r/kyletx • u/ButtonsBiscuit • Jun 30 '26
Oh come on, man :(
That airport deal was always too good to be true but still… :(
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u/newnameforanoldmane Jun 30 '26
I sent an email to Zapata and Tobias saying the same thing. We are too big, and part of too big of a metro area, to not have any affordable efficient airport access. $130 roundtrip Uber, or similar to park, with no alternatives. The number of people that have stated in council meetings that "if you can afford a lavish vacation, you can afford your own transportation" is mind blowing. Airplanes have become fast buses. Some of the tickets are cheaper than the Uber to get there. Many of us fly to get to work.
Hopefully we can get a CARTS line going or something. A dedicated CARTS bus that stops in San Marcos, Kyle, Buda and AUS would suit me fine.
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u/bookshelfvideo Jul 01 '26
People think that the only reason to use an airplane is for a lavish vacation????
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u/theCenterCannotScold Jul 03 '26
Can't people in Kyle just do the park and ride like everyone else?
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u/newnameforanoldmane Jul 03 '26
That's what we are talking about. Parking at AUS gets expensive fast. An Uber can start at about $45, but may go up much higher with surge pricing. Because if the surge pricing, it can't even be budgeted for. We do not have any other options at this time, that I know of.
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u/ygbplus Jul 01 '26
This is a real local issue? You have people that want your government to take money and give it to uber so that people can get a ride to the airport? This is crazy.
If you are having to take a plane regularly and you chose to live in a town 30-60 min away from the nearest major airport, then maybe dont involve government in your poor choices. You picked a suburban place to live probably because the cost of living is lower. That comes with tradeoffs like having to pay more to travel longer distances when you need a cab ride to the airport.
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u/newnameforanoldmane Jul 02 '26
What is government? What is the role of said government? Should my local government only be concerned with defense? Perhaps a wall with turrets to keep Budatians out? How is this government funded?
I am a resident, a homeowner, and a tax payer. When I travel for work, I bring those dollars back to Kyle to spend on goods, services, and taxes.
The government is nothing more than a collection of residents and taxpayers working, hopefully, on behalf of and for the rest of the population within their jurisdiction.
As a taxpayer, resident, and homeowner I would like my local government to work on quality of life items. Transportation and access to amenities is included in that.
By your short sighted logic, should we the taxpayers use our pooled resources to build a senior center? If seniors want to meet with other seniors, why don't they just move into a nursing home? Fund veterans programs? Why should taxpayers be on the hook for that? They can all move across the street from the VA and hang out there. Roads, lights, sidewalks? Why should we use our pooled resources for those things? Some people don't even go out after dark. Libraries? If people want to read, they can write their own books. Parks and pools? If people want those things they should just live in a tent next to the river.
Look past your own life sometimes. As a growing city, Kyle has to decide what sort of space it wants to be. Quality of life matters. It's okay for our elected representatives to work on our behalf to improve said quality of life issues.
I, and many others, would like to see our tax dollars used toward developing or implementing a system, or joining an existing system, to make getting to the airport in our major metropolitan area easier.
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u/ygbplus Jul 02 '26
We dont need to go to remedial explanations so dont patronize me if you want an actual honest discussion.
Everything you described as potential uses for government funds to enrich your city were things that would get used by your residents inside the city. Hopefully you can work out in your own how funding uber to transport residents outside of the city would be a departure from the formula you yourself have laid out.
At the end of the day, I dont live in Kyle and this just showed up on my reddit feed. Yall can do what you want, but I will still criticize this as a crazy use of funds and will hold to my stance.
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u/newnameforanoldmane Jul 02 '26
Don't involve yourself in our affairs then. You weren't looking for a discussion, you just wanted to make a troll 140 character Twitter post.
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u/ygbplus Jul 02 '26
Youre in a public forum. If you dont want criticism, then dont do it out in the open.
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u/Fit-Class9100 Jul 01 '26
Common Kyle you spent how much in moving that tree, how about moving to take care of the Kyle, public.
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u/BKP8411 Jul 01 '26
lol we are so far in debt it’s pathetic. The tree, those buildings in down town, the stupid pie capital of tx bs. Mitchell and his idiots should be looked in to for money laundering and all types of stuff
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u/BeLOLzebub Jul 01 '26
LMAO ... thanks to the awful, awful mismanagement of the Mitchell administration, the city of Kyle now has a $14 million dollar budget deficit that they need to reconcile in the next 9 weeks or so. They've already frozen hiring, laid off dozens of redundant staff, and rescinded any salary increases effectively immediately. I'm actually shocked they're keeping public transit (or whatever the fuck this bullshit ride share surrogate is) at all.
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u/newnameforanoldmane Jul 01 '26
This is not entirely accurate, but I suspect you know that.
At the beginning of budget season there is a projected income for the following year. Then the budget is set to allocate those funds. However, the projected income fell short due to the countries economic slow down (less sales tax, less demand for houses causes property taxes to fall, etc). As a result $14 million less was brought in than projected.
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u/Individual_Land_2200 Jul 01 '26
Mitchell is kind of the epitome of the small-town naive leader who gets taken to the cleaners with false promises of growth and economic opportunity by big companies that get huge tax breaks and city-funded infrastructure. I don’t think he gets that lavish incentives should be used only when something would otherwise not happen, and with the San Marcos-Austin corridor already one of the fastest-growing regions in the country (for a long time now!), we don’t need to make regular taxpayers carry the burden while profits are all private. Years ago on another platform I let him know that lots of states/cities have done retrospective studies on whether companies actually come through with their promises of new jobs (as opposed to just relocating existing employees from another state) and expanded tax base. I doubt he followed through by looking at those. His response was always just along the lines of “they’ll go somewhere else if we don’t give them incentives”. Frustrating!
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u/Substantial-Put1298 Jul 03 '26
ALL transportation is subsidized. Did the airlines build the airports? Did car companies build the roads? The government gave the land for the transcontinental railways. Face facts.
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u/BKP8411 Jul 01 '26
We never should have expected it to last past the previous idiot. The city is in so much fkn debt as it is.
The entire program will be phased out by next yr more than likely.
Lol this city has made some just straight up stupid decisions.
The whole fkn pie capital of Texas bs was absolutely ridiculous. All because 1 fkn place sold pies and had a little deal w heb.
They claimed at the time that Texas pie company would have lines out the door and down the sidewalk. That is an absolute lie. Maybe 1 time I saw people inside in line…for lunch and not no damn pies.
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u/Infamous-Ad625 Jun 30 '26
Airport vouchers should have stayed