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- Harvard scores papers related to Norman Mailer's sex life three years after the author sold his official archives to UT.
- Yo-Yo Ma will play with the Austin Symphony later this year; maybe some of the parking issues evident this Sunday will have been dealt with by then.
- Burnet Road Farmer's Market land for sale (again).
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- Infant asphyxiation deaths at an increase this year in Travis County, Austin's Center for Child Protection reports.
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Oh that's hilarious. People couldn't get to the opera because everyone from the reggae fest used their spots? Man oh man. I don't know what's funnier - that the hippies at the reggae fest couldn't figure out the bus schedule or that the opera patrons missed their show because of poor city planning.
All of them just need to take the damn bus. I'd love to see some old fart in a tux on the bus going to the opera. That would make my night.
I read in the Statesman (I think) on Tuesday that there were free shuttles from the convention center parking garage, but only like 100-something people took advantage of them. Maybe the shuttles weren't publicized enough ahead of time? Or maybe people just assumed they wouldn't need to worry with them?
I went to Auditorium Shores for the concerts at SXSW and it looked like there was no parking. I can't understand for the life of me why they didn't recognize this problem sooner.
Free shuttles when everybody else is driving to the parking garage are worthless (the bus is just stuck in the same traffic your car would have been, except worse).
Free shuttles aren't completely useless. Remember, that pretty much every person a shuttle is one less person on the road. It may see imperceptable, but it's probably a real impact (even if the bus still gets stuck in gridlock).
That said, the long center should probably have Shuttle Buses going to Barton Creek Mall instead.