by David Abdel
Several decades ago, Austin was faced with a conundrum. The growth was becoming exponential and its infrastructure, as well as its longtime residents, were not ready for it. So, faced with this seeming inevitability, everyone read the writing on the wall and came to the conclusion it would be in everyone’s best interest to prepare the town for considerably higher populations, making profound investments in quality of life, transportation and infrastructure to handle the fast growing population.
Wait ... no they didn’t. The neighbors of Austin fought hard at every junction to attempt to ward off the growth, setting Austin back several decades. The prevailing attitude was that, if they continue to vote against progressive measures, somehow time and progress would reverse course and bring Austin back to a weird little secret. As we all know, that didn’t happen, and now the price tag for fixing it is in the billions. Well, in this way, Kyle is the new Austin.
