RE: Seasoned With Sult N Papper 03/06/19> Can’t wait to see what this is going to cost us …
They have had a bunch of tree huggers on city council for years and their idea to relief the traffic congestion around the city was to narrow the lanes on the surface streets and add bicycle lanes. That was just one issue, when I-35 was built they didn't take enough property to ever widen the road through the main portion of the town so everything bottlenecks down right around the UT Campus area and downtown. It is a guzbucking mess for sure and has been that way for quite some time, the recent explosion in growth has just multiplied it by a factor of 5X or more if I had to make an honest guess at it.
Just an update, I had five drawings come in today so I am going to be tied up for a few nights on getting back to your request, sorry about that.
Howdy sir sultnpapper! Wow you are so right, that place sounds like a guzzbucking nightmare! I don't even think they have a freeway circle built around the city do they? That might help some. So everything I've heard about Austin being liberal must be correct.
Oh that's fine about that post topic, Shoot, it's great news to have five more drawings come in!
No freeway encircling the town and that is a major problem. There is a toll road out east of town so you can bypass the gridlock of I-35 if you are passing by Austin on the way to San Antonio or Waco but you pay out the ass to use it. But I was an hour and forty five minutes on Tuesday coming into town (Austin) from the south at 11:00 AM to go 17 miles.
oh my gosh! So it was every bit as bad as you thought it would be wasn't it? I suppose it's too late to fix that mess and do it right?
You get used to it, there was a wreck that day but most days there is either a wreck or a truck broken down from sitting in the backup of traffic and over heating. It isn't do late to fix it but it won't be easy or inexpensive and the longer they wait the more it will end up costing.
Howdy sir sultnpapper! I hear you. I bet they wait until it's impossible to get around and then it's going to be the biggest, most expensive hassle they've ever done around there, costing at least ten times what it would have originally.