TxDOT releases final Environmental Impact Statement
posted to the Council message board suggesting further improvements, including further stormwater runoff treatment, added non-vehicular crossings, and amended air quality/emissions analysis.
“We continue to disagree that expansion will solve our congestion challenges,” they wrote. “We continue to have serious concerns about the safety, environmental, and climate impacts of highway expansions in general … more cars set us back as a city on our climate equity, sustainability, and Vision Zero traffic safety goals.”
On Monday, Rethink35 announced a press conference on August 30 to reveal the next phase of its strategy to fight back. “As a heat dome scorches central Texas in record temperatures, there could be no greater insult than TxDOT announcing its decision to massively expand I-35 through Austin,” wrote Rethink35 Board President, calling it “a project that would divide our city with a heat-trapping asphalt chasm and worsen climate change, making future heat domes hotter and longer.
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