At tomorrow's meeting, Austin City Council will consider awarding a $1,000,000 contract to PB Americas, Inc./Parsons Brinckerhoff Americas, Inc. to develop a series of short-, mid- and long-range context sensitive solutions that might be carried out by the City, TXDOT or someone else to provide improved mobility along the corridor within the existing footprint of the facility, including options for transit and/or managed lanes, and for improved connectivity across the I-35 corridor from US 290 to William Cannon Drive. Funding for the project was included in Proposition 1, which voters approved last November. more ›

A 4.5 mile stretch of the elevated highway will be demolished and replaced with a boulevard and park. A new highway, constructed on a parallel route, will be built in a ditch so that normal streets can pass over it. Unfortunately, this progressive plan isn't happening in Austin. Instead, Oklahoma City, our forward thinking neighbor to the north, is the one choosing to put urban fabric above highway bypassability. more ›