Houston has an unground tunnel system that links a lot of the skyscrapers for foot traffic. Austin should be doing this with the Boring Company. It could remove a lot of traffic on the surface street’s downtown. And help with safety.
@@gottawatch1932 oooooh I like that idea my friend! Interesting. I live in Houston those tunnels are cool. Personally I always thought an underground subway line running Lamar across the city would be amazing. Austin refuses to budge.
There was opportunity for a light rail to be built back when Austin had half the population it does now. But the 50/50 vote in 2000 set the city back decades.
Wow. 2013-2016 was intense in terms of how much of the downtown area was filled with mid to high rise buildings. Good luck with the traffic- like California, I’m sure they didn’t grow infrastructure commensurately with explosive metropolitan area growth.
The only way that will happen is if both Houston and Dallas stand still for the next 20 years and that’s not going to happen. Both Dallas and Houston have been adding a lot of infill in recent years, but haven’t put up anything super tall for a long time. This happens through a cities lifetime. Austin during that time caught it’s growth spurt downtown, but as Houston and Dallas already know, those things don’t last forever. The two much larger cities will go through another building boom of there own soon and it won’t be even close! It’s still not close now. Last but not least, Dallas and Ft worth have two skylines and a third and 4th is developing in Addison ad Frisco/Plano. Austin is cute, but it won’t be catching up in our lifetime!
@@Aggie4life77 Most definitely alot of infill going on in Dallas. This TH-cam video show a lot of the infill in Uptown, making the skyline longer. Hopefully, once the NorthEnd (Goldman Sachs) development gets going, it’ll add some much needed height to Uptown. th-cam.com/video/DdhGh4CoEqw/w-d-xo.html
It is from the scenic overlook at Barton Creek Mall, I originally took video from there to test new cameras from public access TV and I just kept the footage…then around 2016 I figured I would put them together in a compilation.
Incredible growth!!! Not in quantity but also height. I wonder how will it look in another few years. I live in Miami and we have had a similar boom in growth in the amount of high rises. Since 2005 that I moved to Miami to today the skyline is unrecognizable. Austin's skyline is sexy and varied. I like it!!!
@@WakandaleezaRazz lol your skyline is short, boxy and small. I can think of a few cities with better, more aesthetically pleasing skylines than Houston and that’s not even counting the big boys. Both Austin and Dallas are going to be better than Houston. Dallas is already there, not by height but by architecture. Be proud of the space station or something else but skylines is not it. Isn’t your tallest building only a couple of feet above 1,000? 😂😂
@@cjthompson420 yes every Houston booster says the same thing…”we have 6 skylines blah blah blah”…even if you combine all of your skylines which are a bunch of shorter, mid rise buildings at best, Houston would have a unimpressive skyline. I’m not from Austin. Not even from Texas. I have no horse in this race or any bias for one city over the other and that’s why I can conclude what many others already have. Austin will surpass Houston as far as skyline ranking pretty soon.
Then there's Detroit with the SAME skyline since 1993
The same thing is happening in Nashville, Tennessee it’s booming and building like crazy. I love it!
Austin didn’t plan for growth. Population has doubled since I was a kid. Still same old 2-3 lane roads. And they wonder why they have traffic issues
Houston has an unground tunnel system that links a lot of the skyscrapers for foot traffic. Austin should be doing this with the Boring Company.
It could remove a lot of traffic on the surface street’s downtown. And help with safety.
@@gottawatch1932 oooooh I like that idea my friend! Interesting. I live in Houston those tunnels are cool. Personally I always thought an underground subway line running Lamar across the city would be amazing. Austin refuses to budge.
There was opportunity for a light rail to be built back when Austin had half the population it does now. But the 50/50 vote in 2000 set the city back decades.
Love these videos
I honestly like the 2013 skyline, it is very simple and not a lot of tall buildings.
Thanks for the video can't wait for the next upload
Wow. 2013-2016 was intense in terms of how much of the downtown area was filled with mid to high rise buildings. Good luck with the traffic- like California, I’m sure they didn’t grow infrastructure commensurately with explosive metropolitan area growth.
Jesus I thought I was just misremembering that the frost building was the tallest building when I moved to Austin.
Love how the skyline is bulking up and stretching!
Austin is going to catch up to Dallas and Houston in the skyscraper game
That’s highly unlikely, especially in Houston’s case
The only way that will happen is if both Houston and Dallas stand still for the next 20 years and that’s not going to happen. Both Dallas and Houston have been adding a lot of infill in recent years, but haven’t put up anything super tall for a long time. This happens through a cities lifetime. Austin during that time caught it’s growth spurt downtown, but as Houston and Dallas already know, those things don’t last forever. The two much larger cities will go through another building boom of there own soon and it won’t be even close! It’s still not close now. Last but not least, Dallas and Ft worth have two skylines and a third and 4th is developing in Addison ad Frisco/Plano. Austin is cute, but it won’t be catching up in our lifetime!
@@Aggie4life77 Most definitely alot of infill going on in Dallas.
This TH-cam video show a lot of the infill in Uptown, making the skyline longer. Hopefully, once the NorthEnd (Goldman Sachs) development gets going, it’ll add some much needed height to Uptown.
th-cam.com/video/DdhGh4CoEqw/w-d-xo.html
I like this skyline better than Dallas.
Same thing is happening to Houston's TMC ..with addition of TMC 3 ..
Austin's ever changing skyline. In 5 more years, Austin will look unrecognizable again
Insanely cool
Why cant my city learn
Are you filming from your home since 2021? :o if so thats bad ass
It is from the scenic overlook at Barton Creek Mall, I originally took video from there to test new cameras from public access TV and I just kept the footage…then around 2016 I figured I would put them together in a compilation.
I want to move Austin
No you don’t
@@Metalmirq But why not?
Most overrated city in America
Incredible growth!!! Not in quantity but also height. I wonder how will it look in another few years. I live in Miami and we have had a similar boom in growth in the amount of high rises. Since 2005 that I moved to Miami to today the skyline is unrecognizable. Austin's skyline is sexy and varied. I like it!!!
Turning into a liberal hellhole. Glad I moved away 20 years ago. Thanks California for ruining another former charming city.
I think development in downtown Austin should slow down, as a way to preserve its small town feel.
Austin lost its small town feel a long time ago. I lived there 15 years ago and even then there were very noticeable changes.
Yeah Austin has not had a decent new tall building since Frost Bank Tower opened up in 2004.
Austin’s skyline is already better than Houston’s. It will blow Houston out of the water completely in 2-3 years.
We have 7/10 of Texas’ tallest towers. Good luck with that. Y’all can’t even build roads without tolls
@@WakandaleezaRazz lol your skyline is short, boxy and small. I can think of a few cities with better, more aesthetically pleasing skylines than Houston and that’s not even counting the big boys. Both Austin and Dallas are going to be better than Houston. Dallas is already there, not by height but by architecture. Be proud of the space station or something else but skylines is not it. Isn’t your tallest building only a couple of feet above 1,000? 😂😂
@@chicity78”and small” we have 5 skylines. And Austin doesn’t even have one building over 1000 ft. Your skyline is a joke. Nice try
@@cjthompson420 yes every Houston booster says the same thing…”we have 6 skylines blah blah blah”…even if you combine all of your skylines which are a bunch of shorter, mid rise buildings at best, Houston would have a unimpressive skyline. I’m not from Austin. Not even from Texas. I have no horse in this race or any bias for one city over the other and that’s why I can conclude what many others already have. Austin will surpass Houston as far as skyline ranking pretty soon.
@@chicity78 lmao you’re still crying? Is it your narrow highways and lack of public transport?