TP, "The worst traffic anywhere near Austin is the stretch between Hector Ruiz' house in Lakeway and the current AMD site. He is determined to have an office near his home. He feels AMD owes it to him."
Listen up man, could you stop disseminate outrageous misinformation? It is starting to step on nerves. If you have no clue, just stop it.
Lakeway is 20 miles west from Austin, and Hector does not live there, he lives on Barton Creek Boulevard, close to L360. Loop 360 is not the worst traffic place, quite contrary, the worst is I35 and Mopac. However, the last stretch of HWY 71 East (where AMD is located) is experiencing more and more increased traffic due to becoming the main access road to Austin International Airport, even if this section was vastly improved over last few years, including overpass on intersection with Interstate 35. This most congested section is about a 2-mile path from that intersection.
If you know the Austin geography (but it looks that you don't), no engineers live in East Austin, all of them live in NW, W, or SW areas, all on the _other_ side of the congested HWY-71 section. Therefore, moving the engineering quarters to the West side of I35 would vastly reduce commute time for most of them.
"executives quit going to the plants and summoned managers"
In the age of electronic mail, teleconferencing, and wireless phones, executives do not need to go to plants, especially if it is a clean sealed environment of a semiconductor fab. It is much more productive for an executive to have a good window view rather than have international air traffic going over the roof of their offices.
- Ali |
