Austin Texas Community @lemmy.world reddig33 @lemmy.world 1y ago

UT wants to cover I-35 from Dean Keeton to 15th Street NB

www.kut.org UT Austin wants to cover I-35 from Dean Keeton to 15th Street

Covering the highway after the main lanes are lowered would cost the university an estimated $400 million and create more than 17 new acres of campus.

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I was kinda interested until I got to “six-lane frontage road”. Why are there still so many cars and such a big road in this plan? I thought they were going to cover it with useable green space for people.
This whole thing is such an expensive boondoggle.
yea because I want to sit in a “green space” in which its air space is polluted by car emissions AND microplastics from tire and road wear particles (TRWP) from I-35 and frontage roads

The only solution is to get rid of I-35 that runs through ATX core. Re-route traffic through 45/130.