The Downtown Austin Alliance wants to solve the impending increase in traffic from the proposed Market Place at Sixth and Lamar by converting Fifth and Sixth streets into express tunnels that would run east/west and cross underneath Lamar.

However, area retailers and residents, championed by the Old West Austin Neighborhood Association (OWANA) and the West End Association, want to relieve the congestion by tunneling two Lamar express lanes so they would run north/south and cross underneath Fifth and Sixth streets, from Ninth to Town Lake.

This article appears in January 30 • 1998 and January 30 • 1998 (Cover).

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