The Austin-American Statesman came out with an article today titled: Report: Austin remains nation's most congested medium-sized city. And a subtitle of... "City probably should be in higher population category; report doesn't account for new toll roads."
The article was written by the Austin-American Statesman Staff. The Texas Transportation Institute conducted the report and listed Austin as the worst medium sized city for traffic jams. The Statesman reported the findings in the article (see here), but it mostly covers excuses for the traffic such as Austin is really "bigger" than a medium sized city. Who cares? WE STILL HAVE A TRAFFIC PROBLEM! It really doesn't matter how many people live here.
The problem is the liberal Austin City Council has refused to consider new highways over the last 20 years. They don't want to cut down any trees. They don't want to make any neighborhood upset with new highway construction. The City Council has been so naive they thought that if we did not build new roadways, people would not move to Austin. Well, here we are in 2007 reading articles from the Statesman reporting traffic problems and citing excuses at the same time. I thought "professional" journalists were suppose to give unbiased opinions when reporting, unlike all the immature bloggers on the Internet! 
Who really cares if Austin is a medium or big city? Who cares if Austin has a population of 855,000 or 1.45 million in the metro area? The only thing that matters today is that we have a traffic problem and the only way to fix it is to build new roads. Excuses may help the Statesman feel better and steer some of the blame about from our councilman. The council should just use the population number of 855,000. That way they can feel justified in not building the needed roads 15 years ago because "if you don't build it, they won't come!"
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