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Old Posted Jul 27, 2022, 3:45 PM
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Maybe So,

However one of the board members from the Edwards Aquifer Authority
(whom even admitted that he, was no expert on this topic), whom I shall quote here, said in an interview that he had seen our famous- Blue Hole, come into use as a recharge source during summer hot and dry spells when there is no water being discharged from it.
Who knows where other possible areas of permiability may exist? This is the only part of Musk's plan I have doubts about. Plans for the financial development of an area can have unexpected ruinations, results, for mother nature.
This is an area where I fear a billionaire. It SEEMS a parallel too much like Wal-Mart coming to a small town. Perhaps I sound reactionary but I know we cannot, outsmart mother nature.

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Feasibility studies should not be conducted?



This is not over the recharge zone, but it is over the artesian zone.



This project that may not happen does not warrant calling one of the most successful people in the world a conman. He brought the auto industry in the USA kicking and screaming into the electric car race.

We shall see how the project goes. Again, if a private company wants to waste money at least it is not our local tax dollars spent.

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TxDOT gives cold shoulder to San Antonio’s latest plan to remake Broadway

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The City of San Antonio’s latest plan to bring the Texas Department of Transportation back on board with its plans for the the Broadway corridor appears dead on arrival.

San Antonio submitted an updated proposal for the Broadway renovation that would make some changes to address TxDOT’s concerns with traffic congestion through synchronized traffic signals, consolidated driveways and raised medians to eliminate left turns. The new plan would still include reducing the number of lanes from four to six, something TxDOT has said it won’t consider.

City leaders presented the plan to TxDOT officials, including Texas Transportation Commission Chairman J. Bruce Bugg Jr., on June 14. City Manager Erik Walsh said Tuesday the city hadn’t received a response, but TxDOT later issued a statement reiterating the agency’s opposition to lane reductions.

“TxDOT has received the City’s proposal and while we do not agree with the findings to reduce the lanes from six lanes to four lanes, we believe this creates an opportunity for continued conversations,” TxDOT spokeswoman Raquelle Lewis said in the statement.

TxDOT has taken an aggressive stance to stop cities from pursuing projects like the Broadway renovation, which it says create traffic problems for people who rely on the state highway system.

Its commission voted to reclaim part of Broadway stretching from Interstate 35 to Mulberry Avenue in order to stop San Antonio’s proposed lane closures in January. It also strong-armed Alamo Heights into removing planned lane closures from its own portion of Broadway, in order for the city to secure money for much-needed flood control.

“TxDOT remains committed to making improvements to Broadway without reducing motor vehicle lanes,” Bugg stated Tuesday. He pointed to other places where the agency and city could collaborate on improvements to the road, such as “burial of utility lines, better sidewalks, and landscaping.”

Under threat of losing a project city leaders view as crucial to creating a more walkable city, however, San Antonio officials say money intended for the state-owned portion of Broadway could be moved to other projects if the lane reductions aren’t kept in place.

San Antonio voters approved the Broadway revamp as part of the 2017 municipal bond, and the city planned to spend roughly $42 million on the project, money that Walsh said would likely be used for other street repairs if the state declines this latest proposal.

“They’re going to have to figure out what to do with Broadway,” Walsh said of TxDOT and its desire to push a version of the project without lane reductions.

“If it’s a state road, then there’s work that needs to be done … but we will not find ourselves in a position where we’re using city money anymore on this project,” he added.

Federal money for the state’s portion of the project is also hanging in the balance.

An agency that coordinates the area’s state, local and federal transportation plans moved Broadway off of its short-range project list in June, and suggested that the $28 million in federal funding it oversees may no longer be eligible for the state’s version of the plan because it lacks the environmental component.

San Antonio is also marching ahead with plans to reduce the number of lanes on the city-owned portion of the road stretching from Houston Street to I-35.

“Let’s say that this [proposal] doesn’t work, and they [TxDOT] want to keep all the lanes,” said Walsh. “All those lanes are going to go, as they go underneath I-35 … down into two lanes, so traffic is going to back up at some point.”

Traffic studies conducted by the city and state do not include projections for congestion caused by the potential sudden reduction of lanes at I-35, and TxDOT did not respond to a question about the issue Tuesday.

