Stone Oak traffic (Austin, Leander, Mart: construction, price, shopping centers)

[firstclassflyer]

We moved from La Costa (South Carlsbad, CA) and some of my friends had to commute down to La Jolla..an hour for about 12 miles as well.
Me, I don't do daily commutes...never did. I work from home (consultant) or fly to a client site.
Anything over 20-25 minutes or so, would qualify as brutal for me.

[JNA]

Thanks for all the responses! My wife and I are really looking forward to the change! I actually saw a bit of the traffic on Stone Oak Pkwy last time I was there. It was backed up a bit, but seemed nothing like it is out here in S. CA.

After seeing some of the comments in other posts, I just thought I'd get more feedback from the locals. When I lived in the Inland Empire, it was always at least 1-1/2 hrs each way (and I wasn't driving to anywhere nearly as nice as our home and community in Stone Oak), so we are anxiously looking forward to the move.

[firstclassflyer]

No problem. Hope your move goes smoothly.

[SpoiledWife]

The traffic is bad compared to some other parts of town but it is a breeze compared to Cali traffic.

[jerryg]

Stone Oak is a breeze compared to traffic in the Baltimore/DC area, too - it could take me 20 minutes to get from my house to I695 (and vice versa) during rush, and that was all of 3 miles. From there, it was another 30-45 minutes to get to Johns Hopkins (and downtown, in general).

That said - 281 does get stupid. Yes, it's mostly just congested, but MAN it gets backed up from the lights at Encino Rio and Stone Oak north of 1604. Not that Stone Oak Pkwy is much better (although today was a -breeze-...took me longer to get out of the parking lot and onto Wurzbach and then I10 than it did to get from there to my daughter's daycare on Stone Oak.)

I suspect tomorrow will be a real test.

[imaterry78259]

Just wait to the day after Thanksgiving

[martinez4]

Originally Posted by JNA

Thanks for all the responses! My wife and I are really looking forward to the change! I actually saw a bit of the traffic on Stone Oak Pkwy last time I was there. It was backed up a bit, but seemed nothing like it is out here in S. CA.

After seeing some of the comments in other posts, I just thought I'd get more feedback from the locals. When I lived in the Inland Empire, it was always at least 1-1/2 hrs each way (and I wasn't driving to anywhere nearly as nice as our home and community in Stone Oak), so we are anxiously looking forward to the move.

No problem on the info.....happy to help You will find it is much easier to get around here than Cali. Most every place you want to go can be reached by alternate routes as opposed to just having the freeway as the main mode of travel

[Chakapu]

I grew up in LA so I know the traffic there well. Yes, by comparison, San Antonio is not there yet, but it's getting there. When I moved here in 2001, my first thought was that it was like LA in the 1970s, and that it was rapidly becoming more like LA. And that wasn't a Good Thing.

Yeah, traffic isn't _as_ brutal. But it's getting worse and can ONLY get worse, as long as new suburban sprawl continues and the city doesn't see fit to establish more efficient public transport and can't keep up with road development.

I left Los Angeles for a reason.

[traficdogn]

The rush hour doesn't even come close to LA.

But weekend traffic is irritating. I honestly believe families just drive around 281, 1604, and stone oak parkway to kill time and site see big-box architecture.

[els565]

Originally Posted by traficdogn

The rush hour doesn't even come close to LA.

But weekend traffic is irritating. I honestly believe families just drive around 281, 1604, and stone oak parkway to kill time and site see big-box architecture.

LOL!!!!! I got a good laugh out of that! It seems true, though, doesn't it? Where is everyone going on the weekend?