Austinist: Broken Spoke Getting New Neighbors

smcdow

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:34:59 -0600

When you're walking back after drinking and dancing at the 'Spoke, it won't matter if there's sidewalks or not. You're gonna be walking in the ditches no matter what. Unless, that is, you're crawling in the ditches.

mdahmus

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:52:22 -0600

Place sidewalk blame appropriately, please. Lamar south of Barton Springs or so is the responsibility of our friends at TXDOT, who view sidewalks as a marginally better outcome than the Ebola Virus these days. To their credit, as recently as five years ago, they'd have chosen the virus. South Lamar is going to be impossible to retrofit with good sidewalks. We tried for years - even using city money - it's just not gonna happen.

gryph

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:36:08 -0600

Bets on how long the apartments will go before complaining about the Spoke? Two months? Two weeks?

kenneth1

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:47:06 -0600

A Blues Brothers reference is almost de rigeur when writing about the Broken Spoke. Thanks for mentioning lack of pedestrian-friendly side streets, but you neglected to mention that S. Lamar itself is extremely pedestrian-hostile in that area. In several places you actually walk in a bar ditch, or along a muddy foot path blazed by peds from the 1970s. I guess our fair city is too busy cashing all those property-tax checks from condo projects to bother with trivial things like sidewalks.

Benj

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:37:53 -0600

Ha. This is good, but they should still be punished for sparing Mean-Eyed Cat.

Grape Ape

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:15:34 -0600

What is this, development that's actually trying to keep local businesses intact!? Bravo!