Walsh said the state has an opportunity to work the city on softening that transition, if they can come together on proposals for the stretches of renovation project that run from I-35 to Mulberry Avenue, and from Mulberry Avenue to Burr Road.

“The design for Mulberry to 35 was practically done,” said Walsh. “The design of the road from Mulberry to Burr, which happens to be the widest part of roadway, hasn’t been done, so that part could look differently as we work something out with the state.”

Using a state-funded traffic study conducted by Jacobs Synchro, the city asked the Broadway plan’s designer, Pape Dawson Engineers, to come up with ways to tweak the plan to reduce traffic.

The new proposal focuses on moving cars through intersections more efficiently, while keeping the bike and pedestrian lanes the city views as crucial to creating a multimodal corridor. Its synchronized lights mean drivers should not have to stop more than once on the corridor, according to the city.

This is “truly a win-win because it gives the state their number one issue of capacity improvement, and it keeps us on track to deliver a project that voters approved,” said Walsh.

TxDOT, meanwhile, pointed to the Jacobs Synchro study as proof the project would create future traffic headaches in a rapidly growing city.

“Results from the most recent traffic studies show that population growth in the area necessitates this capacity, even with optimistic assumptions about future travel behavior shifting to other roadways or alternative modes of transportation,” said Lewis.
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Broadway redeveloping plan tweaked to further ease congestion

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In a late-hour effort to appease the state, the city of San Antonio has tweaked its voter-approved plan to redevelop Broadway from the Pearl to the University of the Incarnate Word by further improving intersections along the corridor to ease traffic and reduce congestion.

Like the city’s original plan, the new blueprint would reduce the road from six to four traffic lanes and add wider sidewalks and protected bike lanes. Those details proved a sticking point in January for San Antonio banker J. Bruce Bugg, chairman of the Texas Transportation Commission, who cited fears of future congestion in leading a 3-1 vote to quash the 2017 bond project.

The vote abruptly scuttled years of coordination between the Texas Department of Transportation and city officials on the project.

In June, City Manager Erik Walsh and Mayor Ron Nirenberg briefed Bugg and Marc Williams, executive director of TxDOT, on the city’s new plans. Unlike its previous blueprint, the city’s updated plan does not rely on its own traffic data — which TxDOT rejected — or assume that anyone will park their vehicles and start walking or cycling after the road is redeveloped.
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San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg and City Manager Erik Walsh met with Texas Transportation Commission Chairman J. Bruce Bugg and Texas Department of Transportation Executive Director Marc Williams Thursday over the gridlock that’s halted a voter-approved remake of the Broadway corridor.

As a result, city officials have hit the brakes on the $42 million project.

“The Broadway project — and all of the local funding for it — is on hold,” Walsh said.
https://www.bizjournals.com/sananton...officials.html

So as residents we all suffer with that awful road because Texas and San Antonio are fighting about something entirely different than this project, but decided to use it as leverage???
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Political gridlock could stall a plan approved by voters years ago.

By W. Scott Bailey – Senior Reporter, San Antonio Business Journal
Aug 5, 2022
San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg and City Manager Erik Walsh met with Texas Transportation Commission Chairman J. Bruce Bugg and Texas Department of Transportation Executive Director Marc Williams Thursday over the gridlock that’s halted a voter-approved remake of the Broadway corridor.

As a result, city officials have hit the brakes on the $42 million project.

“The Broadway project — and all of the local funding for it — is on hold,” Walsh said.

Backers of the city's plan, including Centro San Antonio CEO Matt Brown, insist it's critical to supporting redevelopment along an area connecting midtown and downtown.

At the heart of the stalemate is a divide over how many lanes are needed along a key stretch of Broadway Street from Alamo Heights south to Interstate 35.

TxDOT officials insist on keeping all six lanes. The city’s multimodal plan, which local voters approved as part of the 2017 municipal bond package, reduces the lane count to four to accommodate pedestrian and bicycle traffic and other improvements.

City officials tweaked that plan in recent days in search of a compromise. But both sides are still far apart.

