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Thoughts on Austin
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From: Houston / University of Texas, Austin
Originally Posted by NexGen
Yeah, Houston does stay moving, and sometimes in Austin it will come to a halt for about 3 min. and what is with the damn stop lights in this town???
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From: Texas
610 West loop between I-10 and 59. Has traffic as bad as anywhere. I go surface streets to avoid it...That whole area (I-10, 59, 610, etc... all in that area sucks).
Austin's issue is it developed faster than its freeways did. When I used to go there on business you had to drive surface streets to get anywhere if you wanted to go. As I remember going North to South wasn't a gigantic issue but going East to West was impossible. Just a case of explosive growth coupled with poor urban planning.
Austin's issue is it developed faster than its freeways did. When I used to go there on business you had to drive surface streets to get anywhere if you wanted to go. As I remember going North to South wasn't a gigantic issue but going East to West was impossible. Just a case of explosive growth coupled with poor urban planning.
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From: Texas
Originally Posted by chupr0kabra
Traffic in Houston is bad, but it's almost always moving. I had some run-ins with Austin traffic (granted, this was 6.5 years ago) and people there just STOP. WTF IS THAT?!?! You don't STOP on a freeway! The only time I've ever come to a complete stop for more than a minute on Houston's freeways is if there is construction or an accident.
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Austin's traffic jams are not commensurate with the population being relatively small. San Antonio is a city that was well planned out though as far as traffic. 
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From: central TX
Originally Posted by J-Rod
Austin's issue is it developed faster than its freeways did. When I used to go there on business you had to drive surface streets to get anywhere if you wanted to go. As I remember going North to South wasn't a gigantic issue but going East to West was impossible. Just a case of explosive growth coupled with poor urban planning.
Originally Posted by The Darkside
...they are terrible, most go under the speed limit to begin with, and like mentioned earlier, they are all in their own world... it is unbelieveable
**** man, welcome to a day in the life of this **** town called College Station!
although, at least we do get a slight reprieve a few times a year when the dumbasses....errr...Aggies leave town for holidays & such.... (not saying ALL aggies are dumbasses, but an overwhelming percentage are....)
but it gets REALLY bad here when the Aggies' parents come into town & don't have a ****** clue about anything.....it's times like that i wish i had a monster truck to just run over everyone.....
Originally Posted by NexGen
i drive .2 miles to work everyday so I am not going to gripe about commuting
Originally Posted by BigBronco
...Only place that was worse was LA and DC...
. The D.C area seems worse on the holidays than any other place that Ive been. Except for Manilla.I'm looking into going to school at UT when I get finished at Kingwood, anything going on over there...I hear that it's like the live music capitol of the world and lots of stuff goes on, but I dont know...never been there.
Originally Posted by A_W_O_L
...anything going on over there...I hear that it's like the live music capitol of the world and lots of stuff goes on, but I dont know...never been there.
oh yeah, 6th street is the place to be.....
they often times block off several blocks of streets and have live bands all over the place, and you can walk around in the street drinking (as long as it's not in a glass container) and just have a great time