Covering the highway after the main lanes are lowered would cost the university an estimated $400 million and create more than 17 new acres of campus.
Large UT buildings sit along both sides of I-35. On the west side are facilities like the Moody Events Center, Mike Myers Stadium and DKR Memorial Stadium. Facilities on the east side include UFCU Disch-Falk Field, Texas Tennis Center and McCombs Field.
Covering the sunken highway would create more than 17 acres of new campus space at ground level. UT facilities like UFCU Disch-Falk Field and DKR Texas Memorial Stadium would be separated by a six-lane frontage road instead of the giant highway trench planned through Central Austin. "It's a generational opportunity," Allen said, breaking UT's silence on the issue after months of repeated questioning from KUT News.show proposed caps over the highway shaded in orange. The top panel is from 15th Street to Clyde Littlefield Drive. The lower panel is from Clyde Littlefield to Dean Keeton Street. The pink lanes are the frontage roads at ground level.I-35 from Ben White Boulevard to U.S. 290 East. The $4.
TxDOT would design the highway with wider and deeper foundations to support the extra weight from caps. But the state agency says the city and UT have to pay for the extra structural support and other needed infrastructure like fire suppression, powerful fans and emergency escapes.
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