I-35 is more than a road. It's been sculpting Austin's housing scene for more than 60 years, encouraging endless expansion and making gridlock a lifestyle.
, Austin's Black Cultural District. Eppright was born in the 1950s and grew up in redlined East Austin.
"Highways provide access. They can increase the value of land they touch," said Gian-Claudia Sciara, a professor of regional planning at the University of Texas."Land that may not have been accessible previously is now accessible." "We kind of know [sprawl] when we see it," Sciara said."Low-rise commercial development, strip malls, less dense employment opportunities, more driving involved. Sometimes it has a negative aesthetic connotation."
In recent years, new highways have spurred suburban growth. Since State Highway 130 opened in 2006, the population of Hutto quadrupled to about 40,000. SH 130 goes through Hutto. But there's another hidden cost to living in the suburbs, and it can fluctuate as wildly as the price of gas: the time you spend in traffic.
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