Texas State Highway Loop 1

Certainly in the state of Texas, it's more than 100 years old.

It's a proud course there right, uh, west of, of Mopac, uh, on your way to the Hula Hut.

It's a great golf course.

And now, so I, I would say surprisingly, because I don't know where you are on this, but you know, my friends in the world have been in this market now 40 years, or since 1991, have always said, "Play it while you can.

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Higgs.

I mean, from, [laughs] uh, Mopac west down, uh, down to th- that direction, I mean, that's as, as fertile a pl- plot of land.

But the city and the university came to an agreement, a pathway with Kirk Watson as the mayor of Austin, and Jim Davis, the president of the University of Texas, a pathway to a plan.

And Waymo, uh, recently started offering rides on the freeway here in Austin.

Is this something the city is going to be tracking? Because it's hard for me to drive on 35 or Mopac.

I'm wondering what is the Waymo gonna do on the highway? [laughs]

Yeah.

Um, so 35 and Mopac are, are owned by TxDOT.

Um-

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All I can think of, they just must have hard and fast and firm rules about letting kids out of the bus Unless it's their stop.

Because this was not on I-35 or Mopac or Lamar or Burnett Road.

This was a rural road.

And I'm picturing in my mind that they're driving along and they pass this little kitty in the rural part.

really bad

decision to stop that bus.

Again, if this would have been on a busy interstate or a Mopac-like or a busy roadway, yeah, definitely.

But not in this case.

And when the troops came out here, obviously they had to have barracks, they had to have a hospital.

The building that is closest to Mopac, the one with our LED sign on it, was the first building built out here, was the Arsenal.

And then they built a mess hall, Building 6, 45,000-square-foot structure.

They put it up in three months and fed 4,000 hot meals a day in that building.

Yeah, it is.

Now, the other big debate was with Circle C near Mopac in 45.

City Council moved to loosen the two decades old Save Our Springs settlement to allow a developer to build a more dense project all inside the Barton Springs watershed.

The kind of move that is sure to draw a lot of fire from environmental groups, of course, and some neighbors.

But I think there's probably some other interests involved here.

Now, there was another agenda item that was approved that got the folks in Circle C talking.

Circle C, near Mopac and 45, the city council has voted to loosen the two-decade-old Save Our Springs settlement to allow this developer to build denser and skip some of the required road work as well, all inside the Barton Springs watershed.

They say this kind of move is drawing a line of fire from various environmental groups, but also the people that live there in the Circle C area.

My wife's a nurse practitioner down there.

And we live off of Slaughter and Mopac.

But if you go south on 35 any time of the day, it's solid from South Austin, South Park Meadows, all the way to San Antonio.

It's crazy.