Amazing opportunity alert! Toyota and Net Impact have teamed up to bring the Next Generation Mobility Challenge right here to Austin, Texas. During the challenge, students compete in interdisciplinary teams to dream up products, services, and technologies related to mobility that will promote equity and opportunity.
Have you always dreamed of owning an electric car? Well now might be the time to buy. Smart Charge America and Nissan have teamed up to offer up to $20,500 is discounts and incentives on both the Nissan LEAF and home charging stations. That means
Capital Metro is lowering its fares. Starting January 8th, the premium fare level (which was previously levied on MetroRapid and MetroFlyer riders) will be removed. That means from January on, Cap Metro will only have two fare levels – local and commuter. The decision to
What are the biggest issues facing Austin today? The most common answers to that question are transportation and affordability. Well, Prop 1 affects both of them. Which means that this is the big one. This is the issue of this local election season. So now’s
For Capital Metro, it’s got to be all about frequency. Austin’s public transit agency just released a draft of its Connections 2025 plan, which lays out a path for Cap Metro’s future. Every five years Cap Metro comes out with a new plan to guide changes
When we talk about making transportation improvements in Austin, often the conversation revolves around funding. Whether it’s the city’s budget or the $720 million mobility bond proposal, we’re usually talking about money. But there is another way to help fix Austin’s traffic problems – city
What’s going on with that transportation bond everyone was talking about back in June? Now that City Council is returning from its summer recess, things are heating up again, which means that now is a time for an update. If you remember, at the end
What should we do about I-35? It’s a question local leaders have long been asking, even floating around the idea of paying for improvements through a bond election in November. Last week, State Senator Kirk Watson released a few big ideas of his own, which he says
Interested in taking a deeper dive into the city’s transportation system? The Austin Transportation Department released its 2015 Annual Report last week, providing an overview of everything the department did in the past year. Highlights from the 2015 report include: 28 miles of new bike lanes installed
In other transportation news, Mayor Steve Adler has been busy lately, advocating for Austin in the US Department of Transportation’s Smart City Challenge. Austin is currently one of seven finalists. The winner will receive $50 million to leverage technology in building out a better transportation
Sponsored Post – from Smart Charge Residential Inc. Smart Charge Residential, Inc., (SCR) has consolidated its electrical equipment supply chain with CleanCo Energie, Inc. Both companies have entered into an exclusive channel partnership as of March 1st to distribute Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE), advanced
Hate Austin traffic? Now’s your chance to do something about it. Mayor Steve Adler has named 2016 the Year of Mobility, and City Council is serious about doing something to fix Austin’s transportation woes. But first, they want your input. Last week, the City of