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One of a diminishing number of Healthy Streets on Avenue G in Austin s Hyde Park neighborhood. The city is slowly winding down the program.
A City of Austin program to reduce traffic on certain streets so people could walk, bike and run safely is slowly vanishing as the pandemic eases in the Austin area. City Council created the Healthy Streets Initiative early in the pandemic to establish more outdoor space for physical activity when gyms were closed and trails were crowded.
The city described the program as soft closures, typically in low-traffic areas. Sometimes traffic barriers would be set up on alternating sides of the street, forcing vehicles to drive more slowly as they zigzagged back and forth. In other cases, barricades with signs that read Road Closed Local Traffic Only were placed at intersections. On other streets, entire lanes were closed to cars and trucks.