Posted Jun 15, 2009, 6:46 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Austin <------------> Birmingham?
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AUSTIN Metro Update Thread
http://www.statesman.com/news/conten.../0615wear.html
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GETTING THERE: BEN WEAR
At least for now, Reagan Boulevard heading nowhere
New 17-mile road in Williamson County runs through empty hills, though developers say they have plans for area.
Monday, June 15, 2009
Is Ronald Reagan Boulevard the new Road to Nowhere?
Readers with a little worn tread on their tires will remember Southwest Parkway as the original Austin-area road to take that title (long before, by the way, an Alaska bridge got a similar honorific). A road district formed by developers in the late 1980s built the seven-mile, six-lane road from MoPac Boulevard to Texas 71 about two miles southeast of the Village of Bee Cave.
Except that back then the village was basically the Trading Post store, some bees and, apparently, a cave. And RM 620, although Lakeway existed then, was still a rural road. Southwest Parkway really did head to nothing much, the classic suburban sprawl road, built not to serve existing need but rather to facilitate future development.
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