I don't know how long it has been since you have been to Austin---it has been about 10 years for me...
BUT, I hear horror stories about how bad the traffic is, and that a lot of people that I went to school with, that went to UT are wondering what happened to "their" college town.....
I haven't really had the desire to visit and find out either, because they say that the traffic from the D/FW area down 35 to Austin is like freeway traffic in Dallas during a work day,...ugh!