PROJECT BULLDOZER: 320,000 Austin Residents Living Within One Mile of Project Connect Construction Zone In Danger of Being Displaced This Decade

Project Connect is the biggest boondoggle in Austin history. 

Adam Loewy (Austin's most beloved billboard attorney) had a tweet this morning about the I-35 and Project Connect construction that went viral (22k views) on Austin twitter.

It wasn't Mr. Loewy's original tweet - but the reply from Michael Searle (founder of Austin-based, first-rate strategy firm Searle Strategies) - that seized my attention.

"Approximately 320,000 people and 135,000 housing units are located within one mile of Project Connect’s boundaries and are at risk for displacement “due to an inability to absorb housing costs,” city officials told KXAN."

Not a care in the world."

Austin is the 10th biggest city in the USA, with a population of nearly one million humans.

If 302,000 people and 135,000 housing units are in danger of being displaced in a city of 1 million, due to the unfortunate tragedy located within one mile of Project Connect’s boundaries

You don't gotta be Pythagoras to do the math on this one:

• 1,000,000 people divided by 302,000 people living within one mile of the Project Connect construction zone

• Equals 30.2% of Austin potentially displaced from their homes

QUESTIONS:

• How many of the 320,000 people living within one mile of Project Connect's construction path are relaxing tonight?

• How many are blissfully unaware that the horrifying nightmare of an armored bulldozer owned & operated by the city of Austin might arrive one morning this decade to destroy their home?

Screengrab from KXAN.com from Oct 25, 2023.

Even more terrifying:

You are relying on Austin elected officials, WFH sloths and the United States Postal Service to keep you posted on all the latest news and developments.

About the whole "government destroying your house with a bulldozer" thing.

Happy Halloween, suckers!

Screengrab from KXAN.com, snapped on Oct 25, 2023.

How many of these 320,000 Austinites (1 out of 3 people in the whole damn city, Euclid) will NOT be properly notified?

Due to the complex nature of the job being performed by government employees who've been "working from couch" every single month this decade except the very first two.

THINK ABOUT IT:

The Austin city government is in charge of masterminding THIS project?

Bwahahahahahahahahaha!

Wait it's not funny.

How many of the 320,000 people living within one mile of the Project Connect demolition path won't EVER receive notice?

Until they HEAR the sounds of the Project Connect destruction crew.

Just