More downtown street snafus

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May 302006
 

Closing the two right lanes of Cesar Chavez between Colorado and Brazos should produce almost as much fun as the now finished construction at Riverside and Congress, but not nearly as much fun as the street changes that occurred during all of the construction around City Hall and the CSC buildings. Those of us travelling east on Cesar Chavez and turning south on Congress can’t seem to catch a break this year.

 Posted by on May 30, 2006 at 4:38 pm

South/East Austin Crime Spike?

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May 302006
 

I half-jokingly made fun of K-EYE last week about their headlines, but we appear to have had a rough weekend in South/East Austin.

A man was stabbed to death in an apartment complex across the street from Travis High School on Sunday and another man was shot during a home invasion yesterday. It appears there was a second shooting later in the day. I think the Statesman story last week on Mission Hill, a street only a few blocks from my house and notorious among the neighbors, has made me somewhat hypersensitive, but this still seems like another outlier weekend for crime by Austin standards. I personally thought the Mission Hill story was a bit exaggerated in its description of the street.

 Posted by on May 30, 2006 at 11:50 am