Commute from South Austin to North Austin (New Braunfels, Anderson Mill: credit, live)

[williasp]

I currently live with my wife in South Austin near Circle C (I take the Slaughter or Davis Lane entrance to MoPac to go north). After working in New Braunfels for 5 years (with a 37 min commute with NO traffic that doesn't really bother me) I am considering a job near McNeil and 183 (Anderson Mill area). I am an extreme morning person ( wake up anywhere between 4:15AM and 5:00 AM) . I assume that traffic before 6 AM on Northbound MoPac from Slaughter to 183 North as well as 183 North is fairly light. However, getting back from 183 to Slaughter Lane will probably be different. Does anyone know how long this takes? At 5PM, 4PM, 4:30PM ?

We love where we live and would like to stay here in the deep South of Austin!

Thanks,

Spencer

[Driftwood1]

My wife did it for a while (183@mopac to CC) and it took from 45min to 60 min or more (rain or even ONE little fender bender and its ALOT more) leaving at 5pm. The shame of it is that fully 90% of that time is spent between 183 and the Mall on Mopac (Pronounced MorePark) Once again, a credit to really poor planning and infrastructure. There are no options going this way. 360 does not fuction as a loop road because it is full of stoplights, and backroads, while they are more enjoyable, dont save you any time at all . Worse still, there appears to be no solution to the mopac south bottleneck. She finally took a better job on Congress and can now consistently get to CC in 30 min at the most, 20 min some days..
More and more companies are moving south and we wonder if Austin eventually will become a N/S town. When we got here in 1999 we would commonly here native texans say "theres no reason for me to go south of the river" If the traffic and housing trends keep up I suspect we will be hearing the reverse alot more...

Hope this helps,
Cheers

[williasp]

thanks driftwood