Thought they did that every March in Texas. At least that's when I see all sorts of people heading to Texas cities on horseback.
Posted on 01/09/2013 3:04:26 PM PST by Jonx6
Austin might soon ditch a three-decade-old policy of requiring downtown buildings and tenant businesses to have a minimum number of parking spaces tied either to square footage or the number of condos and apartments in a building.
Supporters of the move say the minimum requirement has caused a parking surplus downtown, encouraging people to use their cars rather than bikes, buses and rail. Take away that requirement, they say, and eventually garage parking will become a more scarce (and expensive) resource, encouraging people to use alternative transportation.
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We do try to disavow the existence of Austin at every opportunity but they just won’t go away. I think they should just wall all the whole town and all the liberals within. It’s not like we need them for anything useful after all.
I can just imagine someone riding a bike to work in the middle of July. What bizarro world do these liberal politicians live in?
Sheesh.
Smart Growth Plan - right out of the U.N.’s Agenda 21.
How does it feel to have the entire fabric of American society transformed as per the nutjobs at the U.N who came up with Agenda 21.
Also directly related to this: Takingliberty.us
>>The article mentions rail. Does Austin have rail?
If they don’t, the “city planner” Agenda 21 types will use the parking parking problems about to be created as justification for rail in a few years. See how this works?
If it ever comes to that, there'll probably be a massive trail of Austin liberals on a mass exodus to either New Mexico or Arkansas. The remainder will get deported. That will help clear the stench down on the Colorado.
30 dollars nets me a tank of gas that allows me to drive about 500 miles or so.
I live about 10 miles from Downtown Austin, so do the math. :)
Unless I travel downtown every day - the car is cheaper.
Exactly. Corral the People in central hubs and make the spaces in between effectively no-man lands. I doubt that it's coincidence that it supports the "divide and conquer" philosophy of the Left.
One reason we moved to a small town 35 miles away from Austin. Plus the taxes are much lower.
This’ll help downtown Austin - NOT!
This silly “we hate cars” experiment fails everywhere it’s tried, yet the insane “planners” and other liberal statists keep trying it. Bottom line - it it isn’t convenient, people won’t do it. Cars are convenient, busses and bicycles less so, and rail even less than that.
I’m all for loosening the amount of required parking spaces. The governments created all these strip malls that we all hate so much.
Well I’ll be. I had been trying to get a job in Austin for a long time and had no idea. My plans have recently changed and I’m not looking there anymore.
I rode the light rail when I lived in Denver. It was great. I hear people say they don’t have time to read. People who take public transportation have plenty of time for reading.
Did Austin sign up for agenda 21? Any town will die without traffic, dead.
Well, I’m sorry. But look on the bright side. You live in Texas. I used to think Texas was pretty crappy (I grew up in Oklahoma). After driving all the way through the state from the Red River to Harlingen this fall, I’m jealous of people who get to live there. Oklahoma looks like a third world country in comparison. So you have to deal with a few goofy liberals. There are a lot of amazing people doing amazing things down there.
Thought they did that every March in Texas. At least that's when I see all sorts of people heading to Texas cities on horseback.
This reminds me of the 1970s and Austin’s solution to too much traffic: Don’t build more roads.No, it's not just don't build roads, they install "traffic calming devices" in the roads already here that are "used too much."
I believe there is a central buisness district(CBD) that already doesn’t require parking for the 6th st. and warehouse district bars.
Auslandia
I thinke the Rainey St. area got sucked into the CBD too, recently...
I think the Rainey St. area got sucked into the CBD too, recently...
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