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atomheartbevo

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  1. 1 hour ago, Chuckie Finster said:

    Robert Hyde should be a universally known name this morning, and yet I fear that this is barely a blip on the radar.

    His name seems to be picking up steam.  Tracking a US ambassador for what seems to be nefarious purposes tends to put you on peoples radars.

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    35 minutes ago, South Austin said:

    With that, other cities still produce pretty kick-ass mass transit.

    A lot of other cities didn't have a choice - older cities with established cores were fairly locked in before automobiles were a thing, so they were never going to be able to handle everybody having a car.  The only solution was to design a mass-transit system on a large-enough scale, and that had to work from the beginning, and that had to carry everybody  (not just the poors and students).

    We are building from a much smaller-scale - we started with a system that ran limited routes that catered to poors/UT students/people that didn't want a car, in a state where car ownership is a part of the fabric of the state (and said state doesn't have a decent mass-transit system between cities, because it keeps getting shot down by special-interest groups).

    Edit: And Austin has grown slower than the spread of cars - Austin was still that fairly sleep little college town, even has car ownership, highways, etc. took off.  With that said, Austin ignored traffic congestion, even back in the 80s.

  3. 12 minutes ago, Steamboat1874 said:

    Do you realize how much explosive power it would take to even make a dent in that dam.?

    It would take way more than one man could carry unless it was a nuke.

    What about an entire high school football team that spent the evening at a Taco Bell?

  4. 2 minutes ago, Lobo said:

    It'll be a challenge to be heard over the campaign lies told about this thing in November.  

    Do you think it actually makes it on the ballot in November with solid information?

    I know that's what they are aiming for, but it doesn't feel like there's that much time to get it out there in the public conscious before we are overwhelmed with federal election bullshit sucking up all of the airtime.

  5. 12 minutes ago, Mr. Blutarsky said:

    Not to burst the bubble, but that cut off is Tom Miller Dam. That is flood projections for is Lake Austin came to town, not Travis. If Mansfield ever goes, Austin is no more. 

    Closest I could find.  A lot of that would still flow south.

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    "“This is the moment and the opportunity to actually change our future to change our future in a big generational, once in a generation kind of way,” said Austin Mayor Steve Adler. “If we don’t do it, then quite frankly I don’t want to hear people complaining about congestion over the next twenty years, because now is the time if we are serious about doing something, that we can do something.” 

    In Adler we Trust, amirite?

    I will say, this is a helluva a lot more comprehensive than I was expecting.  And talking about elevated (but no gondolas?)

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    Edited by atomheartbevo

    I know there are other transit/transportation threads, but deserves its own, since it's such a massive project.  Cap Metro says Fed grants can get them 40% of the money.

    https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/austins-unveils-multi-billion-dollar-transit-plan-with-possible-light-rail-expansion-downtown-subway/

    "After months of speculation and rumors, Austin is getting a glimpse Tuesday at a massive transportation plan which is aiming to fund a new generation of transit for a growing city. 

    At a joint work session of Austin City Council and Capital Metro Board of directors, Tuesday afternoon discussed an update to Project Connect, a plan to create high-capacity transit in the Austin area. For the first time publically, they explained which transit options are on the table and how they might pay for it. 

    The transit plans these groups are looking at range from $3.2-$10.2 billion dollars, depending on the features they opt for. CapMetro explained they believe they can pay for 40% of this amount through federal grants."

    "The city is looking at other options for how to foot the bill for the remaining 60%. City staff explained to KXAN that all their main options for doing so include putting this transit funding plan to a public vote in November. 

    One option for a public vote to pay for this plan could be a transportation bond election, as the city has attempted before. Another option the city is now looking at would be a tax rate election."

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  8. It honestly wouldn't surprise me if this was some "urban explorer" type looking to get some footage for their YouTube channel - got to be in the top 5 of homegrown content, behind unboxing videos, video game streaming, reaction videos, prank videos.

    Or Lou was drinking again.

