Planning for an Unattainable Fantasy
18th November 2019
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 is one of the metropolitan behavioral sinks that exist in Texas so that Californians who wander in but still want to live under socialism will have some place to go. As Kevin Williamson likes to say, Austin isn’t Texas, although you can see Texas from Austin.