Mike Solana

the whole of downtown is basically 2km square, my furthest regular trips are ~7km to gyms. food's good, shopping sucks but in-person retail is hardly of much value rn. don't own a car and haven't taken an uber since april

also having come from sf the amount of construction cranes and half-finished buildings that dot the skyline is extremely heartening

this is good to here! when i was last in austin traffic was already a problem. any plans to mitigate? public transit etc.?

traffic is worse, living and working downtown is necessary imo. commuting from suburbs insane. howeeever we got light rail on the ballot this year, fingers crossedhttps://mobile.twitter.com/alicemazzy/status/1263291853677494272 …

who are the people voting against this?

suburbanites. we have kind of the opposite problem of sf in terms of city limits, where there you can't coordinate anything because the "boroughs" are independent, here the city encompasses way way more than the city proper, and all these people have different interests

namely they live in a fantasy world where more roads can meet demand and they're squeamish about property tax. that said I'm cautiously optimistic, the last two mobility bonds passed fine, all of council's on board, and the design is much better than the failed 2014 attempt