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Langmore, who gave a presentation on gentrification that featured his own photographs of the historically Hispanic neighborhoods of East Austin, had turned Krusee on to New Urbanism years before, when they went on a field trip with Duany to the Kentlands development in Maryland.

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There was great irony, too: The New Urbanism conference was hosted by, among others, John Langmore and Mike Krusee, the two men most responsible for passing the bill that permitted the Trans-Texas Corridor.

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After many talks on the subject, Langmore had convinced the conservative Krusee to embrace trains, and the two were active in bringing commuter rail to Austin.

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I asked Langmore about his Cintra job in the summer of 2004, and he did not apologize for his own personal privatization.

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“Krusee was into it, the dense development as an alternative to sprawl,” Langmore told me.

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All of the concepts that Weaver and Krusee assembled had to be submitted and shepherded through markup, and for that task they brought in John Langmore, who had recently left his job as an executive at the construction-equipment manufacturer Caterpillar.

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Langmore had an interesting take on the public uproar.

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Langmore is a Democrat, as it happens, and a devotee of the planner Andrés Duany and New Urbanism.

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John Langmore, the New Urbanist who found himself shepherding the legislation that allowed the Trans-Texas Corridor to flower, has become active in promoting commuter rail in Austin.

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Private interests had collaborated with Krusee and Langmore and Weaver to craft HB 3588 to their liking, and now the Stalls were guiding the bill that could put the brakes on privatization.

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