Planning for an Unattainable Fantasy
5th November 2019
The Antiplanner peeks behind the curtain.
Austin is one of the fastest-growing cities in America, and the city of Austin and Austin’s transit agency, Capital Metro, have a plan for dealing with all of the traffic that will be generated by that growth: assume that a third of the people who now drive alone to work will switch to transit, bicycling, walking, or telecommuting by 2039. That’s right up there with planning for dinner by assuming that food will magically appear on the table the same way it does in Hogwarts.
Austin, like most urban areas in Texas, is a Blue pustule on the otherwise rosy-Red cheek of a great state. Presumably concentrating all of the crazy in certain locations allows the rest of us to go about our business in peace.