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Panelists discuss size, shape of downtown caps proposed for I-35 expansion
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this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2024
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Building actual buildings on top is going to be crazy expensive. Yeah caps would be nice, but the cost is astronomical and the city needs to be paying for other more important things.
There’s also the annual cost of maintaining these caps. I’ve seen it quoted as $44 million a year. Austin does not need to be paying for that when it can’t even keep existing city roads paved and maintained.
https://communityimpact.com/austin/south-central-austin/transportation/2023/11/07/austin-lining-up-800m-plan-to-bridge-an-expanded-i-35/
Yeah there is actual machinery and utility usage involved. It is a nontrivial engineering problem even to keep them properly vented.