1. Credentials Bruce Melton, P.E. Texas A&M 1983 Diversified experience: Environmental, land development and hydrology Haynie & Kallman 1984: Land Development, Staff Engineer Jones & Neuse 1986: Land Development, Staff Engineer Lower Colorado River Authority Environmental Program 1990: Staff Engineer, Environmental Coordinator; Principal Investigator, Permit Writer Bury Partners 1996: Project Manager Loomis Austin 1998: Senior Project Manager Melton Engineering Services Austin 2001: Owner

2. Planning What is really in the middle of the road?

3. Major Concerns 1. TxDOT Traffic Counts show that, about the turn of the Century, on average, regional traffic stopped growing. 2. Is projecting past growth patterns into the future appropriate planning?

4. TXDOT Traffic Counts Regional Average Growth

5. I35 Segments + Average

6. Mopac Segments

7. Campo Needs Inset Source: CAMPO Needs Assessment, February 2009

8. TxDOT Data - Regional Traffic Growth Superimposed

9. Brookings Institute Study

10. Why Has Traffic Growth Ceased While Population Continues to Grow? Two bread winner family phenomena has maxed out Aging population / birth rate trends Economic concerns over the last decade of reduced earnings power

11. Younger Areas Age Faster

12. Long Term Economics Purchasing power has diminished Wages are not keeping up Inflation continues Not related to the current economic distress TxDOT traffic data ended before the recession

13. CAMPO 2030 is significantly disconnected from actual traffic counts. Because traffic growth patterns have changed fundamentally. Traffic will never grow like this again.

14. South and Southwest Austin Business as Usual is No Longer Valid

15. 290W Oak Hill

16. FM 1626 N of SH45

17. FM 1626 S of SH45

18. Huge Gap

19. Brodie Projections 2015 Traffic on Brodie would be worse when SH45 opens than it is today. (TxDOT Traffic Counts and CAMPO 2030 Plan)

20. Alternatives Traffic on Brodie is bad and must be addressed

21. Brodie Traffic Projections 2015

22. SH45 Trans Alternatives

23. Hays County Bonds

24. I35 Route Without Flyover

25. Brodie route takes more time compared to IH35 route without the flyover

26. Acquired Preserve Lands

27. Peak Hour Traffic Management 1.Reduce Peak Hour traffic 2.Telecommute 3.Flexible working hours 4.Demographic shift 5.New bus routes 6.More park and ride 7.Commuter rail

28. New Discoveries about the Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer

29. Nicos D Title Page

30. The final paragraph of the conclusions for the methodology section

32. The previously reported assumption of uplands recharge by Woodruff, 1984 was 1%

33. From Nicos Dissertation

34. 381 karst features

35. Groundwater flow in the Northern Edwards Aquifer Note the locations of Barton, Slaughter, Onion and Bear Creeks and the intersection of the existing SH45 and MOPAC

36. Plan ahead

42. CAMPO memo to Council woman Kim October 2007