From
http://www.mystatesman.com/news/tran...dfMihyYqQ0KeJ/
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But as the turn of the 21st century approached, and development picked up in that formally rural eastern corridor, the cities along the way, backed by their Williamson and Travis county colleagues, pushed for a Texas 130 route farther to the east. Building a big highway where the old Missouri-Kansas-Texas trains used to run (from 1904 to 1976) would be too disruptive to the people beginning to live nearby, they said, especially in Pflugerville, where the corridor cuts right through town.
Texas Department of Transportation officials disagreed, saying going farther east would lower traffic usage too much, especially if they had to sell bonds for a tollway. But in the end, TxDOT bowed to local wishes, and Texas 130 broke ground in 2003 where you see it today on that eastern alternative route. And traffic, at least for a few years, in fact was disappointingly light. Texas 130 has not made a discernible dent in I-35 traffic.
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Nimbys ruined the better SH-130 alignnment, and can't agree on what to put on the abandoned MoKan (Katy) corridor. Typical Austin SNAFU.
I suggest building the Orange line to Pflugerville and Georgetown and the Green Line to Elgin and Manor should be the next projects for Austin exurban commuters.
As for the urban commuters, I suggest to continue building more BRT lines. Although a main transit hub transfer center should be built first because urban Austin is going to need a lot of BRT lines.
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