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Originally Posted by wwmiv
Austin is not a terrible place for you to live because you have different values and priorities than me.
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OK, so Austin is a terrible place for you to live? Then why live here? Stay in San Antonio after you graduate, or find another city that meets your needs. And what exactly are your values and priorities? Driving really fast through the city center to get to the suburbs? I actually wish you would explain these values and priorities here.
I think it's undeniable that cutting freeways through the city center (Riverside, Cesar Chavez, whatever) would irreparably damage the urban fabric of Austin. Agreed with Mike here: the freeways are going to benefit anyone but suburban road warriors. I literally cannot imagine that the residents of Austin would ever go for such a thing. It'll never happen - your time is past. So maybe, since you can't do that, you should more seriously consider transit?
As an aside, part of of the problem, in my opinion, is that TDOT insists that freeways are these monstrous things with access roads. I would have no problem making the rest of the 360 interchanges limited access, without stoplights. At least, I would, pending an environmental study. But TDOT doesn't usually want to do that, at least not to my understanding. They want to build atrocious elevated highways with access roads. That would be disgusting, in my opinion.
I don't think you are so much on the opposite side of the issues from most of us here - plenty of us here would support improvement of interchanges and current roads. But as far as building new freeway in the urban core, that's where we differ.
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