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SH 45 SW still on representative's radar

Workman, who recently spoke at a meeting of the Oak Hill Business and Professionals Association (OHBPA), said: "I'm working on State Highway 45 Southwest. I am still working on that. There was a meeting with Travis County, Hays County, TxDOT [Texas Department of Transportation], CTRMA [Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority], and I met earlier in session about getting it done. We are still working on that. We still have a hurdle with the local county commissioner, but we're going to keep trying to get SH 45 built and I'm confident that eventually we'll get it done." A little background: State Highway 45 was envisioned in 1985 as an 84-mile loop encircling Austin. According to a 1989 Texas Department of Highways and Public Transportation Environmental Impact Statement: "Most of the proposed facility would be built ultimately as a freeway composed of limited access roadway with full grade separation at interchanges. ... Approximately one-fourth of the proposed highway, located in the southwest quadrant of the Austin area, would be constructed as a parkway with controlled access in consideration of the environmental amenities in that area." In nearly two decades since an agreement between environmentalists and transportation officials was signed, only a portion of SH 45 SW has been built. Missing is the segment joining FM 1626 to Loop 1. Local residents say ever-increasing commuter traffic from northern Hays County to Austin has made Brodie Lane between FM 1626 and Slaughter Lane a congested and dangerous route during rush hour. Many Hays County commuters take FM 1626 to Brodie to Slaughter to Loop 1 on their way to downtown Austin. Two years later the roadway is barely a gleam in TxDOT's eye, and Brodie Lane residents are getting tired of the wait. Travis County Commissioner Karen Huber, the local county commissioner Workman spoke of, initially supported the roadway, but then convinced her fellow county commissioners to withdraw support for a roadway she did not believe should be a priority. Vikki Goodwin, the traffic chair for the Shady Hollow Home Owners Association, told the Gazette: "The traffic load on Brodie through this area is just about unbearable at times. The bottleneck at Slaughter and Brodie from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. daily is a nightmare, which is only going to get much worse when the apartments at Slaughter and Brodie are completed in 2012.

June 27, 2011 / Day 2 for Troop 1 from St Helena, CA : Liveaboard ...

Pop tarts and cereal are how we often start the day on the Conch Pearl.  Sea Base sets the menu and provisions the boats—I am not to blame!  And that is how this day began.  The menu is designed for easy preparations and mass appeal (to teenagers, woe to us old farts).  Everything tastes better out on the water anyway, so there is little complaint about the food aboard from our guests.  Tim has said this many times in the day he has been aboard.  Unlike other high adventure experiences, this is not the one where your fellas will come home having lost weight!

After breakfast we hoisted sails and departed our mooring ball off Fleming Key.  Last night was pretty uneventful, considering what the radar looked like before we went to bed.  We headed out to the reef line south of Key West.  Winds were SE around 15kts, so a little bouncy.  By the time we made the reef,we had one guy succumbing to seasickness. Mitchell ended up sitting out the first dive at Eastern Dry Rocks because he just felt too queasy.  Unfortunately the bonine wasn’t working.  He was looking a little pasty.  Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day for him, maybe someone will find some Dramamine for him to try.  Visibility was around 30ft, not awe-inspiring, but not bad, either.  And did I mention the water here is warm?…

We had lunch on the way to Sand Key Lighthouse, which is west of the previous site.  Our favorite mooring ball there has a huge boulder coral nearby, in about 30 ft of water.  The guys liked the spot very much.  Will gets the enthusiasm award for the week, so far (though closely followed by Tim).  As he comes up the ladder after a dive, Will seems to always spit out his regulator to tell us about his wildlife sightings!  It does my heart good to see guys enjoy themselves so much!  We did a third dive on another ball at Sand Key then motorsailed back into Fleming Key anchorage.  By 5:30 we were tied up, and the kids were itching to go swimming—though it was more really jumping, diving, and the occasional belly flopping!  Priceless!  Even the adult leaders got in on the action!  After they began to run out of steam, bait fishing became the activity of choice—a little less physical effort involved.  But still, they fished with enthusiasm, just less splashing!  All in all, it was a good day.

And our crew leader, who has heard me rant on “washing dishes—the lost art”, outed himself to me this evening.  Apparently he works part time at a catering job, so he is pretty good at cooking and clean-up!  He was very kind in not withholding this information until the last day!  So, Chris, I’ll have high expectations of you this week!  Actually, my expectations are usually pretty low, because often I must ensure that the galley crew washes their hands—it’s not an automatic reaction to showing up to handle food.  Usually I give a little lesson on how to use a can opener (not the fancy “no sharp edges” opener my Mom and Dad sent me to keep scout fingers safe—that one is WAY TOO complicated).  Often I stand guard against keeping the dish towel safe and sanitary—“no, it is not for wiping your brow as you stand befuddled with the confusing can opener!”  As I said in a post last week, my standards are not high!  But I do try my best to convince the scouts every week that knowing your way around a kitchen will only do you good in life, and besides “girls like it” when a guy can cook.  Makes a fella downright irresistible, right?!?!?

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