“We learned that TxDOT’s priority is not improving traffic flow and mitigating congestion. It’s all about six lanes of asphalt, regardless of capacity,” ,” Nirenberg said.

Bugg said prior to the meeting the state was willing to work with San Antonio on visual enhancements along the street, such as buried utility lines, improved sidewalks and new landscaping. Those elements are consistent with the agreement TxDOT already reached with the City of Alamo Heights for its portion of Broadway.

Bugg added that TxDOT could also work with the city to seek federal funds supporting the development of enhanced bicycle lanes on other roads. But state officials are not budging on the lane count.

“TxDOT tells us they will work on a plan that keeps the six-lane roadway and addresses pedestrian safety and multimodal mobility,” Nirenberg said. “We’ll review it when we receive it.”

Said Walsh, “Ideally, TxDOT will find a way to accomplish everything that was included in the original voter-approved project.”

Short of a workable compromise, the plan for Broadway approved by voters could be permanently parked.
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Musk Watch: Elon tweets his P.O. box, wants Central Texas hyperloop

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/lo...n-17389392.php

Flight-tracking apps are not just for checking to see if Nick Saban or Urban Meyer are shopping for McMansions in Westlake. Earlier this year, a college student named Jack Sweeney made the news after his Twitter account, @ElonJet, received a DM that Sweeney says came from Musk himself. Sweeney tracks a Gulfstream G650ER that he has pinpointed as Musk's private jet, and posts its whereabouts, fuel used, and emissions.

Musk, according to a story in the New York Times, was not happy about the account, and allegedly offered Sweeney $5,000 to deactivate it. The billionaire appeared nervous for security reasons, which is understandable, but does not jibe with a recent tweet by Musk.

Nice letter from Bill Nix, who would’ve been my prof at Stanford if I hadn’t put grad studies on (permanent) deferment pic.twitter.com/ioq0mGwN7K
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 19, 2022

Musk posted a screenshot of a letter written to him by Bill Nix, a professor emeritus of engineering at Stanford. The content of the letter is mostly boring — stuff about batteries, fawning praise about Elon — but what Musk's followers glommed onto was the address line. Nix sent the letter to Musk's P.O. box in Lakeway, which Musk failed to crop out or cover with his thumb. Reactions ranged from thirsty and weird ("We are neighbors! Come hang with us sometime. You still owe me lunch from years ago. I don’t forget.") to, well ... most were thirsty and/or weird.

Is that your big ol thumb?
— Plain ol’ Chris (@bigstupid420) August 19, 2022

Days later, Musk, the man concerned about security, still hasn't taken it down. With that kind of epic engagement, how could he?

Hyperloop Back

Remember Elon Musk's big idea? No, not the Mars thing. Not the electric cars. Before the tunnels. Ah yes, the hyperloop, Musk's circa-2012 magnetic propulsion train that seemed to have run out of steam a few years later when he started building rockets and digging under Bastrop.

Would be cool to do a (much simplified) Hyperloop demo tunnel between maybe Austin & San Antonio?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 22, 2022

Well, it's back, I guess, and Musk wants to connect San Antonio and Austin (who is he, my editor?) via the hyperloop. Seeing as he's having an issue digging a hole from the Alamo City to, uh, Silicon Hills (does anyone call it this?) because San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg has no time for him, Musk is floating the levitated train again. Or maybe he's just posting.

Either way, a bullet train between San Antonio and Austin would be wonderful. Or a regular train. Anything to keep me away from the traffic in Schertz, baby. They love their traffic in Schertz don't they, folks?

Speaking of...

Baby You Can Drive My Car for $15,000 Extra

Our boy is raising the price on the self-driving feature at Tesla. That's a 25% increase beginning on September 5, so lock in your $12,000 Full Self-Driving package today.

Tesla's Autopilot program has raised some questions after crashes that Musk said he didn't know about and a finding by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that the self-driving mechanism shuts itself off one second before a crash. Seems normal.

