EEK! widening Koenig/2222

So my hood listserve has caused me great anxiety this morning. Rumors for now, but, the topic of widening Koenig/2222 has come up again. It has been discussed off and on for over 25 years. Plans for it have been to widen it and or create an overpass that would take the traffic from I35 to Mopac. EEK! I can hear the sounds of buldozers razing my home and a few others to make this lil dream happen. Okay, perspective, it's just the hood's fear talking, until the Austin Chronicle writes about it...I'll worry when the Austin Chronicle starts saying it's a rumor, by then it's actually TXDOT or city council talk and worth worrying about.

So I guess business and TXDOT would like nothing more than for all us Austinites to pack ourselves up in tiny condos and surrender our yards in the name of progress, density and no sprawl. Sprawl sux but so does living in a tiny lil condo with no yard and under the shade of freeways. Even then, sprawl continues to happen and will always because it's what happens when people continue to cry out for more places to spend their hard earned cash. Isn't there some happy compromise? I still say...it's too much retail already, just too much.