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Originally Posted by dphogan
Have you been to the rodeo? Houston has the largest rodeo in the world and it raises hundreds of millions of dollars and takes over NRG Park and they fill the 70,000 seat NRG Stadium for 3 weeks straight. Rodeo's aren't some cows and horses. They are great entertainment and I suggest you check one out.
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Yes, I have, way out at the Travis County Expo Center where it belongs, and thought it was lame. Not really my scene. Not really for city folk.
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Originally Posted by dphogan
I grew up in Houston.
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You didn't even have to tell us this. It was obvious. Don't Houston my Austin, bro.
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Originally Posted by dphogan
You can have both. 35 is the main artery from Mexico to Canada. You have tremendous amounts of cargo and people passing through each day.
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Right, but we shouldn't. These people should be going
around Austin, not through it. We need to make passing through Austin
harder, not easier. I know they're in a hurry, but there's a city here; where people live. We don't want all that crap coming through our city.
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Originally Posted by dphogan
you're not going to get enough people out of their cars to ever make Austin like NYC or Chicago where you can take the train or subway or other mass transit.
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Yes we are. There's no other option. You can't build highways through cities. That's a dumb, outdated idea. We have to make Austin urban, not suburban, as you'd like.