AUSTIN (KXAN) — Could Austin’s iconic Sixth Street open to two-way traffic?
The City of Austin highlighted the possibility in a Friday memo. Spokesperson Jack Flagler said the city’s goal is to make Sixth Street a safer and more connected part of downtown.
The memo included an analysis of Sixth Street, if it were to become two ways between Brazos Street and IH-35, plus a “6th Street Preliminary Engineering Report (PER).”
The city has begun preliminary engineering in order to understand right-of-way constraints, underground utilities, and to define future elements — like sidewalks, bike lanes and parking…