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Austin has only weeks to decide where to put parks over I-35

Austin must decide within just a few weeks whether to commit hundreds of millions of dollars to installing support structures on Interstate 35, or give up the chance to build parks over the highway. City Council has until May 31…

Roads • By Nathan Bernier, KUT • Apr 10, 2025

UT hopes to play leading role in Austin’s evolving development scene

At Wednesday’s Urban Land Institute Austin breakfast discussion, interim University of Texas President Jim Davis offered a candid assessment of the university’s evolving role in Austin’s booming development scene. Once regarded as one of the city’s largest builders and employers,…

Austin • By Chad Swiatecki • Mar 27, 2025

Travis County sets aggressive goal to eliminate traffic fatalities by 2050

One of the policy areas that the county has most influence over is roadway safety. Past city limits, the Travis County Commissioners Court is responsible – along with the Texas Department of Transportation, the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization and…

Roads • By Lina Fisher • Mar 18, 2025

Urban Transportation Commission criticizes I-35 frontage road plan

The Urban Transportation Commission on March 4 unanimously passed a resolution strenuously recommending against the Texas Department of Transportation’s plan to widen Interstate 35 frontage roads downtown. The resolution specifically addressed the Central Austin project, which covers an 8-mile section of…

Transportation • By Miles Wall • Mar 12, 2025

Under threat of a federal freeze, city staff says they’re staying the course on infrastructure grants

City staff made the case against panic to City Council’s Mobility Committee during an update on the state of Austin’s pending federal infrastructure grants, which some believe may be threatened by President Donald Trump’s executive orders to freeze all federal…

Transportation • By Miles Wall • Feb 24, 2025

City looks to expand parking and trails at Pennybacker Bridge

During its last meeting of the year, City Council made a move that its members hope will improve access to the Pennybacker Bridge Overlook for years to come. Council members voted unanimously to move forward with eminent domain proceedings to…

Planning • By Elizabeth Pagano • Dec 19, 2024

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TxDOT wants to keep approving its own federal environmental reviews

The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is asking the federal government to let the state continue to approve its own environmental reviews – a delegated authority intended to fast-track highway projects. The public has until Monday night to weigh in on the arrangement…

Roads • By Nathan Bernier, KUT • Dec 9, 2024

I-35 caps plan reconsidered as cost estimates soar by 61%

Austin’s transformational plan to cover parts of Interstate 35 with parks and public spaces, intended to bridge the divide between east and west neighborhoods, is facing a financial reckoning as estimated costs soar and city staff warn the project could drain…

Roads • By Nathan Bernier, KUT • Nov 21, 2024

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Thousands of Austin's bats will be displaced by I-35 expansion

The expansion of Interstate 35 through Austin is set to displace more than 100 homes and businesses. But an even larger community is being forced to relocate: thousands of bats that roost in the highway’s bridges. While the Texas Department of…

Transportation • By Nathan Bernier, KUT • Nov 1, 2024

TxDOT argues in court that I-35 never caused racial discrimination – contradicting TxDOT

The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is arguing in federal court that Interstate 35 didn’t unfairly disadvantage Black or Latino Austinites, contradicting the state agency’s own historical assessments of the highway that opened in 1962. “Defendant specifically denies the allegations…

Courts • By Nathan Bernier, KUT • Jun 4, 2024

Funding freeze for I-35 expansion denied in heated CAMPO vote

An attempt to freeze funding for the Interstate 35 expansion through Central Austin until the project’s impact on air quality can be more fully assessed was easily defeated Monday in a vote by the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization’s planning…

Roads • By Nathan Bernier, KUT • May 14, 2024

UT pledges $13.5 million to cover I-35 from Dean Keeton to 15th Street

The University of Texas is making a $13.5 million down payment to cover Interstate 35 from 15th Street to Dean Keeton, a feat that will be made possible by a state project to widen and lower the highway through Central Austin.…

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Austin has only weeks to decide where to put parks over I-35

Roads • By Nathan Bernier, KUT • Apr 10, 2025

UT hopes to play leading role in Austin’s evolving development scene

Austin • By Chad Swiatecki • Mar 27, 2025