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Originally Posted by jtown,man
Eliminate the use of cars? I know you said "eventually" but really, in Austin Texas, you think there will be a time sans some great technological leap in the future where there are no cars?
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My point, really, is that it won't kill any Austinites if some streets are permanently closed to make way for transit. Drivers will just have to drive on the plentiful remaining streets, though maybe those streets will be a tad more congested, which might get drivers out of their cars and onto transit. Make things easier for transit, not easier for cars. I can imagine closing Congress Avenue from the Capitol to the river, or even further south, to create a transit mall. Or if not Congress, then one of the streets running parallel to Congress.
And there's nothing irrational about the idea of eventually eliminating the use of private cars, especially if it's in limited, specific parts of town. "Eventually" is a REALLY long time.