{"id":105258,"date":"2025-12-30T19:28:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T19:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/105258\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T19:28:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T19:28:13","slug":"austin-staff-make-recommendation-for-sixth-street-redesign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/105258\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin staff make recommendation for Sixth Street redesign"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCity of Austin staff have chosen their recommendation for the redesign of Sixth Street after seeking community feedback on three different options<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Latest update<\/p>\n

Staff are recommending Alternative 3, which includes no bicycle or scooter lanes with vehicle curb access for drop-off and loading on one side.<\/p>\n

This option saw 47% of survey respondents<\/a> marking it as \u201cstrongly do not support.\u201d According to a news release, it was recommended due to wide sidewalks which would support \u201cbusiness vitality\u201d and allow for \u201cheavy foot traffic, particularly during peak nightlife hours.\u201d<\/p>\n

Residents can view all three alternatives considered by city staff and public feedback on each online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The background<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, city officials sought feedback on three design alternatives for the nine-block stretch of Sixth Street west of I-35, as part of a focus on safety and redevelopment of the entertainment corridor.<\/p>\n

Each option laid out different ideas for bike and scooter lanes, sidewalks and curb space, but all would keep Sixth Street as a one-way street heading west. The main goal in every option is to make more room for pedestrians and allow curbside access for drop-offs and vehicle parking, while keeping cars moving, as previously reported<\/a> by Community Impact.<\/p>\n

Under the city\u2019s Great Streets<\/a> program, the project aims to boost downtown\u2019s livability, safety and aesthetics by creating \u201cstreets for people\u201d with expanded pedestrian space and improving streetscape standards, a city update states. Funding<\/a> for Great Streets is generated through the Great Streets Parking Meter Fund and the Downtown Density Bonus Program, as previously reported<\/a> by Community Impact.<\/p>\n

Next steps<\/p>\n

City staff outlined the following next steps in the release:<\/p>\n

Release the Sixth Street Preliminary Engineering Study in early 2026Look to add east-west bike lanes on other downtown streets for a bicycle networkInitiate the design process in early 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City of Austin staff have chosen their recommendation for the redesign of Sixth Street after seeking community feedback…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[47548,132,134,133,2143,9259,17090,2454,27,840],"class_list":["post-105258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-6th-street","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-central-texas","tag-downtown-austin","tag-redevelopment","tag-sixth-street","tag-texas","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}