Austin, Texas: A Smart City that I am Touring.

[$ecular#eckler]

I arrived in the evening of July 8 - Saturday Night. I did not take many pictures that night - I was more interested in enjoying the new cityscape that I approached by bicycle from San Antonio a couple of days prior.

It looked like this guy had a needle sticking out of his arm and he was sleeping in the kneeling position. He is across the street from the civic theater, and the sidewalk wraps around a huge lawn that is across the Colorado River from downtown Austin; and this is where Austin City Limits concerts are staged. It is a very picturesque cityscape.

The small building in the middle to the left are the offices of Silicon Labs, and then what is kind of hard to see is the City Hall, and then a parking garage with first-floor retail. All three buildings have the same stonework. It is obvious that Silicon Labs is the primary smart city planner for Austin.

Silicon Labs

Silicon Labs makes silicon, software and solutions for a more connected world.

www.silabs.com

https://www.2ndstreetdistrict.com/

And it appears that they built a neighborhood for tech company employees and municipal offices. Not a bad idea. This is a typical shop in the Silicon Labs neighborhood, and it seems to be getting ready for the Barbie Movie that will be at the cinema across the street.

Almost didn't see it how they kind of hid the entrance in the middle of the block of first-floor retail stores.

There are no McDonalds, BurgerKings, Popeyes, TacoBell, or any fast food national chain, in the downtown area, except.

Interesting. A closed-on-Sunday conservative food shop is allowed in the liberal haven neighborhood of downtown Austin.
And that is a delivery robot. There are vehicle robots that patrol around the State Capitol Building at night. I don't have any pictures yet.

And there is a lot of building construction going on - huge buildings!
On the other side of downtown they are putting this giant spike into the ground!

The building to the right is an old housing project - and that will probably come down in a couple of decades. Yeah, you see; they don't show it in the architectural vision.

https://www.kxan.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2022/09/waterlinelookingeast.jpg?resize=876,438

Things are definitely building in Austin. Smart City.

Notice Silicon Labs office building and City Hall in the background, again. This is the bathroom for the giant lawn.

 

[Meister]

Looks like you have found the democrats utopia

 

[Pete7469]

The city of autism is going to end up just as bad as any place in commiefornia if the state doesn't continue to undermine the lunatics who run the place. I wish we could get the moonbats to go back to some other place.

 

[$ecular#eckler]

Pete7469,

Maybe you can join me in my protest against Silicon Labs and City Hall this week?

 

[JGalt]

What's with the garbage all over the sidewalk in that last pic? Actually Austin is a dumb city. If you don't believe me, go hang out on 6th street at 2 AM and see if you don't get your ass kicked or robbed. I lived there in the 80's, and it's not the same city it was back then.

But if you want to do something fun, go to the Capitol building and night and count how many of those big-ass Mexican cockroaches are crawling on the walls. Those things get about 2" long, so bring a flyswatter.

 

[$ecular#eckler]

JGalt

6th Street and Brazos
Bed, Bath and Beyond

 

[JGalt]

JGalt

6th Street and Brazos
Bed, Bath and Beyond
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Crack heads. Where'd they come from? There weren't any of those when I lived there.

 

[Arlette]

Crack heads. Where'd they come from? There weren't any of those when I lived there.

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So when did they run your ass outa town?

 

[JGalt]

So when did they run your ass outa town?

I left there in the late 80's and went back to Dallas, when the bottom fell out of the construction market. I was also playing in a band at nights and someone had worked out a Texas musician cultural exchange program with the Soviet Union, since Gorbachev's Glasnost was was dismantling the Soviet Union. The guy who fronted the band (Steve Parkess) was a dyed in the wool Socialist and I just didn't relish the idea of traveling around Russia and sleeping on people's floors. So I quit.

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True story. Now let's talk about your ass. Is it shapely?

 

[jbrownson0831]

JGalt

6th Street and Brazos
Bed, Bath and Beyond
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No shots of the clock tower?
I lived there in the late 90s early 2000s.
Go to Juan in a Millions for a breakfast taco.

 

[jbrownson0831]

What's with the garbage all over the sidewalk in that last pic? Actually Austin is a dumb city. If you don't believe me, go hang out on 6th street at 2 AM and see if you don't get your ass kicked or robbed. I lived there in the 80's, and it's not the same city it was back then.

But if you want to do something fun, go to the Capitol building and night and count how many of those big-ass Mexican cockroaches are crawling on the walls. Those things get about 2" long, so bring a flyswatter.

You are right about 6th Street.

