Scooters, bicycles and pedestrians in Downtown Austin
For over one hundred years, traffic in Austin was engineered to accommodate cars and trucks, not bicycles or scooters. After Governor Rick Perry vetoed a bicycle safety bill in 2009, cities like Austin began to try and merge bicycle traffic into automobile traffic with 3-feet passing laws, designated bike lanes and bicycle traffic signals.
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Parking in Downtown Austin
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 just state government. That meant that people now came to downtown offices to work – again mostly during the daytime. Then beginning in the early 2000s, apartments and condominiums were built for people to live in downtown Austin. This was the beginning of the parking problem.
Waterloo to Austin 