Semi trucks on the Mopac -what happened??? (Austin, West: 2015, how much)

[hound 109]

Originally Posted by A-Tex

They've always been allowed on "the" one.

Spit out my tea & had to clean the screen. Good one, A Tex.

[A-Tex]

Originally Posted by FalconheadWest

"The" usually means a transplant to the area.

Pretty sure that was my point.

[ATX Wahine]

Who freakin' cares what the OP referred to the damn freeway as? He/she asked a legit question.

I mean ... come ON! I don't have enough fingers to count the number of threads hijacked by petty sniping here. It's embarrassing. Grow up, people. If you want to give off an image of Austin cool then actually BE cool.

[hound 109]

The OP received lots of good info and opinions. Some of us were having fun....not sniping.

Which reminds me.....when chicken frying wild snipe, do you prefer cream or brown gravy? I've seen some snipe scurrying behind a Prius and a Volvo wagon when traveling down the 620 & also on the 2222 when traveling down the Tumbleweed Hill...but that was before the Santa Ana winds died down last winter.

& imo, Snipe tastes much better than the rattlers we pick up at the annual roundup they put on in the Steiner and the Avery Ranches - when they come out of hibernation each May.

[FalconheadWest]

Originally Posted by A-Tex

Pretty sure that was my point.

Not everyone understands that, so I was just making sure people weren't confused. CA people don't know they're saying it wrong, most of the time.

[ATX Wahine]

On the contrary, there's actually a very practical reason why so many generations of Southern Californians preface freeways with "the". It's been discussed many times here.

https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/t...reeway-numbers

Should Texans be required to give up awesome nomenclature like "y'all" or "fixin' to" when they leave the Lone Star State? I think it would suck if they did. Regional slang is cool. To me it's a reminder of what an enormous and colorful nation we live in. I have a friend from New Jersey who doesn't say "turn up the volume" ... she says "louder it". Although I've lived here eight years, I still say "hella". These little things make us all unique. I don't understand the need to point out, mock, or snark at people's language in an effort to mark them as transplants. It just seems like a provincial and petty habit to me.

[oceanpoetry]

Originally Posted by 10scoachrick

I feel your pain! During the 'downturn', the major truck traffic up here was quarry trucking...could be avoided somewhat by taking certain routes...BUT, for the last three years, stone and hopper trucks are all over nearly every street that's wide enough for them to travel! I swear, some of the trucks are coming back with the same stone/dirt/rock that 'another' truck just hauled away!!!

Of course, they aren't responsible for cracked windshields resulting from gravel flying off their uncovered trucks...says so right on the tailgate sticker.


OP...As far as I know, "you" can call it "The Mo' "; but don't get caught calling it "THE MoPac" or "THE One"...or "THE Loop One" for that matter.

Thanks for the correction, on MoPac there are a freaking lot of big semi-trucks!!! For some reason, I thought they were restricted on MoPac. With all of the construction in Austin and all of the through traffic and trucking between Mexico and Canada, it is a real mess. Thanks for letting me vent.

[A-Tex]

Originally Posted by Nor Cal Wahine

Who freakin' cares what the OP referred to the damn freeway as? He/she asked a legit question.

I mean ... come ON! I don't have enough fingers to count the number of threads hijacked by petty sniping here. It's embarrassing. Grow up, people. If you want to give off an image of Austin cool then actually BE cool.

Originally Posted by Nor Cal Wahine

On the contrary, there's actually a very practical reason why so many generations of Southern Californians preface freeways with "the". It's been discussed many times here.

https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/t...reeway-numbers

Should Texans be required to give up awesome nomenclature like "y'all" or "fixin' to" when they leave the Lone Star State? I think it would suck if they did. Regional slang is cool. To me it's a reminder of what an enormous and colorful nation we live in. I have a friend from New Jersey who doesn't say "turn up the volume" ... she says "louder it". Although I've lived here eight years, I still say "hella". These little things make us all unique. I don't understand the need to point out, mock, or snark at people's language in an effort to mark them as transplants. It just seems like a provincial and petty habit to me.

Wow. All y'all need to simmer down.

1. It isn't snarking or sniping or hijacking or whatever. Some of us were enjoying a long running CD joke.

2. If you don't see the humorous irony in someone stating that something didn't used to be a certain way in Austin but uses an obvious colloquialism from another region to do so, then I don't know what to tell you.

3. The question was answered right away. By multiple people.

4. Very often Texans are expected to give up their colloquialisms when they leave the state, or do business and have other dealings elsewhere. Indeed y'alls, fixin' tos and the like are are looked down upon in other places as being simple, uneducated or completely misunderstood. Just tell a Californian they can take the feeder and see what happens.

[Trainwreck20]

This post from another location seems to fit what I recall regarding trucks and MoPac:

When the MoPac Expressway was first being planned in the 60's, the good people of West Austin didn't want a bunch of noisy 18-wheelers going by their houses all day, and they threatened to block it in city hall. The City Council proposed, as a compromise, to pass an ordinance banning 18-wheelers from MoPac. They did, in fact, pass the 18-Wheeler ban before construction was even started on MoPac.

Eventually, The first segment of Mopac opened. (Seems like it was just from Barton Springs or 1st street, to 2222. I don't think it even went to 183, originally. Anyway, as soon as it opened, the federal Department of Transportation announced that, since federal funds were used to build MoPac, that they couldn't ban trucks. It turns out the City Council at the time, knew all along that their ordinance would not stand, but it shut up the people living alongside MoPac long enough to get it built. You'll notice that there are now concrete sound barriers alongside most of those old neighborhoods, that were built after the fact.

Btw, the first section of MoPac was from 2222 south down to 2244 and was completed in 74 or 75? It wasn't until the 80s that they really started expanding it further north/south.

[Novacek]

Originally Posted by RunninJT

They are banned behind my neighborhood. The truckers then take the ban signs at the bridges, rip them out and drive across. When we complain, the city replaces the signs and does nothing. When locals video tape the truckers ripping out the signs they are told to stop recording videos. Dont even get me stated on how badly the city screwed up our streets in Windsor Hills.

Welcome to Austin.

Which neighborhood? What ban signs? You mean like "No Through Trucks" signs? Official ones set in concrete?