Highway Construction

It’s ubiquitous. Universal. Problematic, and locally? Nothing new.

Highway Construction, your tax dollars at work.

I currently live near one giant intersection, and its proposed finish date was missed by two years. Weather, price of material, available labor supply, and other factors contributed. But it took almost twice as long as proposed.

I’m not complaining.

My entire life, I-35 (Interstate Highway 35) has been under construction. Just a fact of life.

While I’ve used the example in both horoscopes and the various weblogs, and at least once in a weekly video? The legend of Austin traffic lives on. While my commute tends to be on the easiest days, it does serve as valid training for almost any condition. Traffic in Austin’s is exponentially worse — and weirder — than any place else.

Conditions are compounded by construction.

Of course.

Lesson learned, years back: parking. As an adjunct to the notion of Highway Construction, parking is always factor. If there’s not an ease of ingress and egress, as I am fond of suggesting, then there isn’t much traffic.

Got to be easy to get to. Plenty of free parking.

The notion of highway construction has an impact on my professional experiences, moving forward. There’s the forever highway construction, and then there’s the up and coming freeway project in Austin. We’ll see how that goes, as the store will be relocated, at some point, just a few miles further up the road.

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Odd, to me, when I first landed back in Austin, “Braker Lane” was a line, a demarcation, a point from which everything further north was “out of town,” to me. Again, this is a regional, parochial version, certainly centered on my own observations.

But the traffic, and the construction on the west side of San Antonio, also an impact, literally driving business away.

Highway Construction, maximum inconvenience.

As noted before, having lived in the shadow of one project, for more than a few years, and currently haunted by the constant work on the way to Austin?

While I drive to Dallas/Ft. Worth even fewer times, that route, too, is haunted with construction: all my life.

A news byte ran a few weeks back, a popular place suddenly closed in San Antonio because the construction restricted too much traffic. Declining sales.

We’ve moved, yet again?

The latest? Locations? Times?

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