Anyway, one ticket for the hyperloop please.
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^^ As long as he doesn't want to dig a 75-mile tunnel. Just build the thing above ground using pre-constructed tube segments and configure it so it doesn't require proprietary Musk tech. It should be able to be changed and/or upgraded in the future if a competitor comes along with a better system, and therefore reusable, just like the railroad tracks have always used a standard grade.
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More of the same from TXDOT



As development comes to the Mission District, TxDOT’s stance on corridor improvements disappoints

https://sanantonioreport.org/san-ant...lopment-txdot/

Residents and business owners in the neighborhoods near the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park have long asked for corridor improvements and pedestrian enhancements to Roosevelt Avenue.

The continuous sidewalks, bike paths, turn lanes and lane reductions they’ve wanted were finally within sight when the city allocated $8 million for the project in the 2017 bond.

According to the original plan, on a 1-mile section of Roosevelt between Steves Avenue and just past Riverside Drive, there would be two lanes of continuous traffic instead of four, plus a two-way left turn lane, designated bike lanes and wider sidewalks.

Traffic studies showed the redesigned roadway could handle projected vehicle traffic through 2039.

Now it’s back to the drawing board.

The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) told the city earlier this year that, as with Broadway Street, no lane reductions would be allowed on the state-owned Roosevelt. And no bike lanes could be added, either.
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As development comes to the Mission District, TxDOT’s stance on corridor improvements disappoints

https://sanantonioreport.org/san-ant...lopment-txdot/

Residents and business owners in the neighborhoods near the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park have long asked for corridor improvements and pedestrian enhancements to Roosevelt Avenue.

The continuous sidewalks, bike paths, turn lanes and lane reductions they’ve wanted were finally within sight when the city allocated $8 million for the project in the 2017 bond.

According to the original plan, on a 1-mile section of Roosevelt between Steves Avenue and just past Riverside Drive, there would be two lanes of continuous traffic instead of four, plus a two-way left turn lane, designated bike lanes and wider sidewalks.

Traffic studies showed the redesigned roadway could handle projected vehicle traffic through 2039.

Now it’s back to the drawing board.

The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) told the city earlier this year that, as with Broadway Street, no lane reductions would be allowed on the state-owned Roosevelt. And no bike lanes could be added, either.
In a veritable sea of State incompetence and bad policies, TxDOT still manages to stand out from the pack.
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It isn't incompetence, it is being done on purpose. Abbott has got to own those Libs.
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It isn't incompetence, it is being done on purpose. Abbott has got to own those Libs.
Sadly, that's very accurate.
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It isn't incompetence, it is being done on purpose. Abbott has got to own those Libs.
That's part of it for sure, but TxDOT also genuinely subscribes to the bankrupt More Cars More Highways ideology. So while I agree the Broadway/Roosevelt hits are politically motivated in part, they're also completely consistent with their overall flawed approach to transportation.
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Converse Greenway Trail connects three parks on the Northeast Side

https://sanantonioreport.org/trailis...reenway-trail/

Converse Greenway Trail

Offers: Walking, running, biking
Location: Access points at Northampton Park (9057 S. Seguin Road), Converse City Park (307 School St.) and Converse North Park (8200 Spring Town St.)
Trail miles: Approximately 3 miles paved, more than 1.5 miles of dirt trails at City Park.
Restrooms: Toilets and potable water at City and North parks.
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San Antonio will add 2 new greenway trails for Cathedral Rock Park

https://www.mysanantonio.com/lifesty...s-17430754.php

On the city's Northwest Side, Cathedral Rock Park offers family-friendly fun and walking and cycling opportunities. However, the small 57-acre park could use more lengthy trails as most aren't even a mile. I hiked about five, but that's because I looped several of the trails twice.

Luckily, the city's parks and recreation department told MySA that two new trails will connect to the Leon Creek Greenway segment inside the park and open around late September and early October. The Leon Creek Greenway offers 20 miles of paved multi-use trails and park connections. It's part of the growing city-wide Howard W. Peak Greenway Trail System.

