February 24, 2026
Williams Drive Will Not Be Fixed Before You Die
From: Gridlocked in Georgetown Village
I have sat in traffic on Williams Drive every single morning for three years. I leave at 7:15, I try 7:00, I try 6:45 — it doesn't matter. By the time I get to 35 I want to drive into the sun. I've emailed the city twice. Nothing happens. Is there anything I can do, or am I just stuck?
You’re stuck. I’ll save you the false hope: Williams Drive has been a problem since before half those subdivisions existed, and the city knows it, and it moves at the speed of city. That road is not getting fixed before the next election, or the one after that.
So here’s what you do. You stop fighting the thing you cannot change and you change what you can.
First: take FM 971 or Inner Loop when you can. It adds three minutes on paper and saves ten in practice. Not every day, but enough. Learn the alternates the way you know your own backyard.
Second: use the time. I’ve had customers come in here who listened to every audiobook in the library during their commute. One man learned Spanish in a year and a half on 35. You’ve got thirty minutes, maybe more. That’s not nothing. That’s a class. That’s a book. That’s a podcast that makes you smarter or at least entertained.
Third: stop leaving at 7:15 and calling it 6:45. Those are the same traffic window and you know it. Try 6:15 for two weeks and see what happens.
The road’s not moving. You might as well.
— Vera
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