Wasn’t intending for this to be a blog post, but RRISD blocks SSH to my host, so this is the only way I can get this picture up where I can link to it from this skyscraperpage thread – where somebody has drank the Kool-Aid that because you’re close to something, it must be walkable.
What a delightful walk this shall be. Hyde Park and Old West Austin better watch out!
As always, click to embiggen.
According to our buddy John-Michael Vincent Cortez, this area justifies rail service:
Do the Cedar trees make it urban?
but this location does not:
Clearly there’s no demand here.
But surely I must have taken a bad picture of the first location. Let’s spin around and take a couple more shots:
Vibrant!
Urban!
One last one, to the north-ish, showing development happening any day now which will turn this into an urban paradise:
Man, that screams “future TOD”, don’t it?
Oops, looks like suburban homebuilder signs. Well, still, if he says that this area justifies rail service:
Man, that screams “future TOD”, don’t it?
Urban!
Vibrant!
Do the Cedar trees make it urban?
and this does not:
Desolate low-density wasteland with no urban activity, obviously
who are we to argue?
(All Lakeline pictures taken during a serendipitous Saturday morning trip from my kid’s chess tournament up in Cedar Round Rock Park to the Super Awesome Target to buy a camp chair, in which I coincidentally (yes, coincidentally) drove right by the ‘station’. Austin pictures horked from Google streetview, which were obviously snapped during a slow period. Posted with some pain to bookface because RRISD blocks that, and IMAP/SMTP, but NOT tworter for some reason, so Round Cedar Park Rock punks should please plan on getting tworter accounts posthaste).
Posted in 2008 Light Rail, Austin, Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want, Red Line Myths, Subsidies to Suburban Sprawl, Transit in Austin, Transportation, Urban Design
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According to Capital Metro, this spot has enough demand to justify rail:
Leander “station”
But this spot does not:
24th and Guadalupe during a slow period
Posted in 2008 Light Rail, Austin, Don't Hurt Us Mr. Krusee, We'll Do Whatever You Want, Transit in Austin, Transportation, Urban Design
Tagged Austin, Capital Metro, horrible ideas, jmvc, operating subsidies, operating subsidy, pastures, pretty pictures, proving the obvious, Red Line, subsidizing suburbanites, subsidizing the suburbanites, suburban freeloaders, suburbs, urban rail