Who remembers when the “San Austinio” megalopolis didn’t exist? (San Antonio: house, college)

[Need4Camaro]

Originally Posted by NBTX11

Point taken, however two minor points, Austin and San Antonio are closer together than Chicago and Milwaukee by about 15 miles, and secondly, there is more open space between Chicago and Milwaukee, especially on the Wisconsin side and the Wisconsin side is growing much slower than South Central Texas.

That part is true.. ..I still feel its a long shot at best overall though, if it did happen I sure hope they're ready to build more highways, that will be a major hurdle in that region. Imagine MoPac extending all the way to 1604

[citidata18]

Originally Posted by NBTX11

Point taken, however two minor points, Austin and San Antonio are closer together than Chicago and Milwaukee by about 15 miles, and secondly, there is more open space between Chicago and Milwaukee, especially on the Wisconsin side and the Wisconsin side is growing much slower than South Central Texas.

I'd say it's more like Cincinnati-Dayton along I-75 than Chicago-Milwaukee.

Granted, the Austin-San Antonio corridor is probably 10-20 years behind where Cincinnati-Dayton is now.

[NigerianNightmare]

If Austin keeps growing like it's going and San Antonio continues to expand North (I eventually expect the Southern portion to fill out.
Temple-Killeen is also growing at a decent 6,000 a year clip.
We could see a potential I-35 corridor by 2040 of.
McLennan- 318,000
Bell- 502,000
Williamson- 1,100,000
Travis- 1,729,000
Caldwell- 160,000
Hays- 540,000
Comal- 387,000
Guadalupe County- 312,000
Bexar- 2,600,000

Take in mind this is with growth rates continuing to decrease in every county, largely due to the aging American population, slowing growth.

This SA-Austin-Killeen-Waco-Round Rock corridor would have
7.8 million people along the corridor, maybe 8.3 million in both MSAs + Waco + Temple. Houston and Dallas would both be at the cusp of 10,000,000 and still bigger than the corridor.

[rynetwo]

Originally Posted by NigerianNightmare

If Austin keeps growing like it's going and San Antonio continues to expand North (I eventually expect the Southern portion to fill out.
Temple-Killeen is also growing at a decent 6,000 a year clip.
We could see a potential I-35 corridor by 2040 of.
McLennan- 318,000
Bell- 502,000
Williamson- 1,100,000
Travis- 1,729,000
Caldwell- 160,000
Hays- 540,000
Comal- 387,000
Guadalupe County- 312,000
Bexar- 2,600,000

Take in mind this is with growth rates continuing to decrease in every county, largely due to the aging American population, slowing growth.

This SA-Austin-Killeen-Waco-Round Rock corridor would have
7.8 million people along the corridor, maybe 8.3 million in both MSAs + Waco + Temple. Houston and Dallas would both be at the cusp of 10,000,000 and still bigger than the corridor.

According to the estimates out yesterday, Dallas and Houston metros have 14,848,616 combined growing at 210,000 a year.

While the other group comes in at 5,631,493 growing by 117,213. The only two places with growth in this group is San Antonio and Austin.

As of 7/1/2020

1. Dallas 7,694,138
2. Houston 7,154,478
3. San Antonio 2,590,732
4. Austin 2,295,303

[ashbeeigh]

Originally Posted by Need4Camaro

In order for SATX / Austin to become a CSA, 15% of commuters from either metro will have to travel to either metro regularly for work and I personally don’t see that coming to past either.

Just wait until the norm is people moving to San Marcos and driving to Leander because of the views. There's been a few threads like that in the last year.

[yadigggski]

Originally Posted by NBTX11

And just like that, 6,000 more houses and a major development project going in around Kohlenburg road in New Braunfels, filling in the last empty place between Austin and San Antonio.

Large development eyes New Braunfels area | Community Alert | herald-zeitung.com

and there we go

[NBTX11]

Originally Posted by citidata18

I'd say it's more like Cincinnati-Dayton along I-75 than Chicago-Milwaukee.

Granted, the Austin-San Antonio corridor is probably 10-20 years behind where Cincinnati-Dayton is now.

San Antonio-Austin is much, MUCH bigger than Cincinnati-Dayton. Dayton is tiny in comparison to either San Antonio or Austin.

[citidata18]

Originally Posted by NBTX11

San Antonio-Austin is much, MUCH bigger than Cincinnati-Dayton. Dayton is tiny in comparison to either San Antonio or Austin.

I meant in terms of similar development patterns between the two cities, not size.

But if we're going to nitpick size, we can also say the Milwaukee-Chicago corridor is much MUCH bigger than San Antonio-Austin corridor, and thus is also not a good comparison.

[Need4Camaro]

Originally Posted by citidata18

I meant in terms of similar development patterns between the two cities, not size.

But if we're going to nitpick size, we can also say the Milwaukee-Chicago corridor is much MUCH bigger than San Antonio-Austin corridor, and thus is also not a good comparison.

True, but I was also inferring development patterns between the two and not the actual sizes of the metro's themselves. Infact it would actually strengthen my point given those are much larger metro's which developed and matured much earlier in history but the development between the two never matured to a CSA...although it still feels suburban & exhurban between the two along I-94 until you go too far west of it.

[Suesbal]

Do people who inhabited towns along the I-35 corridor in the pre-sprawl era complain about the changing character of their towns?