 

[JGalt]

No shots of the clock tower?
I lived there in the late 90s early 2000s.
Go to Juan in a Millions for a breakfast taco.

Austin was livable back then, now it's one big city from Buda all the way up to Round Rock, from what I've heard. My wife's liberal nephew moved there from Wisconsin with his African wife and half&half kids a couple years ago. But they divorced shortly after moving there.

 

[Blaster]

Looks like you have found the democrats utopia

Austin is the armpit of Texas.

 

[TNHarley]

I was more interested in enjoying the new cityscape that I approached by bicycle from San Antonio a couple of days prior.

Ive only been to San Antonio. My gawd, what a beautiful city. At least the parts I seen. And the people were fun, too. I had a fucking blast.
Just wished I had more free time, as I was there for a work conference.

 

[marvin martian]

Austin was livable back then, now it's one big city from Buda all the way up to Round Rock, from what I've heard. My wife's liberal nephew moved there from Wisconsin with his African wife and half&half kids a couple years ago. But they divorced shortly after moving there.

I live close to Austin. It has pros and cons. It's definitely worse since the DemoKKKrats took over (of course). Thankfully, the state keeps the city in check somewhat, and blocks them from implementing some of the more destructive and insane policies they love.

Several times over the past few years, the state police have had to step in to do the Austin PD's job for them, since the DemoKKKrat-run city council hates cops and loves criminals.

 

[jbrownson0831]

Austin was livable back then, now it's one big city from Buda all the way up to Round Rock, from what I've heard. My wife's liberal nephew moved there from Wisconsin with his African wife and half&half kids a couple years ago. But they divorced shortly after moving there.

I worked for ITT Sheraton and would travel there and stay at the downtown Sheraton which backed up to 6th Street. We used to hang out down there to all hours but always in a pretty good sized group. When I moved there we lived in Round Rock and I got downtown far less. Some good memories of living there, bad ones too.

 

[$ecular#eckler]

Austin is the armpit of Texas.

Galveston is the armpit of the continent.

 

[$ecular#eckler]

No shots of the clock tower?

Not yet. I been through the campus, and I was only interested in the Johnson Library

I lived there in the late 90s early 2000s.
Go to Juan in a Millions for a breakfast taco.

Yeah, I've pedal by a couple of times, but I am on a budget until I find a job.

 

[bdtex]

I arrived in the evening of July 8 - Saturday Night.

I haven't been there in probably 3 years. I hear the traffic is worse now.

 

[Zincwarrior]

I arrived in the evening of July 8 - Saturday Night. I did not take many pictures that night - I was more interested in enjoying the new cityscape that I approached by bicycle from San Antonio a couple of days prior.
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It looked like this guy had a needle sticking out of his arm and he was sleeping in the kneeling position. He is across the street from the civic theater, and the sidewalk wraps around a huge lawn that is across the Colorado River from downtown Austin; and this is where Austin City Limits concerts are staged. It is a very picturesque cityscape.

The small building in the middle to the left are the offices of Silicon Labs, and then what is kind of hard to see is the City Hall, and then a parking garage with first-floor retail. All three buildings have the same stonework. It is obvious that Silicon Labs is the primary smart city planner for Austin.

Silicon Labs

Silicon Labs makes silicon, software and solutions for a more connected world.

www.silabs.com

https://www.2ndstreetdistrict.com/

And it appears that they built a neighborhood for tech company employees and municipal offices. Not a bad idea. This is a typical shop in the Silicon Labs neighborhood, and it seems to be getting ready for the Barbie Movie that will be at the cinema across the street.

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Almost didn't see it how they kind of hid the entrance in the middle of the block of first-floor retail stores.
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There are no McDonalds, BurgerKings, Popeyes, TacoBell, or any fast food national chain, in the downtown area, except.

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Interesting. A closed-on-Sunday conservative food shop is allowed in the liberal haven neighborhood of downtown Austin.
And that is a delivery robot. There are vehicle robots that patrol around the State Capitol Building at night. I don't have any pictures yet.

And there is a lot of building construction going on - huge buildings!
On the other side of downtown they are putting this giant spike into the ground!
View attachment 805794

The building to the right is an old housing project - and that will probably come down in a couple of decades. Yeah, you see; they don't show it in the architectural vision.

https://www.kxan.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2022/09/waterlinelookingeast.jpg?resize=876,438

Things are definitely building in Austin. Smart City.

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Notice Silicon Labs office building and City Hall in the background, again. This is the bathroom for the giant lawn.

You should go up and down 360 to Pennybacker bridge.