Austin’s Cool History and Scary Future
// October 13th, 2008 // general
In a classic random journey through the Interwebs, I came upon this really nifty site. It’s a photo history of major road construction in Austin. Here are my faves:
- Beautiful road before ugly IH-35 took over
- The triangle, pre-triangle (by about 45 years)
- Pre-Mopac highway from Camp Mabry
- Pennybacker bridge on its way
I found that site from comments on this photo, showing astroturf being laid between the lanes of 2222 near Mopac. Yay for randomness! And history!
On the sad side of things, I was recently tasked by a client of mine to include an Austin skyline photo on his site. I thought about it a bit and, in fact, I have no idea what the Austin skyline is anymore. So I did a Google images search… and freaked when I saw this shot! Who in the world decided we needed to look like Dallas?! *Sigh*. Bye bye history. Hello modern concrete jungle of Dallas-/LA-ness.
Joe CSays:
December 2nd, 2008 at 20:49
Thanks for sharing. It’s a wonder that they even built these roads. It doesn’t look like that had enough cars to justify it. No traffic, whatsoever.