umar59•22d ago

Steel deliveries at dawn in downtown Austin are a mess and I'm tired of it

I was down at the 4th and Colorado site last Wednesday around 6:30 AM for a morning walkthrough and saw three flatbeds lined up on the curb waiting for a gap in traffic. One driver had been sitting there since 5 AM because the city won't let us stage around the corner anymore. The cops moved him twice. Meanwhile the crane crew was burning time because the beams showed up 40 minutes late and the tower crane slot was already booked for another job. Everyone keeps saying early morning drops are the fix for downtown congestion but nobody talks about the parking enforcement or the lack of a holding zone. My last two projects in the same area had the same exact issue. Has anyone found a way to coordinate with the city's loading zone permits to actually hold a spot for more than 15 minutes, or are we all just playing roulette with the meter maids?

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cameronf8822d ago

Man, sounds like standard Monday morning chaos to me.

morgan_bailey9320d ago

Yeah @cameronf88, Mondays hit different for sure. Can barely get the coffee going before everything falls apart.