If we’re really going this far on the reimagined I-35, we might as well go all the way.
My old friend and colleague Sinclair Black, a grand duke in the aristocracy of Austin architecture, is the founding father of Reconnect Austin, the longest-running community initiative to reimagine I-35 as it runs through Central Austin. It's because of Reconnect's influence and knowledge base that the Texas Department of Transportation felt any need at all to dramatically modify its plans for what it calls the Capital Express Central project – rebuilding I-35 from U.S.
Reconnect, whose main mover is Sinclair's daughter Heyden Black Walker, also a design professional, has been patient with TxDOT. Sinclair himself has never been patient with anything that distracts or dilutes his visions for Austin, most of which have proved to be prescient. So he's revved up the Reconnect engine to make one more direct demand of TxDOT and the city of Austin to get behind the initiative in its totality – what he describes as"civilizing I-35.
TxDOT has consistently rejected this idea, for reasons both obvious and obscure; their preferred plan places the boulevard on the west side of the highway, some of which land they'll have to purchase. Sinclair's not going to stop pushing back on this until TxDOT caves or God takes him away, one or the other.A problem with Reconnect's vision is that it only addresses the very center of the CapExCentral – north of the river, from Airport Boulevard south to Festival Beach.
But segmentation is how TxDOT got us into a position where no, we really can't just remove I-35 entirely and build a boulevard instead , because the rest of the highway – the CapExNorth and CapExSouth, from the U.S. 290s out to the Texas 45s – is already being built to specifications that the Central is going to have to accommodate. It sucks, but complete highway removal may require going back quite a few steps in what's already been a 30-year endeavor.
TxDOT says no can do, because it needs exit ramps there to get people to Mueller and Highland to the north and St. David's Medical Center to the south. But it's already completely redesigned the highway twice. How is this actually a problem it can't solve? And why does leaving a neighborhood stranded on the wrong side of a very big ditch seem like a preferable alternative?
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