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The City is Taking the Buses

2022-02-25 Rich Wright City Management, Public Transportation, Slider, The Trench, Widening I-10 6 comments

Gas is as expensive as it has been in a while, and it’s going to get dearer. Supply chain disruptions

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Lost Highway

2021-07-20 elrichiboy Public Transportation, Slider, The Trench, TxDOT, Urban Planning Leave a comment

Here’s a highway article from the Texas Observer: In late 2020, TxDOT released renderings for I-35 that showed a 20-lane

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Let Them Drive Cake

2021-03-16 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Public Transportation, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich 6 comments

From the El Paso Inc.: A lot of El Paso buses are going from stop to stop empty these days.

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A Streetcar Named Conspire

2020-06-24 elrichiboy Public Transportation, Slider, Trolley 3 comments

An alert reader tipped me to this item on June 19 Metropolitan Planning Organization agenda. How about a little operating

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Watching Our Wasteline

2020-04-10 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Public Transportation, Slider, Taxes 10 comments

The trolley’s not coming back. Right? The City will break it out for special events, like Chalk the Block. Maybe

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How America Killed Mass Transit

2020-02-27 elrichiboy Public Transportation, Slider, Trolley, Urban Planning 2 comments

From CityLab.com: One hundred years ago, the United States had a public transportation system that was the envy of the

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A Buck a Month

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The People Speak!

  • Devin +Nunes+Escaped+Cow on The City’s U-Matter Program
  • JerryK on Arrogance
  • New Commenter on Arrogance
  • Devin +Nunes+Escaped+Cow on CITY POPULATION DECLINES ANOTHER 1,000 INHABITANTS SINCE LAST YEAR
  • JerryK on CITY AUDITOR PRESSURED TO ALTER HIS REPORT ON CITY GAS CARDS!
  • John G. Dungan on CITY POPULATION DECLINES ANOTHER 1,000 INHABITANTS SINCE LAST YEAR
  • Pedro on What do you get the man who has everything?
  • AGuisino on What do you get the man who has everything?
  • John G. Dungan on CITY AUDITOR PRESSURED TO ALTER HIS REPORT ON CITY GAS CARDS!
  • John G. Dungan on Adam Smith on Politics in El Paso
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El Chuqueño Lately

  • The City’s U-Matter Program
  • The Poor Quality of Local Media
  • Arrogance
  • CITY POPULATION DECLINES ANOTHER 1,000 INHABITANTS SINCE LAST YEAR
  • “The Breaking Point”

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