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Old Posted Jan 4, 2013, 11:06 PM
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Originally Posted by verybadgnome View Post
I always avoided the larger roads in '45. It takes awhile but I found backstreet routes to get where I needed to go. Emerald Forest isn't bad, but the section at the RR xing is terrible.

After living in '45 for awhile I realized the decade the neighborhood was developed is as important as the city it is in. Put it in other words I would probably take a pre-WWII neighborhood in another Texas city than an 80s/90s neighborhood in Austin. The car-first assumption is anathema to quality of life.
The funny thing is our vet is in Hyde Park, and I always feel like our neighborhood is more bike friendly than that area, despite the consensus being otherwise. They have a bike shop and there's a (narrow) bike lane along 51st Street, but the traffic in the area always seems so hectic, and Airport Boulevard is definitely not bike friendly. And we did have a bike shop on Manchaca near Stassney, but they moved to South Congress near Live Oak.
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