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Oct. 8th, 2007 09:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolariI really really really hate Austin traffic.
It usually takes 20 minutes to get here and 30 minutes to get "into" Austin. I left with plenty of time to get to the PO Box since there's a package waiting for me.
Traffic was much worse than expected and I hit wall to wall traffic MUCH sooner. No problem I thought to myself, I can take the next exit. Its only a mile away.
It took 25 minutes just to get to the exit., I had 5 minutes to get to the Post Office From about 6 miles away.
I didn't make it and ended up turning the trip to the PO Box into a "clean out the junk mail" trip.
AUSTIN I REALIZE YOU'RE A GREEN CITY BUT BUILD SOME DAMNED ROADS. Toll them if you have to but BUILD them. Don't throw them in the middle of nowhere where there not needed like 130 - PUT THEM DOWNTOWN!
Seattle is still INCREDIBLY green, and has loads of highways right through downtown! I drove through rush hour there without ANY problems. It should not take me 20 minutes (on a GOOD day to go 6 miles). Now I have to wait a week before I can come back. And next time I'm leaving at 2 instead of 3 becuase traffic is so damned bad.
Austin...I love you...but build some damned roads!
Maybe I wouldn't be so upset if I had AC in my pickup...
::turns around and heads towards Erin's::
It usually takes 20 minutes to get here and 30 minutes to get "into" Austin. I left with plenty of time to get to the PO Box since there's a package waiting for me.
Traffic was much worse than expected and I hit wall to wall traffic MUCH sooner. No problem I thought to myself, I can take the next exit. Its only a mile away.
It took 25 minutes just to get to the exit., I had 5 minutes to get to the Post Office From about 6 miles away.
I didn't make it and ended up turning the trip to the PO Box into a "clean out the junk mail" trip.
AUSTIN I REALIZE YOU'RE A GREEN CITY BUT BUILD SOME DAMNED ROADS. Toll them if you have to but BUILD them. Don't throw them in the middle of nowhere where there not needed like 130 - PUT THEM DOWNTOWN!
Seattle is still INCREDIBLY green, and has loads of highways right through downtown! I drove through rush hour there without ANY problems. It should not take me 20 minutes (on a GOOD day to go 6 miles). Now I have to wait a week before I can come back. And next time I'm leaving at 2 instead of 3 becuase traffic is so damned bad.
Austin...I love you...but build some damned roads!
Maybe I wouldn't be so upset if I had AC in my pickup...
::turns around and heads towards Erin's::
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Date: 2007-10-09 05:51 pm (UTC)>they will be willing to build are toll roads. Politicians will find a
>way to tax us not matter what.
I don't mind toll roads, provided they are new roads and the tolls are used to pay for the road, like the DFW Turnpike.
But, sadly, I know that's not going to happen. The city just NEEDS roads, somehow. The fact that Austin's City Council has blocked the creation of new freeways downtown has crippled the city.
Here's the plan in the 60s for how downtown could have gotten around:
http://www.texasfreeway.com/Austin/historic/freeway_planning_maps/images/austin_1962.jpg
Only one of those freeways was built, the 360 "West Loop" and Mopac. It would have torn down a lot of businesses, but in the end Mopac DID help akthough the city is still a traffic nightmare.