{"id":1180,"date":"2006-06-15T08:39:40","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T13:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2006\/06\/15\/trafficconstruction-bright-spots\/"},"modified":"2006-06-15T08:39:40","modified_gmt":"2006-06-15T13:39:40","slug":"trafficconstruction-bright-spots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/trafficconstruction-bright-spots\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic\/Construction Bright Spots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"22697108_bfdd86a97e.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/austin.metblogs.com\/archives\/images\/2006\/06\/22697108_bfdd86a97e.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>Some people&#8217;s commutes are about to get easier. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news8austin.com\/content\/top_stories\/default.asp?ArID=164313\">News8Austin<\/a> and others are reporting that the 45th street construction that started a little over a year ago is complete. The entire length of 45th from Mopac to Airport Blvd got some new sidewalks and water\/wastewater lines. It was completed a month early and funded by a 1998 bond issuance, something to keep in mind when the bond elections come up this November. The Chronicle has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinchronicle.com\/issues\/dispatch\/2006-06-16\/pols_beside.html\">details<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinchronicle.com\/issues\/dispatch\/2006-06-16\/pols_point.html\">opinions<\/a> about what&#8217;ll be included in that package.<\/p>\n<p>I also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/content\/news\/stories\/local\/06\/9road.html\">saw last week<\/a> that the work on 183 between I-35 and Springdale\/290 is nearly completed and expected to open by the end of the month, a welcome relief for me as the diversion onto the service road and the light at Cameron Road adds at least 10 minutes to my morning commute. The stretch of 183 between I-35 and Ben White is to become a toll road once more improvements are made. I&#8217;m unsure of the timeline on that, but now that I said toll road, this post is sure to get some comments. Toll road, toll road, toll road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people&#8217;s commutes are about to get easier. News8Austin and others are reporting that the 45th street construction that started a little over a year ago is complete. The entire length of 45th from Mopac to Airport Blvd got some new sidewalks and water\/wastewater lines. It was completed a month early and funded by a <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/trafficconstruction-bright-spots\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-j2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}