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Old Posted Mar 16, 2019, 1:50 PM
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Originally Posted by drummer View Post
Seeing some of the older plans for expressways tearing through the downtown area, we really did dodge a bullet! That said, in cancelling these plans, they didn't really come up with other alternative solutions, which is why we're facing the growing pains we have today. That said, I'm glad to not have Cesar Chavez be a giant expressway, same with Riverside, etc.
And so many others--3rd St going east (g'bye east Austin), 15th across, MoPac on Lamar instead of where it is--catastrophe. Our transpiration solutions won't come in the way of four wheeled individual autos--we've got to think about how to most effectively move people, not autos.
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