Author Archives: waterlooatx

Let’s start off by thinking about why we need parking in downtown Austin.  At one time the only reason to have parking in downtown was for people visiting shops and stores, primarily in the daytime – and remember late hours on Thursdays? But beginning in the 1980s, tall office buildings were built serving more than justContinue reading “Parking in Downtown Austin”

I first wrote this blog in 2020. Since then the City of Austin has created about 300 miles of stripes, flexible barriers or curbed bike lanes. They have eliminated or narrowed traffic lanes to create the bicycle lanes on some of Austin’s busiest streets, including Slaughter Lane and Brodie Lane. But very few cyclists areContinue reading “Scooters, bicycles and pedestrians in Downtown Austin”