This will be a game changer for Austin

@Jason The real game changer will be thousands of Robotaxis in the entire metro area.

@Jason Why does any city need a light rail anymore when they can just hire autonomous vehicles for a lot less?

@Jason LRT is not a good deal for taxpayers IMHO Boring tunnels + Robotaxi will provide a way better experience for taxpayers and way cheaper @robotaxi @elonmusk

@Jason Hey @Polymarket what will happen first, we put a human on Mars or Austin gets a completed light rail.

@Jason Theyve been trying to do this since i was a toddler

@Jason every time you say ‘game changer’ another engineer in austin buys a pair of cowboy boots

@Jason Both Robotaxi and this can coexist. We have to think outside of bubbles.

@Jason way back in the day I used to take the metro rail downtown to my desk at @CapitalFactory. good times. getting to the airport by rail would be great!

@Jason They were saying the same thing when I lived in Austin 25 years ago.

@Jason It doesn’t even connect to the airport, it stops at hotels a mile or so away and you have to transfer to a shuttle bus. If there was a station inside the airport and you could take it straight to downtown, out of town visitors might actually use it.

@Jason 👏🏼

@Jason Yes, but it never seems to deliver. Maybe this time….

@Jason Robotaxi baby. No point doing this

@Jason You are not from around here, ru?

@Jason Absurd. Expensive, intrusive, inefficient, obsolete technology.

@Jason Texas is one of the very few places in the US where high speed rail would be very valuable. San Antonio, Austin, Houston and Dallas connected via high speed rail would unlock tremendous productivity in the region.

@Jason No it won’t. Trains are the past. This is a big waste of time, space and money.

@Jason if you're still there in 2033 to ride it, let us know how it goes

@Jason You must be new to town

@Jason To bad Austin is so far left.

@Jason Light rail sucks!

@Jason It shouldn’t take 30 years from conception to completion.

@Jason I'm radicalized - not a single yard of light rail should be constructed in the US until the design is signed-off by a native Japanese Principal Engineer classically trained in developing & shipping modern transit systems

@Jason Jason, love the passion for light rail, but it's fighting a losing battle. Robotaxis are already here—Tesla's flexing with supervised rides in Austin, scaling unsupervised fast. Door-to-door, cheaper, no fixed routes? The rail's obsolete before it's built.

@Jason "We'd like to participate in the RFP"

@Jason No one rides public transit because of undesirable people

@Jason You may as well put in dinosaur feeding stations.

@Jason Nooo!! Bring @boringcompany tunnels instead! We all know how this plays out: outdated infrastructure + ballooning taxpayer costs + years of delays. Or… we go private: faster, safer, scalable, and actually innovative.

@Jason Same thing Dallas thought

@Jason No one will ride it. Leave California in California. Thanks

@Jason Says the man in dripping springs. Will ruin this communities. Typically nimby behavior from Jason

@Jason Robotaxi will deem this virtually pointless

@Jason Is this a scaled down version of the original plan with a much larger price tag?

@Jason You name drop Elon so much, hasn’t he taken you in a robotaxi ride ? Or have Fsd in your ?

@Jason I’ll be thrilled when it goes to the airport. I’m pissed that took that out of the initial phase.

@Jason Oh did you move here too? Neat.