From Light Rail to a Downtown Tunnel: The Parts of Project Connect

Diving into the plan

"...billion. This doesn't include the cost of the Downtown Tunnel but does include enhanced MetroRapid bus connections at each..."

Sept. 25, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Walking Waller Creek Is a Tour Through Wildlife, Wild Flora, and Wild History

Take this self-guided tour from UT's Office of Sustainability, and learn how much wildness this waterway is home to

"...What little you know about Waller Creek has probably dribbled into your consciousness as something..."

July 31, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

To Expand the Convention Center or Not?

Despite unanimous support from City Council, voters will decide the answer

"...connectivity within the Palm District, especially along Second Street, Waller Creek, and Palm Park";..."

July 19, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

Austin at Large: Tear It Down and Start Again

Convention Center reboot gives us a second crack at change

"...first expansion was approved by voters (along with the Waller Creek flood-control tunnel) back in 1998, Downtown had started..."

May 31, 2019 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

The Past, Present, and Future of Waller and Shoal Creeks

Finally doing right by Austin's waterways

"...It's a Friday evening, the penultimate night of the Waller Creek Conservancy's annual Creek Show public art event, and..."

Nov. 30, 2018 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Downtown Puzzle: Waller Creek’s Chain of Parks

What’s happened already with the ambitious park and trail project, and what might happen next

"...The Waller Creek park and trail project stretches from 15th Street..."

Sept. 22, 2017 News Feature by Robyn Ross

Pease Park Before the Flood

Preventing natural disaster when a 140-year-old statute stands in the way

"...to put a stop to catastrophic flooding along Shoal Creek in Downtown Austin...."

April 7, 2017 News Feature by Caleb Pritchard

Council Preview: Promised Land Use

Austin Oaks, Plaza Saltillo loom large at Thursday meeting

"...embattled last year. Along with the Grove at Shoal Creek, the PUD controversy bears considerable credit for the defeat..."

Feb. 17, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Bright Light Social Hour & Israel Nash

Nash to host TBLSH cameo at Antone’s on Wednesday?

"...Padgett, who’s done projections for us and at the Waller Creek tunnel. He’s really on another future level. He..."

Dec. 6, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Zimmerman: Fire Marc Ott

D6 council member: "It's time we replace" city manager

"...infrastructure projects (Central Library, Water Treatment Plant No. 4, Waller Creek Tunnel), which Zimmerman says "undermine the public trust..."

June 22, 2016 News Post by Michael King

Council: It's All on Camera

City Council gets ready to dive back into the breach

"...• Additional contingency funding for the Waller Creek Tunnel Project, which should complete the tunnel –..."

May 20, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Waller Creek Conservancy "Creek Show" 2015

"...The 2015 edition of Creek Show, the Waller Creek Conservancy's annual exhibition of site-specific..."

Nov. 16, 2015 Photo Gallery

Waller Creek Comes to Life

Conservancy seeks radical makeover east of Downtown

"...cold came on with the setting sun, sinking into Waller Creek and seeping into coats, hats, and the fingertips..."

Nov. 13, 2015 News Feature by Robyn Ross

Illuminating Waller Creek

"...Light-based artworks will illuminate Waller Creek for a second year in "Creek Show," which..."

Nov. 13, 2015 News Feature by Robyn Ross

Paying for Waller Creek

"...The flood-control tunnel, and the surface improvements such as parks and trails,..."

Nov. 13, 2015 News Feature by Robyn Ross

Protect and Preserve

How can we keep Austin's cultural heritage authentic?

"...Sheryl Cole's pet project, which resulted in a flood-mitigating tunnel and redevelopment plans for Waller Creek, which runs behind..."

July 24, 2015 News Feature by Cindy Widner

Council Preview

Zimmerman off to East Texas to "investigate" city biomass contract

"...19, 73, 74, 104) to revise the incorrectly designed Waller Creek Tunnel Inlet Facil­ity (obscuring a "Capitol view corridor"..."

June 19, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

Headlines

"...tasty bits, including more money for WTP4 and the Waller Creek Tunnel, concrete pouring, granny flats, living wages, and..."

June 19, 2015 News Feature

Can MACC and 70 Rainey Coexist?

Will the development of the Rainey Street District squeeze the MACC?

"...city, while helping shore up budget shortfalls for the Waller Creek Tunnel project on adjacent property. And years after..."

April 24, 2015 News Feature by Tony Cantú

Headlines

"...released a statement saying that the city and the Waller Creek Tunnel engineers had worked out a "cost neutral"..."

June 27, 2014 News Feature

Mike Martinez: 'Leadership of Austin's Tomorrow'

"...Corridor (the Highland route) vs. Lamar/Guadalupe, or bridge vs. tunnel (over Lady Bird Lake)?..."

May 30, 2014 News Feature

More Poor Planning

"...Construction was still halted this week on the Waller Creek Tunnel intake facility in Waterloo Park, after the..."

May 23, 2014 News Feature by Nick Barbaro

Project Connect: Central Corridor Options

Last public workshop considers the future of high-capacity transit

"...rail or bus rapid transit; 2) a bridge, short tunnel, or long tunnel to cross Lady Bird Lake; 3)..."

April 18, 2014 News Feature by Mac McCann

Reconnect Austin: Part One

The Great Depression

"...built across the sunken lanes, enclosing them in a tunnel. In planning parlance it's called a "cut and cap"..."

Jan. 17, 2014 News Feature by Robyn Ross

Klyde Warren Park: 'Think About It Bigger'

As Austin considers Reconnect Austin, a Dallas project gives a taste of what could come

"...I-35 flanked by the major projects planned nearby. The Waller Creek District, where a floodwater-diverting tunnel will allow 28..."

Jan. 17, 2014 News Feature by Robyn Ross

Waller Creek Tunnel Tour

September 3, 2013. 19 photos.

"...Media reps toured the city's Waller Creek tunnel project at Waterloo Park on Aug. 30,..."

Sept. 3, 2013 Photo Gallery

Going With the Flow

The next life of Waller Creek

"...To explore Waller Creek and environs is to live intensively in the..."

Jan. 11, 2013 News Feature by Ari Phillips

'Design Waller Creek: A Competition'

Winning design for Waller Creek Conservancy's contest creates civic spaces amid greenery

"...All four visions for transforming the neglected creek along Downtown's eastern edge offered compelling images of a..."

Oct. 26, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Headlines

"...› The future look of Waller Creek has come down to four options. City staff..."

Sept. 21, 2012 News Feature

The Battle for Barton Springs: A Brief Timeline

Twenty years of progress

"...Burgeoning highway construction and unregulated development in the Barton Creek watershed and the recharge zones of the Edwards Aquifer..."

Aug. 3, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

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