Transportation
BY HALEY MCLEOD & BEN THOMPSON
Road work to begin on Slaughter Lane Slaughter Lane’s existing four lanes from MoPac to Brodie Lane will be expanded to six lanes this spring, per city documents. The overview This phase of work joins a larger corridor project aimed at increasing safety for pedes- trians and bicyclists as well as increasing mobility. Bike lanes and shared use paths along the roadway will also see safety improvements.
Austin Transit Partnership has proposed a greenway running parallel to the proposed rail line along Riverside Drive.
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Project Connect legal proceedings continue After a lawsuit from community opponents seeking to halt Austin’s tax collections for Project Connect was dismissed in December, the group is now seeking to revive the case. The suit alleges the city broke promises to taxpayers with a “drastically reduced” transit plan and unclear construction timeline.
What’s happening? Attorney General Ken Paxton is also seeking to reverse a separate decision that would allow a trial over the project’s nancing to proceed. After a state appeals court rejected his push to halt those proceedings in the fall, Paxton asked the Texas Supreme Court to consider the case; its review was pending as of press time. The big picture Voters backed the project in 2020 with the approval of an inde nite tax increase, and the initial rail outline was since scaled down.
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