The latest plan is erasing the 53rd St. exit and creating a Broadmoor extension that will direct traffic right into residential narrow streets in Windsor Park. In other words, several of us residents on Broadmoor and Westmoor Dr. are pretty upset about these proposed changes. We just concluded a third meeting that included the city of Austin only to conclude that there will be no speed management additions in the neighborhood because there is no budget for such. TxDOT also stated that they have no additional funds to help the city with this increased volume of traffic that will be directed to Windsor Park with this Broadmoor extension. Our corner of Windsor Park will become the de facto entrance. We can only speculate the new volume of pass thru traffic that will occur once the extension is completed.

I am curious to know why the 51st St. exit was removed in the first place? It seems like it was removed to maximize the square footage of the big box stores that are adjacent to Barbara Jordan jughandle. It makes sense that Catalus would want a steady stream of potential customers passing in between two big box retailers like Best Buy and Home Depot. It seems suspicious that traffic was rerouted through a retail area instead of giving drivers the ability to connect to a major east -west arterial 51 St. We have asked TXDOT and have yet to receive any response.

Thank you for this article that you wrote. Your research been very helpful in demonstrating the poor decisions and evolution of this section of I 35 and 51st St from TxDOT.

We are actively looking for ways to push back against this proposed Broadmoor extension. If you have any advice, I would appreciate any information that you may have.

Thank you,
Alan