According to the city, the new trails are the Culebra Tributary (Cathedral Rock to Tezel Road and 1.8 miles) and the Culebra Creek trail (Cathedral Rock Park to Grissom Road and 1.2 miles). Cathedral Rock Park has 10 named trails with the longest being the Cathedral Rock Trail at (0.4 miles).
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I guess a lot of that area outside 1604 is unincorporated still, but I would love for the Culebra greenway to continue all the way to Government Canyon (Government Creek is a tributary of Culebra Creek further up)
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Converse Greenway Trail connects three parks on the Northeast Side

https://sanantonioreport.org/trailis...reenway-trail/

Converse Greenway Trail

Offers: Walking, running, biking
Location: Access points at Northampton Park (9057 S. Seguin Road), Converse City Park (307 School St.) and Converse North Park (8200 Spring Town St.)
Trail miles: Approximately 3 miles paved, more than 1.5 miles of dirt trails at City Park.
Restrooms: Toilets and potable water at City and North parks.
And a fitness station at the southeast end.
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"As behind-the-scenes talks toward a proposed airport-to-downtown tunnel continue, Elon Musk’s Boring Co. has increased by as much as $15 million the amount it’s willing to put up to get the transit project going. No agreements have been signed, but the bigger offer and continuing discussions indicate the project is moving forward."

"The Boring Co. has proposed building a loop of tunnels to ferry passengers in Tesla electric vehicles between San Antonio International Airport and downtown. The company said that the system, at an estimated cost of $247 million to $289 million, could carry as many as 112,000 passengers daily on a route along U.S. 281, producing annual revenue of up to $25 million for the RMA. The company based its projections on carrying 10 percent of visitors who land at the airport."

How about basing your projections on your project's maximum carrying capacity?

"The RMA board — whose members are appointed by Bexar County commissioners and its chair by Gov. Greg Abbott...."

" “What the city should realize is, do we want to be a sleeping city and just sit here and wait for progress to grow around us, or do we want to be part of the growth process and have people say, ‘Look at San Antonio, look at them being creative and look at what they’re doing?’” " Extremely manipulative quote here. I would feel better about half-baked harebrained schemes if there wasn't so much shaming and psychological arm-twisting.

https://www.expressnews.com/business...o-17462253.php
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To be fair there is a point to be made with that. SA needs to think outside the box a little more. I'm not sure if this is the best way forward but we have a huge leg up on Austin infrastructure wise, if the city isn't proactive while it's growing at the rate it is, there's gonna be a lot of problems down the line.
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to be fair there is a point to be made with that. Sa needs to think outside the box a little more. I'm not sure if this is the best way forward but we have a huge leg up on austin infrastructure wise, if the city isn't proactive while it's growing at the rate it is, there's gonna be a lot of problems down the line.
this x 100.
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"As behind-the-scenes talks toward a proposed airport-to-downtown tunnel continue, Elon Musk’s Boring Co. has increased by as much as $15 million the amount it’s willing to put up to get the transit project going. No agreements have been signed, but the bigger offer and continuing discussions indicate the project is moving forward."

"The Boring Co. has proposed building a loop of tunnels to ferry passengers in Tesla electric vehicles between San Antonio International Airport and downtown. The company said that the system, at an estimated cost of $247 million to $289 million, could carry as many as 112,000 passengers daily on a route along U.S. 281, producing annual revenue of up to $25 million for the RMA. The company based its projections on carrying 10 percent of visitors who land at the airport."

How about basing your projections on your project's maximum carrying capacity?

"The RMA board — whose members are appointed by Bexar County commissioners and its chair by Gov. Greg Abbott...."

" “What the city should realize is, do we want to be a sleeping city and just sit here and wait for progress to grow around us, or do we want to be part of the growth process and have people say, ‘Look at San Antonio, look at them being creative and look at what they’re doing?’” " Extremely manipulative quote here. I would feel better about half-baked harebrained schemes if there wasn't so much shaming and psychological arm-twisting.

https://www.expressnews.com/business...o-17462253.php
Pretty sure the company has estimates of it's capacity, and they are well north of 10%l of visitors currently landing at SAT.

And the fact that so many here write this off out of hand kind of proves the point that SA does not like to think outside the box. Pretty sure there were negative Nellies when it came to the Riverwalk, and Hemisfair as well.

I'm not sold on the project, but seeing as they are asking nothing of me, I'm willing to see how it plays out. Or are only taxpayer funded projects not "harebrained"?
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