What Would $720 Million for Transportation Buy?
City Council mulls the "Go Big" bond in preparation for the November ballot
By Nick Barbaro, Fri., Aug. 5, 2016
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Guadalupe Corridor Improvement Program
Guadalupe St. (from MLK north to 29th, and from Rio Grande St. to a block east into the UT-Austin campus)Study not yet completed. No cost estimate. Proposed funding: $60M.
This study is ongoing, with the Transportation Department having just finished the public feedback part of the process. There are currently four options in play, but all of them envision converting Nueces/San Antonio St. into a two-way corridor, and possibly moving bus lanes there. (Ironically, this is similar to a proposal making the rounds two years ago that was meant to facilitate light rail in this bottleneck.) All options would also move bicycle lanes off of Guadalupe in the problematic, narrow, bendy stretch just below 29th St.: southbound bikes would veer onto Nueces at 29th (behind Dirty's) and return to Guadalupe at 25th; northbound riders would jog right at 27th onto Hemphill Park, then come back to Guadalupe on 29th.
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