Texas Capitol Complex & North Austin Complex Projects Update Thread

[Maximusx1]

It is nigh on impossible to drive across downtown right now. They have the lights timed so that you can only make it 1-2 blocks in any jump. They keep clogging the ingress and egress to downtown and taking away lanes on bridges. Then they go and propose another forever barricade like this. Right on par, brilliant.

I understand the Austin transportation apparatus has always believed in 'if we don't build it they won't come' and purposefully designed to get people out of their cars. It's been that way for 50 years and you come to expect it. But then they shifted to wanting to attract people to work AND live downtown. These types of plazas look cool for the downtown lifestyle, but in practicality they make it way more difficult for those of us who live downtown to actually move around our neighborhood.

They need to tear down the old 9th street post office, build more bridges across the lake (and Barton Creek), time the lights better on Cesar Chavez, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 11th, Guadalupe, Lavaca, Trinity and San Jacinto, and build more direct connector ramps onto and off of Mopac and I-35. Instead they take away lanes on Barton Springs, Congress, mis-time the lights and propose pretty barricades like this. Classic Austin government.