Imagine if Southwest Airlines ran our transit system instead of Cap Metro. To put it another way, imagine that in 1980 we passed a law that all PCs would be made by one tax subsidized government company. Of course there are other pieces to the puzzle. Our roads represent another tragedy of the commons for which technological solutions are rapidly coming into grasp. If you only talk to liberals and conservatives all you ever hear is light rail or more roads.
Libertarians have other ideas.
Sincerely, Elayne Hunt Libertarian Candidate for Travis County Constable, Place 2 Go Into the Light Dear Austin, Embrace the insight of Mike Clark-Madison and his light rail observations. Austin's booming success is treated far too casually, not to mention hypocritically. The growing pains you are now experiencing and will continue to experience are a rare and fantastic opportunity. If you fail light rail again, you've sealed your fate to sucking a tailpipe and damned your city's 21st-century global position. By world standards, Austin is very young.