The End of the Highway.

"As we think about removing things like highways, what are ways that we could provide benefits to community members for whom the highway was a barrier - who are no longer there?" If TxDOT engineers use CAMPO's forecasts, as they've said they will, they might conclude that a much wider highway in Austin is required to accommodate the booming population growth projected in Williamson County - even if the only way to make that growth materialize is by building a bigger highway. Because of a 1995 state law governing the sale of highway rights-of-way, the City of Dallas - or a nonprofit community land trust - would have to buy any "surplus" land created by the removal of I-345 from TxDOT at fair market value, which is likely out of reach for anyone but for-profit developers. FEATURES ON JANUARY 19, 2018, SHORTLY BEFORE 10 AM, ROBIN LAFLEUR exited Texas Highway 290 at First Street, as she did every morning on her way to work at Austin Habitat for Humanity. [Extracted from the article]