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Originally Posted by bluedogok
The "don't build it and they won't come" is a philosophy that some subscribe to, which obviously fails. But TXDOT does not subscribe to that theory, they always wait until the area roads are overloaded then decide to build. Kind of the "we will build it if they come" philosophy. I think some in the City of Austin are the ones who have tried the "don't build" philosophy without commitment from anyone else.
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"don't build it and they won't come" relies on you being the one who can stop it from getting built, obviously, and that's never been the case here. Austin has actually built more freeway miles in the last 10-20 years than most similarly-sized metropolitan areas - much of which wasn't even opposed by the actual city of Austin.
Like I said, the only freeways which really didn't get built around here were the ones which would have bulldozed the central city, like these:
1962 central view - note freeways destroying Old West Austin, most of central Austin around Guadalupe, and of course Town Lake, Camp Mabry, etc.
Everything else, including most of the oft-maligned Outer Loop, is either already built or getting built now. So, once again,
we still don't know if "don't build it and they won't come" will work, because we never got to try it.
This kind of thing is just propaganda from people who resent SOS, folks. They want the western part of our area to look like the appalling cancerous sprawl of north and northwestern San Antonio.
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