Austin Wants Mass Transit, but the New Infrastructure Law Will Give It a Bigger Highway
Biden hoped the $1 trillion infrastructure bill would fund transformative projects, but highway spending still takes priority
I don’t use I-35 much. Mostly 1 and 183. Have yet to try the light rail or any mass transit. Do people use them?
No one uses them because it’s too crowded
“There’s nothing wrong with the service itself,” Leander City Council Member Kathryn Pantalion-Parker told KUT. “We’ve got more [transit service] than we need. It’s just not being used. If the ridership doubled, it still does not justify the money.”
Ridership not high because is too crowded 
Party identification correlated with students’ preferences. Austin, Texas, was the top choice for young Republicans who want to leave their home state after graduation. New York topped the list for young Democrats. Seattle won big with independents.
The apartments near AMZN campus are similar to living in a college dorm (keg parties included).
Austin’s housing market may be reaching a turning point in which lack of affordability starts to drive residents out of the city, according to panelists at a session titled “Cracking the Housing Affordability Code” at Austin’s South by Southwest festival.
City or MSA?
Already out of city long ago. The upcoming suburbs are Liberty Hill, Hutto, Taylor, Buda, Kyle, and San Marcos. I have rentals in Hutto and near Liberty Hill. These are new suburbs (previous exurbs).
Do we need to state the obvious? These projects would take decades to complete and cost at least 3x the original estimates.
10 yrs in Google and only a Principal in BP?
10 yr in Google and he should be retiring in Austin. Maybe he didn’t buy house in Bay Area after couple yrs of started working at Google.
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Agree. Even in Leander (suburb of Austin), Texas. Ask $400k, sold $500k.
https://www.redfin.com/TX/Leander/1208-Dillon-Lake-Bnd-78641/home/32957235
So many places are rising at 40-50% p.a. since late 2019/ early 2020.
Maybe people should stop shipping their homeless to the second most expensive city to live in… In fact, it boggles my mind that SF hasn’t simply told other cities this. There’s zero way to get homeless off the streets in a top-tier COL city.
In fact, maaaaybe, it would make more sense to ship them to Rural Iowa. or somewhere cheap and not too cold.