l-35 Austin Proposed Expansion

[Need4Camaro]

Once in awhile I really do wish I could get the city of Austin and the rest of Austin metro to recoordinate their traffic signals... Some of them literally make me want to pull my greying hair out. I watch them stay green for an empty road and wait for a line of cars to approach them before turning red right infront of them causing them to hault to a screeching stop... ...half of me wonders if the CoA purposely does that in order to discourage driving and push their transit agendas.

There's so many traffic coordination issues I would fix around Austin if I had the ability to ... I literally go intersection by intersection imagining how I could improve it if I had the power.

[ScoPro]

Many Decades ago, the federal government gave Austin a $250,000 grant to synchronize its traffic signal system. They spent it on something else.
I have heard 3rd hand that the city’s policy is NOT to synchronize the signals so as to make it more annoying for automobile drivers and to push them into taking alternative means (Capital Metro & bicycles) to get around.
Take that with a grain of salt, but I know it is true when I see their proposals to cut out auto traffic lanes to make more bike & bus lanes, plus speed humps, & obstacles for vehicles.

The bike/mass transit crowd has been actively trying to discourage better traffic control for decades to push their agenda.
The MoPac debacle/farce is another example of that policy.

[Need4Camaro]

Yeah those speed bumps are ridiculous.. and they ain't small bumps either, they put friggen curbs in the middle of the road.. ..I mean I get it in subdivisions and neighborhoods but on 35 - 40 MPH arteries and some of them you can't even see until you come over a hill and BOOM... ...My Prius has a very stiff suspension (and actually handles better than both of my Camaro's) and going over those bumps in that car will forever keep me going to the chiropractor.

[ScoPro]

After my son cut his femoral artery during a house renovation project accident in north Austin 10 years ago (and damn near bled to death), he still curses those older speed bumps with a passion.
Every one the ambulance went over on that street sent him into spasms of pure agony.
God Bless the EMTs who helped save his life (and his own Boy Scout training, along with the great doctors and nurses at the Brackenridge ER).