{"id":939,"date":"2004-10-19T10:58:36","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T15:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2004\/10\/19\/out-of-town-on-a-rail-or-a-bus-or\/"},"modified":"2004-10-19T10:58:36","modified_gmt":"2004-10-19T15:58:36","slug":"out-of-town-on-a-rail-or-a-bus-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/out-of-town-on-a-rail-or-a-bus-or\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of town on a rail or a bus or…"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those of us that have managed to decide the larger contest<\/a> facing us this November 2nd, I thought I’d turn our attention to what’s shaping up to be a big local issue, Capital Metro’s All Systems Go<\/a> rail plan.<\/p>\n

The Austin Chronicle<\/a> has posted some of their take on it<\/a> already. I’m guessing that the next couple of Chronicles before the election will have more information. The chief opponent of the current plan is Mike Dahmus<\/a>. He’s got several posts on his blog over the past couple of months about why he thinks this is not the plan that should be approved. There’s some great discussion there and I think he presents a compelling case.<\/p>\n

Those of you who have been in town a few years will remember that, despite some vocal<\/a> support<\/a>, a light rail plan was narrowly defeated in November of 2000<\/a>. If you’ve made up your mind already, early voting<\/a> started this week. Get out there and do your thing.<\/p>\n

In searching for a few links for this post, I also found some people who advocate a Monorail<\/a> for Austin. The idea may have merit, but all I can think of is the classic Simpsons episode<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those of us that have managed to decide the larger contest facing us this November 2nd, I thought I’d turn our attention to what’s shaping up to be a big local issue, Capital Metro’s All Systems Go rail plan. The Austin Chronicle has posted some of their take on it already. I’m guessing that […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-f9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}