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Texas is the land of highways, freeways, toll roads and lots of cars and trucks. In the central part of town we've run out of real estate for freeway expansion, but people are moving to the central Texas area in large numbers.
BTW - some call Austin "Cowboy Portland".
On Wednesday morning, members of the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority board of directors gushed over a proposal to install an aerial tramway that would ferry riders from the University of Texas campus through downtown and all the way to Slaughter Lane in South Austin.
Indeed, what Ficklin is proposing is largely unprecedented. There are currently two active aerial tramway systems in the United States: one in New York City and one in Portland, Oregon. Both are short lines servicing only two stations and span geographical barriers that inhibit other modes.
http://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2016/09/turning-toll-roads-ctrma-eyes-gondolas/?utm_source=Master+List&utm_campaign=33dcf5ca5e-WWWT_0516_pm&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5f67ac3218-33dcf5ca5e-190177569
BTW - some call Austin "Cowboy Portland".
On Wednesday morning, members of the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority board of directors gushed over a proposal to install an aerial tramway that would ferry riders from the University of Texas campus through downtown and all the way to Slaughter Lane in South Austin.
Indeed, what Ficklin is proposing is largely unprecedented. There are currently two active aerial tramway systems in the United States: one in New York City and one in Portland, Oregon. Both are short lines servicing only two stations and span geographical barriers that inhibit other modes.
http://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2016/09/turning-toll-roads-ctrma-eyes-gondolas/?utm_source=Master+List&utm_campaign=33dcf5ca5e-WWWT_0516_pm&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5f67ac3218-33dcf5ca5e-190177569