  9. 1 minute ago, Lobo said:

    Problem with FOIA is it takes longer than it does to resolve your stolen CC issues.  In this day and age, we need something faster as conmen move from place to place too quickly.  

    And honestly, given how much theft there is (I've had both ID and credit card theft), it makes more sense for people to be informed in the here and now so they can start monitoring, instead of down the road when they may not be able to figure it out.  I get thatfinancial institutions are informed and are silently monitoring the affected CC cards, but it's still annoying.

    Yeah, these businesses get hurt if word gets out, but almost all of them, once the dust settles, are back to business within a few weeks.  Our neighborhood Shell station (our only neighborhood gas station), if they got hit with skimmers, everybody would be back in a few days after the skimmers were gone, or they'd be back the next day and paying cash.  No different than if there was some kind of deadly fight in the parking lot that spooked people (like say a couple of manservants went at it because one got the last bottle of a certain kind of wine (our station sells a lot of wine) and the other didn't want to go back to their employer empty-handed).

    But seriously, security cameras are cheap as shit these days.   And an employee should be checking the pumps every hour or so as it is, even if there wasn't the problem of CC skimmers.

    Shit, Amazon sells a 4-pack of fake security cameras with blinking red LEDs for $20.  That alone would give plenty of skimmers a pause.

    Unless, like you said, one of the employees is in on it.

  10. 54 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

    When are ya'll going? That's my HEB and there's been a dozen times in the past year when there was not a single parking spot in the entire lot...from 2222 to Tomlinson's at the far end of the shopping center.  The only HEB with worse parking is the North Lamar Central market. 

    My HEB as well.  I see the antique mall is going away, maybe they can build a parking garage there, because that HEB is always packed when we are there.  It's a part of why we do curbside (small part, but a part nonetheless).

  11. 1 hour ago, tokamak said:

    In theory, I'm thankful that there are still people in Houston that shop at Randall's and Kroger, because monopolies are bad. Even benevolent, Texas-centric monopolies.

    Confused, but thankful. My hat's off to you, idiots. You're really taking one for the team.

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  12. 33 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    How can you trust what you see on NextDoor or FB?  I have read a few people blame the local gas station because they have theft on their card. How in the world do you know that the gas station had a skimmer based on that limited information.

    No kidding.  I see a lot of insane shit on Nextdoor, and don't get me started on Facebook.  Nextdoor is full of far too busybodies losing their shit because a minority walked through their neighborhood, or they think that just because a park has a shit-ton of "KEEP YOUR DOG ON A LEASH" signs, that it actually means it's a fucking dog park, and that somehow, in the loosely constructed realities that exist in their heads, dogs have the same rights as human children.

    Dipshit dog owners on Nextdoor like to try and put your shit on blast when you kick their dog in the head, when their 40-pound dog runs up out of nowhere at your 30-pound daughter, and they claim the dog was just friendly and wanting to play, and you point out the fucking leash sign that's 15 feet away from us and in plain view, and somebody on Nextdoor that you know tells you they are trying to put your shit on blast, and so you have to hop on there, respond that you have video from another person, as well multiple witnesses, and that you're going to talk to the police now that the dog owner identified themselves, and all of the sudden that dipshit dog owner claims it was just a misunderstanding or something.

    Whoops, sorry for the rant.

    Also, some people on Nextdoor do not like certain gas stations because they attract the wrong elements (high school kids, etc.), so yeah, I wouldn't trust them at all.

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    Edited by atomheartbevo

    22 minutes ago, immortal13 said:

    The bottom line is that police reports are public fucking record.....supposed to be anyway.

    This.  Should be no problem with FOIA requests to local and state records that are not national security concerns.

    But it is Texas, and our state does a lot of stupid shit, and fights a lot of records requests that they shouldn't, all the while wasting taxpayer money on court costs.

    Let's hope that the City of Austin doesn't get it in their heads to stop releasing crime reports, because they don't want to harm certain touristy areas.

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