3 YEAR project to build flyover ramps at I-35 and 183 that we're apparently proposed more than 20 Years ago is now approved and funded. Prepare for collosal northside commute traffic to come.
and LaCrosseMosesHallRAB04 said:
Mopac is goIng under slaughter so that will take forever as well. Traffic will be awful there as well.
Proposed 20 years ago... funded now. That's one of the reasons I moved away. I'm sure every major city has delays in projects such as this, but delays in developing infrastructure seems to be standard practice in Austin. Those flyovers need to be built, as does the construction on Mopac/Slaughter, but they are long overdue. The I-35 project will be even worse once they figure out how to expand it through downtown.MouthBQ98 said:
3 YEAR project to build flyover ramps at I-35 and 183 that we're apparently proposed more than 20 Years ago is now approved and funded. Prepare for collosal northside commute traffic to come.
Bill Bunch and his crew do whatever they can to delay/stall/stop any road related improvementsQuote:
delays in developing infrastructure seems to bestandard practiceintentional in Austin
That's a better way to say it. I can't remember where, but I heard once that the Austin city planners decided in the 60's and 70's that if they didn't build the infrastructure up, nobody would move there. They were obviously wrong, and that's one of the reasons infrastructure is at least 20 years behind population growth.KT 90 said:Bill Bunch and his crew do whatever they can to delay/stall/stop and road related improvements east of IH35. Apparently if you don't improve the roads, people won't move here. Yeah, that strategy worked well.Quote:
delays in developing infrastructure seems to bestandard practiceintentional in Austin
Yep...couple this with incentivizing the hell out of new corporations to move to town for the last 20 years, and you get the current Austin quagmire. Lunatics run the asylum here. Has been that way here since before I was born. This is reason number 1 why I don't own a home in the Austin city limits. The city of Austin cannot manage their way out of a paper bag.KT 90 said:Bill Bunch and his crew do whatever they can to delay/stall/stop any road related improvements east of IH35. Apparently if you don't improve the roads, people won't move here. Yeah, that strategy worked well.Quote:
delays in developing infrastructure seems to bestandard practiceintentional in Austin
Who is this "we" and how did they not know that they had proposed 20 years ago.MouthBQ98 said:
we're apparently proposed more than 20 Years ago
BwdAg said:
Any guesses on what will be the plan for 35 downtown? That will make the mopac upgrade look like a cake walk.