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Austin UTC backs targeted FY2025–26 funding boosts for sidewalks, enforcement technology and barriers
Summary
The Urban Transportation Commission on April 1 approved a FY2025–26 budget recommendation prioritizing Living Streets activations, technology/alternative enforcement to reduce bike‑lane blockages, procurement of additional street‑closure barriers, and an amended call to raise annual sidewalk and urban‑trail maintenance from $5.4 million to at least $7.5 million.
The Urban Transportation Commission on April 1 approved a FY2025–26 budget recommendation that asks the city to prioritize a short list of mobility and safety expenditures, and it adopted two unanimous amendments changing the recommendation’s maintenance and barrier language.
The recommendation — moved by Commissioner Spencer Schumacher and supported in discussion by other commissioners — contains three core asks (as circulated in the meeting packet): increase Living Streets program capacity, fund technology or alternative enforcement methods to address bike‑lane blockages, and procure additional Meridian Archer barriers (used to secure pedestrianized street events). During discussion the commission added a fourth, amended item: raise annual maintenance funding for sidewalks and urban trails from $5.4 million to at least $7.5…
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