Boomtown: The Austin skyline transformation over the years | KVUE

[@SogMosee]

1:08 what a sad transition from a walkable pedestrian first city to a car obsessed urban sprawl

[@ilovekitteys]

Yeah as if you wanna walk outdoors in 105 degree weather with 105% humidity

[@cjthompson420]

A city that refuses to build a train system

[@charafnassor9169]

Wait there is a train system

[@KyVisuals]

​@@charafnassor9169train line, not system

[@ruckusbeblack]

@@charafnassor9169Nah there’s one rail line that stops running after 6pm and is doing the work of what should be 3 different lines. It’s awful.

[@LatinMessiah]

I was there earlier this year. It’s a beautiful city now.

[@kimward5746]

interesting! thank you! never heard of that capitol view plan. so cool.

[@dariusbrock2351]

With all of these new towers the density will go up quite a bit.

[@Brucev7]

UN Agenda 2050

[@cjthompson420]

With no public transport to support it. Austin is a mess

[@PlayaPotna1984]

Austin had a nice mid-sized skyline in the 80s, 90s & 00s. It has not had a decent new tall building since the Frost Bank Tower was built.

[@mentalrectangle]

I just want to telepathically make that guy clear his throat through the internet.

[@themovietheatre]

Toronto, TX !

[@sgtchief]

I welcome a much more denser Austin (and other larger US cities in general)

[@WakandaleezaRazz]

With no expanded roads or transit.

[@ajay.3000]

Me too, they were just need to work on a substantial upgrade on thee public transportation system.

[@Brucev7]

Actually, was just in the News a couple of days ago, the 'Tallest Building in Texas' was Turned Down. KLBJ 590/997 Proposed tallest skyscraper in Texas fails to receive approval - KVUE 2 days ago ... In an article from the Austin Business Journal (ABJ), the skyscraper's developer, Wilson Capital, failed to gain approval from the City of ...

[@3618499]

😲" According to news reports, It was just rejected due to design issues and lacking public interaction with the surroundings. Austin's STILL a red hot and diverse market, despite current Tech Industry woes. Unless the economics fail, I doubt the proposed Wilson skyscraper won't happen. "

[@tommoore2012]

@@3618499 very true. The Wilson Tower is still far from being cancelled.

[@baopham8676]

The Wilson tower did not get approval bc of the lack of retail space at street level in its design. I'm confident that the developer will make the right adjustment

[@AwesomeBabyBoomer]

Thankfully and rightfully so.

[@121476]

That’s a different building. The Waterline is slightly shorter but will also now be the tallest building in Texas

[@ericnewman254]

With all this room in Texas it makes no sense to build all these buildings on top of each other traffic is already horrendous in Austin especially I35

[@yorklovesrush]

Encouraging people to live in suburbs and become car dependant instead of living in dense walkable neighbourhoods certainly won’t help traffic

[@camadams9149]

That's why you build a rail system. It's insane that we don't already have one

[@MrJohnny5555]

My family move there in summer of 1966.

[@AwesomeBabyBoomer]

I was born here in 1963.

[@lfeb]

National instruments? Did he mean Texas instruments?

[@aqua.snipes]

Nope, he meant National Instruments

[@lfeb]

@@aqua.snipes interesting

[@aqua.snipes]

@@lfeb they make semiconductors I think

[@ajay.3000]

​@@aqua.snipesHave you HEARD of Texas Instruments? Because thays what is in Austin. Alrhough Texas has been the only state to be its own Nation, so...

[@aqua.snipes]

@@ajay.3000 I mean yes obviously I’ve heard of Texas Instruments, but they were clearly talking about National Instruments in the video

[@888ssss]

fiat currency town, followed by default town.

[@douglas2583]

What happened to boomtown lol

[@lfeb]

Sad, 30 more!?!?!!! 😢

[@AwesomeBabyBoomer]

I am a 59 year old native Austinite, and our skyline use to be pleasant to look at, but over the years, the city council has allowed our skyline to become uglier than sin. It is atrocious. It's horrible to look at, and whoever allowed some of these buildings to be built should be tarred, feathered, and run out a town on a rail.

[@mq827]

How dramatic. Austin has become a big city, that’s all it is. More people = more dense = more big buildings, not rocket science.

[@cjthompson420]

What made austin a joke is the lack of public transport actually. Capitol metro is a joke

[@adams8132]

Was just a hokey Texas town 40 years ago, now it’s a hokey Texas town with a lot of tall buildings.

[@ajay.3000]

Coning from a hokey hillbilly drinking some hokey moonshine

[@adams8132]

@@ajay.3000 Yeah, sure.