The full text of Chris Riley’s amendments to the Project Connect resolution:
WHEREAS, the Project Connect team has identified several sub-corridors which are appropriate for high-capacity transit investment; NOW THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED:
The City Manager is directed to work with Project Connect to identify future funding needs and potential sources to prioritize and continue critical Central Corridor project definition and development activities in the remaining identified sub-corridors, including the Lamar, Mueller, and East Austin sub-corridors, and report back to Council by August 1, 2014.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED:
The City Manager is directed to work with Project Connect and CMTA to continue cultivating a relationship with our regional Federal Transit Administration officials to cooperatively prepare for any future high-capacity transit investments in the Lamar sub-corridor.
I appreciate Council Member Riley’s motion, but it’s entirely symbolic. Wake me up when someone commits to putting rail on Lamar before rail to Highland, regardless if East Riverside is first. Or even if someone bothers to address the argument that making it politically impossible to put rail on our best transit corridor before mid-century is a mistake.
Niran got to it before I could (comments were closed the first time). This is the kind of resolution the UTC used to pass all the time which basically is a statement of feelings, nothing more.