Capital Metro recruiting for Project Connect advisory committee
By Cory Dinkel
Austin and Capital Metro are recruiting applicants for the Project Connect Community Advisory Committee.
AUSTIN, Texas - Austin and Capital Metro are recruiting applicants for the Project Connect Community Advisory Committee. The committee will advise on equity and anti-displacement topics related to Project Connect. Applicants are encouraged to apply through February 28.
The committee will advise the City, Capital Metro, and the Austin Transit Partnership on matters related to equity and the Project Connect High Capacity Transit program.
Capital Metro updates public on progress of Project Connect
During the meeting, there were many updates. Including, improvements at the Pleasant Valley Super Stop are now complete.
Cap Metro President/CEO
Randy Clarke is ATP s new executive director (as specified by the nascent corporation s just-approved bylaws); former Downtown Austin Alliance general counsel
Casey Burack and the city s deputy chief financial officer,
Greg Canally, are moving over to similar roles at the ATP. Austin Mayor
Steve Adler and Cap Metro board member
Eric Stratton represent the two parents on the new board. The other three community members, each appointed to bring particular areas of expertise to the ATP as it launches, include architect
Veronica Castro de Barrera (elected chair at the Jan. 20 meeting), Huston-Tillotson University President Dr.
Now Boarding the ATP: The
Austin Transit Partnership this week met for its first board meeting to elect officers, approve bylaws, and pass an interim budget. As the governing body of the agency created to build out
Project Connect, the board oversees funding, designing, and implementing the mass transit overhaul.
First the Pork Chop, Then Mobility: The
Austin Transportation Department began construction this week on improvements at the intersection of
North Lamar and
Morrow, which include removing the
pork chop median. The decades-old median has prevented both westbound Morrow traffic from driving across Lamar and northbound Lamar traffic from making left turns onto Morrow.