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Austin/San Antonio would be the most realistic scenario. The others are just way too far apart separated by hundreds of miles of sparsely populated rural area. Dallas will reach the Oklahoma border long before it grows southward.
Austin/San Antonio would be the most realistic scenario. The others are just way too far apart separated by hundreds of miles of sparsely populated rural area. Dallas will reach the Oklahoma border long before it grows southward.
I agree I think Austin and San Antonio will eventualy grow into each other since they are only 82 miles from each other.
People forget that you also have the Waco, Temple, and Killeen areas growing on the I35 corridor. That area alone has over 600,000 people. It's also about 40 miles from the Austin area.
People forget that you also have the Waco, Temple, and Killeen areas growing on the I35 corridor. That area alone has over 600,000 people. It's also about 40 miles from the Austin area.
My mother is actually a teach out in in Killeen. Technically, the town she lives in would be in the Austin area but it's only about a 45 minute drive from the northern most towns of Austin's Metropolitan area to Killeen/Waco/Fort Hood. Actually, I'm not sure about Waco or Temple, but I know Killeen is growing like crazy because of Fort Hood. It seems possible that one day there will be a massive megalopolis that will stretch from San Antonio to Killeen or even Waco. Austin is growing very rapidly in that direction and if Waco/Killeen/Temple is growing south, I it seem like it's possible. I'm not sure if there will be one giant stretch of development form SA to DFW though. Even with Waco, that seems like quite a distance.
My mother is actually a teach out in in Killeen. Technically, the town she lives in would be in the Austin area but it's only about a 45 minute drive from the northern most towns of Austin's Metropolitan area to Killeen/Waco/Fort Hood. Actually, I'm not sure about Waco or Temple, but I know Killeen is growing like crazy because of Fort Hood. It seems possible that one day there will be a massive megalopolis that will stretch from San Antonio to Killeen or even Waco. Austin is growing very rapidly in that direction and if Waco/Killeen/Temple is growing south, I it seem like it's possible. I'm not sure if there will be one giant stretch of development form SA to DFW though. Even with Waco, that seems like quite a distance.
The area between DFW and Waco is sparse. The area between Waco and Austin is more developed. Every metro area chooses a direction to grow. DFW choose North. Austin and San Antonio also choose north, Houston choose west. Because DFW choose north, its not reaching down toward Waco.
Just because you see "stuff" from I-35 does not mean it's developed. That crap along the highway is just frontage road sprawl. In most cases there is nothing once you get 500 feet from the highway, so IMO, it's just as rural between those Texas cities as any place else, it just feels more built up because of all the frontage road development.
Southern California is a megalopolis without question at this point and Northern California is rapidly on its way to one as well.
The distances and area size for those two are alot smaller than the Texas Triangle, but the Southern CA megalopolis has approx the same number of people as the state of Texas. Northern CA megalopolis has approx 12 million people in an area maybe a quarter of the size of the Texas Triangle.
At its current growth rate, the Texas Triangle will conceviably become a megalopolis one day, but it won't be the next one after BosWash.
Just because you see "stuff" from I-35 does not mean it's developed. That crap along the highway is just frontage road sprawl. In most cases there is nothing once you get 500 feet from the highway, so IMO, it's just as rural between those Texas cities as any place else, it just feels more built up because of all the frontage road development.
Actually, the area I was talking about is quite a distance from I-35. Killeen is growing because of Fort Hood.
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