“Their road and traffic infrastructure is the worst in Texas.”
It is, and has been just that for the last 15-20 years-but the reason(s) are a mystery to me. In July I went with the contractor I work for to a lumber supplier to arrange shipment of some decking to a jobsite here. Neither of us had visited that supplier in about 10 years. We were amazed that not only were parts of the perpetually-under-construction IH 35 again-or still-under construction, creating a mess, but so was the access road and the street to the lumber supply, creating a mini traffic jam, and the place is in a suburban industrial park-I guess it is just part of keeping Austin weird...
For years and years, the mantra in Austin was...
“If you DON’T build it, they WON’T come.”
And so they didn’t plan. They didn’t build.
But they still came.