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Originally Posted by We vs us
Cool cool, a transit stop.
A single rail station -- while awesome -- won't ameliorate the traffic. The largest cities, with much more extensive transit systems than Austin is building, still need grids that connect, and strategies for dealing with car traffic.
I'm sorry to be such a pessimist but I don't think we've quite reckoned with what a boom in Rainey -- as opposed to quarantine in Rainey -- is going to look like, or how dense we're actually building (Which is good! it's great! but we have to get faster at solving these evolving challenges because the market is going to overwhelm us).
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Not just "a transit stop". a huge, multi-billion dollar investment in a transit system. So that many/most of those who live in Rainey can take transit to their work, and so that many/most of those who visit Rainey have a feasible option to take transit to there. And those that choose to drive instead can deal with traffic.
Plus it's not only the transit, but the bridge will provide a bike/pedestrian connection south.
You can't fix traffic. If you make it way easier to drive there, then that many more people will just drive.