the merits.

@link-houston.bsky.social

Houston folks: LINK is organizing around the issue here

linkhouston.org/red-line-sig...

Complained about this last week, but I’m doing it again. My nurse last chemo said it’s making everyone in the Med Center late to work and it’s been a disaster for the hospital systems.

“The Cuomo of the South” they’re calling him

Avant / Après sous le métro aérien près de la Place de Stalingrad dans le 19ème arrondissement de Paris. On est passé de voie générale + bande cyclable + faux trottoir finissant en cul-de-sac à piste cyclable + large trottoir continu. Notez qu'il y a plus de cyclistes au second plan qu'au premier !

U-Dems always does a great job with this, but I just think it's really cool to see student groups registering students to vote in an off-year election. This is the stuff of fascist nightmares and I love it.

Hell yeah

I picked out two (2) little table lamps that I'm gonna pick up this weekend, because I'm finally declaring independence from the cold, unloving ceiling lights that haunt my apartment

Likely Mayor Mamdani Supports Daylighting as DOT Digs In Heels - Streetsblog New York City The next mayor will have to overcome a deeply entrenched bureaucracy opposed to the common-sense policy.

Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani says he still backs universal intersection daylighting – banning parking near corners for better visibility – even as DOT digs in its heels and plans to sway the next mayor against the street safety policy. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/10/06/l...

“Most of all, war mindset requires strategic clarity. Trust is built on shared values. Moral courage springs from genuine conviction founded on sound principles. You will not find such conviction nor such principles in the latest polling. Morality is not a popularity contest.”

Indian Railways to achieve net zero targets in 2025 itself - 5 years ahead of 2030 goal - Times of India India Business News: Indian Railways is set to achieve net-zero targets by year-end, surpassing its 2030 goal through extensive electrification. Aiming for 95% electric tr

Not nearly enough is made of the incredibly impressive feat Indian Railways has made to electrify almost 100% of its 135,000km of track, while also growing renewable sourcing. Huge:

timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/ind...

They do not have the men. That is the cold, concrete fact underneath their pageantry of terror. They do not have the men to conquer us, and so we will not be conquered.

We are going to defeat these people.

Institutional Republicans won’t miss him and I think that bothers him tremendously

Something deeply funny about Trump trying to go all “the poor you will have with you always, but you will not always have me”

Very exciting to see the City of Austin trialing a quick roll out of bike lane separators using a slipform extruded curb that's "keyed" into the asphalt to keep it in place. All about be... Very exciting to see the City of Austin trialing a quick roll out of bike lane separators using a slipform extruded curb that's "keyed" into the asphalt to keep it in place. All about being quick and ...

Cool to see Austin using dedicated machines to speed up building curb-separated bike lanes!

h/t @cityjane.bsky.social

It’s so easy to assume other people must be thinking about us, and I guess it’s the same way with nations

Site development standards for MXD on the Robinson Ranch

If you’re wondering what’s permitted in MXD or TOD, take a look

The Austin of 2004 was very NIMBY about existing lots, but good Lord did we love ourselves a massive brownfield development

Here’s the maps from the 2004 PUD, no such luck!

Maybe the owners will consider a rail bypass whenever lay out the future street grid, seems like it would be a great way to entice Cap Metro into building an infill station

Actually, I should check the map in the old PUD agreement