Austin Transit Blog

this is all valid you both are valid but i can assure you that there are upper/middle class children of employees at natural resource companies/lockheed that aspire to go to texas tech because my high school had lots of them. or at least that existed fifteen years ago

Austin helped buy cheap apartments with the intent of keeping prices low. Instead, rents went up. At each of the apartment buildings, rent went up as much as 25%. While tenants received notice of the increase from the previous owner, it came weeks before the city and its partner finalized the purc...

the city of austin partnered with private equity to “preserve affordable housing”, and it has gone about as well as every other single situation that involves private equity www.kut.org/austin/2023-...

incredible

leave it as big ditch and it’s easier for me to fill it in once i save enough money to buy a personal bulldozer

Could Austinites weigh in on an I-35 ‘cap and stitch’ bond election? But with an estimated $730 million in funding sources needing to be identified by December 2024, one Austin City Council member is eyeing a possible bond election proposal to help supplement any fe…

open to being convinced, i really don’t know if the money and political capital is worth it. so many other things that can improve peoples lives www.kxan.com/traffic/traf...

yeah definitely possible

for some reason i find it a little reassuring that american food culture hasn’t been completely homogenized ya know? still lots of people doing different things in different places

i am seeking this food…i think they call it “frijoles”??

if anyone ever tries to tell you the mexican food in nyc isn’t dire i would direct them to this post where a person describes refried beans as an exotic dish that they need recs for www.reddit.com/r/FoodNYC/co...

i have wondered about this after hearing so many stories of police just not responding to things in austin

obviously i wish this were public and cheaper but it says something about the state of car ownership that it will be probably be well used. even the people that already own cars (everyone in florida) are miserable

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i remember being at dinner with my cousins in like…summer 2018 i think? maybe summer 2019. and openly expressing disdain for elon was met with mostly surprise and bewilderment. he was doing such “cool” things!!! space! electric cars!

people that have hated elon for years, decades even, will never get the credit they deserve. if this is you know that you have a special place in my heart

agree, there’s not enough sugar in the world to coat it

spending $735 million to cap a highway that shouldn’t be there seems like a big a waste of money. if the city council doesn’t have the juice to stop the project then fuck it focus on something else, build some housing

my review of salt lake city’s light rail is unfortunately it doesn’t seem to go anywhere and no one seems to ride it. think it was basically just for commuters and covid killed it

you know what i ate at one for the first time in salt lake city in april and my review is that it was quite salty, even for someone like me with a salty palate. enjoyed the show and ambience though, lots of kids clearly on homecoming or prom dates or something

after dinner probably going to sit in traffic with people leaving the dumbest building on earth

google maps screenshot of the area around the apple donut campus

having dinner next to the dumbest building on earth

lol winding in and out of the parking village makes me think of the jj pickle stop on the 803.

lol yes that sounds right. it’s such a fucking disaster

i’ve only seen a few of the light rail stops but i have seen some very empty trains and one stop in the highway median lol

if you ever hear someone blame expensive real estate on “developers” or “density” again we should set up a gofundme for that person to take a field trip to this endless sea of single family homes that are all forty years old and completely unaffordable to anyone not a director level tech worker

spending the week in san jose ca at the in-laws and folks you won’t believe this but their land use is even more dogshit than central texas. in what i’m sure is unrelated news the unremarkable 4br 2.5ba on a small lot down the block is for sale for $1.9 mil

guy i know with a substack had to turn off comments because larouchies kept putting wacky stuff in there and i was shocked there was still enough of them around to be that annoying

suppose if i want to fuck over elon, a dream i’ve had for years now, i should start by posting here more

TxDOT said in 2002 that ~200k cars and trucks crossed I-35 at Lady Bird Lake each day. The department estimated that volume would grow by 65 percent by 2020.

In 2022, per TxDOT's own data, ~200k cars and trucks crossed I-35 at Lady Bird Lake each day.